ローンシュトルフの天然記念物・トップ16

Lake Gerzensee is privately owned. It's not possible to walk around it. From Kirchdorf, there's a dirt road that leads to a wonderful seating area.

Lake Gerzen is a lake located between the villages of Gerzensee, Mühledorf, and Kirchdorf in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its water level is at an average elevation of 603 meters above sea level. At normal water levels, the lake is approximately 8.5 meters deep on average and reaches a maximum of 11 meters deep, and has a surface area of 0.25 km², making it one of the medium-sized pre-Alpine lakes in Switzerland.

Beautiful barbecue spot at Blauseeli in Uttigen

This lake is also a little jewel against the backdrop of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, but also the majestic Stockhorn chain. On the lakeshore, the Grizzlybär restaurant with a small animal park and large playground for kids invites you to linger.

To describe the hike as moderate is "exaggerated". The term light is more appropriate. You always walk along the Glütschbach, which flows from Reutigen to Uttigen and there into the Aare. What many people don't know is that the Glütschbach is the old course of the Kander river before the Kander was diverted into Lake Thun with a puncture at the beginning of the 18th century, which in turn caused many floods in Thun. In any case, the hike through Glütschbachtäli is pure relaxation - except that the noise from the motorway is a bit disturbing. If you start in Allmendingen, you can easily hike to Hani. Since the flow speed of the creek is very low, children can play safely on and in the creek and launch their own boats (tree bark and pieces of wood). If you are lucky, you can watch the beaver below the stalactite caves as they cut down trees, strengthen their dams and expand their castle more and more.

Railway bridge over the Aare on the Bern - Thun route, near Uttigen. Below her is the Uttigerwelle, which is notorious among the "Aareböötler". This has capsized many a rubber boat and caused an unwanted cooling.

This small groundwater lake is a rocky desert in winter and a bathing lake in summer. It lies between the Aare and Uttigen, in a nature reserve, which is why it is also called "Uttigenseeli".

When there's water...' (usually in the summer) the "Blauseeli" is a popular place to relax for roasters, dog owners and families with kits and young people from the area. But as always, the principle applies here; "Where there is a lot of people, there is no peace". Past the Blausseeli, the bicycle and hiking trail leads past on a causeway. It takes you from Thun to Bern in a Schnutz without any major bends. but mutual tolerance is the order of the day.