The hills roll rather than rise, the fields seem drawn rather than planted, and the villages lie low in the landscape as if placed there by instinct. This is not a place of grandeur, but of quiet ...

Experience Seealpsee, the jewel of the Alpstein mountains in Switzerland’s Appenzell region. Famous for its emerald waters and the iconic view of boats floating beneath towering peaks, this alpine ...

So long as Appenzell was a land of herdsmen, many peculiarities of costume, features, and manners must have remained. For a long time, however, Outer-Rhoden, as this part of the Canton is called, ...

The Swiss alpine region of Appenzell is achingly beautiful – and haunted by loneliness so palpable, it has inspired one of the world’s saddest, most beautiful forms of music. Portugal has its ...

The tiny Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden has voted to prohibit the phenomenon of naked hiking. Anyone found wandering the Alps wearing nothing but a sturdy pair of hiking boots will now be fined ...

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I’m high in the Swiss Alps in a tiny mountain hut on a perch called Ebenalp. Here, a spry grandpa in a sweater as worn as his face pulls a wide-eyed child onto his lap to teach him to drum with old ...