Brunch, hiking, enjoying: Sunday trip to Blausee

Time instead of stuff; True to this principle, my siblings and I each give our parents a voucher for a Sunday outing together at Christmas. And so that the voucher is not a promise into the void, we agree on an activity in advance and fix the date of implementation. Just like me, my parents and siblings are always on the move and it’s not so easy to find a date where a) everyone is in the country and b) nothing else is planned. After these joint excursions had already taken us through the snow flurry in Wirzweli or to the Stockhorn in previous years, this year the Blausee near Kandergrund won the race.

Sunday brunch at the Blausee

While the Blausee with its extraordinary blue-green colour has such an international appeal in the summer months that the excursion destination has to groan under the weight of the streams of tourists from time to time, it is more contemplative here in the winter months. At this time of year, the Blausee attracts the passionate “Zmörgeler” to the idyllic mountain lake with its Sunday brunch offer. Every Sunday from the beginning of November to mid-April, between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., an extensive brunch buffet is served at the Blausee – the perfect prelude to a leisurely family outing!

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The cost of Sunday brunch is CHF 46 per person. This price includes the entrance fee to the nature park, which amounts to 10 CHF on winter weekends, as well as latte macchiatos and cappuccinos à discretion (my family members “shamelessly” struck here). If you also like to round off your Sunday brunch with a glass of sparkling wine, you’ll also be in luck. In view of the many regional and homemade products on the buffet, this is a fairly priced offer. In addition to fresh Züpfe, Kandertaler Anke, Rösti, Frutigtaler dried fruit and Kandertaler Chäs, the specialties of the organic trout farm are among the specialties of the Blausee Sunday brunch – ä Guetä!

By the time each of our 7-member troupe has tasted their way through the Sunday brunch buffet, the morning is over in no time. Now the wonderful weather – spring-like in terms of temperatures – lures us outside.

Blausee – Frutigen – easy hike in the Kandertal

After a lap around the lake, we decide to make our way back to the Frutigen train station on foot. The easy, almost 8-kilometre-long “digestive” hike is good for all of us. We first follow the main road. At Innerkandergrund, the hiking trail turns right and from there runs congruent with the Lötschberg north ramp (the counterpart to the more well-known south ramp). At the Tellenfeld there is the possibility to cross the Kander and climb to the ruins of Tellenburg or hike via Kanderbrück and stock up on fine mountain products in the charming self-service shop there. Either way, a thoroughly successful Sunday outing!

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While the route is signposted with two hours on the official signpost, we only need 1.5 hours for the route recorded below. The route includes some minor climbs of 160 metres in altitude – but in total you walk mostly downhill (a total of 275 metres in altitude). Most of the sections of the trail are paved. Only a short intermediate section, which follows the disused Kandergrund station, runs over a humus-treated subsoil.

ps. in wintry temperatures, the Sunday break at the Blausee can also be combined well with a trip to the Ice Walk at Lake Oeschinen!