Experiences in Appenzell Ausserrhoden

The special “Intensive Times - Women and Customs” show depicts the role of women farmers, from the alpine ascent to New Year’s Eve celebrations.

This landscape is the perfect setting for a health trail. Here you will experience for yourself the close relationship between nature and medicine. In our hectic and technological world it is so easy to forget our sense of connection with our wonderful bodies. Come on this herbal walk and experience how the finest medicines for our bodies have their source in nature.

This barefoot trail takes you across the Gonten moor to the Kronbergbahn valley station. Experience first-hand the unique sensations of barefoot hiking.

Lilly and Martin visit their Uncle Sämi on the Alp. The siblings’ adventures on the hike to Urnäsch are recounted on 14 illustrated signposts or markers.

Traditions such as the “Silvesterchläuse”, Alpine cattle drive, mountain farming, home life and string music form the focus of the museum, where visitors are encouraged to play their part. The museum also offers an insight into the typical domestic culture of Alpine farming and traditional handicraft workshops.

In the heart of the unspoiled hilly landscape of the pre-Alps, the famous Appenzeller® cheese is made in the Appenzeller show-dairy. A visit to this show-dairy promises to be a very special experience: it brings together all the senses, tradition and comfort.

The journey in the big Säntis cable car from Schwägalp across the rocky ridges to the mountain station is an impressive experience in itself. And once you reach the “weather mountain”, the view of six different countries will take your breath away.

In and around Urnäsch seven Adventure Farms offer visitors various opportunities to experience what it is like to live in the countryside in Appenzell. One of them is the small farm Alp Nasen, where the farmer makes his cheese in the summer.