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    Bikepacking SWITZERLAND: Most Beautiful Cycling Route EVER!?



    Bikepacking in Switzerland feels like living in a postcard. Mountains, wildflowers, beautiful wooden homes… it’s absolutely dreamy. But sometimes you have to pay for the beautiful views in more ways than one! Come along on our Switzerland bike touring adventure through the Alps. This just might be my favourite bikepacking route ever.

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    1. Daniel Earlester on

      I think concrete buildings are there because the Swiss like their flying cars to avoid all the twisty, turny roads and climbs but they could also be nuclear bunkers since lots of Swiss houses have them as a throw back from the Cold War and Switzerland's pacifism.

    8. Hermann Kerr on

      I have friends in Switzerland. Last time I was there the people really impressed me with their kindness and helpfulness. Unfortunately I have never cycled there. If one wants, it is easy to mix cycling and train riding in Switzerland and likewise in a lot of Europe. I got delayed on tour when my trike was stolen in Hamburg, so I custom ordered a new trike built to my exact specs to make some good out of the bad. Further it wasn't to bad as I went to Luxembourg and borrowed a friend's trike (I originally met him in New Zealand) and cycle all over the country while his brother put me up for nearly a week. My time there, besides cycling, included shopping as I had lost everything, a bit of kayaking and a medieval fair. Thus to put me back on my schedule, I used a train to make up for about 5-6 days by taking a train from Bremen to Koblenz (the bike train-car was booked when I left Hamburg as there was a big race going on in Hamburg at that time). When I made it to Wasserbillig, as it was my 65 birthday, I took my friend and his parents (the bother was otherwise occupied) out for a posh dinner. Some of my friends in Switzerland found my tour blog and asked me to come down and stay with them but I felt it was just to far south as Luxembourg was about as far south as I was heading now up to Scotland to see some old friends and make some new ones. As I get older I look upon cheating by using trains an busses, as a good thing. Your post makes me go back to Switzerland and do some cycling..

    11. Daniel Düsentrieb Junior on

      Those bunkers were used for parking warplanes. They are no longer used for this purpose. You did national route 9, didn't you? I live in Switzerland, and I appreciate the beauty of my homeland. However, next week I will start an eBike tour through the French alps. It starts in Thonon les Bains at lake Geneva and follows the Petite Route du Soleil via Annecy, Grenoble and further on to Nice, all along the western edge of the French alps. From Nice I will follow the coast to Menton and from there move back into the alps. This route is called Grande Route des Alpes and crosses several high passes, some of which are also crossed at the Tour de France. The route passes by at Chamonix/Mont Blanc and ends at the same start at Lake Geneva. It is alltogether about 1'600 kilometres.

    21. Tracey McNeel on

      Maybe you two could think about e-touring…you use half the energy consumption of a non-electric bike. All you would have to be concerned about is finding an electrical port to charge the batteries when they become depleted. (lots go dual battery for longer bike riding distance range).

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