Leukerbad is now the biggest thermal spa and ''wellness'' resort in Switzerland. Here, wellness is not simply a new-age fashion trend. Besides the thermal spring water, more than 130 additional wellness applications are waiting to be discovered.

Whether Valaisan water takes the form of cotton-wool snowflakes, eternal glacier ice or bubbling thermal springs, it is and remains one of the foundations of our holiday treasure trove. The Valaisan thermal spa resorts are veritable oases of regeneration that soon make us forget the stresses and strains of our ever more hectic lives. Even the Romans understood the power of the healing waters from deep within the mountains, long before the era of wellness and beauty. Because people were unable to provide a coherent explanation for the manifold effects of the thermal water, it was long said to have mystical powers. Today, thanks to progress, we can deliver scientific proof of the wide-ranging effectiveness of thermal spring water. Yet it remains mysterious and unfathomable.