snow – Ashatta

Five Lake Hike at Pizol

05/07/2020 03/10/2020

Did you ever feel like there are just too many cool places on Earth and struggle to fit as many as possible into a single vacation? Good news! With this 4-hour hike you will not only visit Switzerland, but also (kind of) Norway and (almost) Iceland 🙂

This post is about one of the best hikes in Switzerland – Pizol “5-Seen Wanderung”, or Five Lake Hike. Great accessibility, a challenging ascent, and mind-blowing landscapes – everything you ever wanted from a hiking day trip!

Matterhorn – the Kingdom of Ice and Snow

28/05/2018 31/05/2020

Last time I wrote that we have no snow in Zurich, and now we finally found out where is all that snow that is meant for us =)

To learn that, we had to travel 4 hours by train from Zurich to the very border of Italy, to an area containing a large number of 4000-meter high Alpine peaks. Our goal was Matterhorn – this perfect Swiss mountain. If you have ever had Toblerone – this is exactly the peak printed on the pack! It has also inspired Toblerone’s triangle shape. Check out the similarity:

Snow in Switzerland

10/01/2018 14/01/2018

In December we had snow. Roads and trees were covered with a thin layer of snow for two weeks. Switzerland was not ready for this. Rare snow is one of those few cases when the Swiss punctuality fails.