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CREUX-DU-VAN, NEUCHÂTEL

08.05.2021

Difficulty: Medium

Distance: 14.2km

Duration: 4h35

Route:

Train to Noiraigue

Hike: Noiraigue - Creux-du-Van - Noiraigue

Creux-Du-Van

"Toblerones", concrete blocks built during the Second World War as tank barriers

Creux-Du-Van

Serpentine path with 14 turns

Creux-Du-Van
Creux-Du-Van
Creux-Du-Van

View on lake Bienne and Neuchâtel

Creux-Du-Van
Creux-Du-Van

The rock arena has forests and arctic-alpine flora, an exceptional and unusual regional climate

Creux-Du-Van
Creux-Du-Van
Creux-Du-Van
Creux-Du-Van

An impressive natural rock arena with 160m high vertical rock faces surrounded by a 4km long and
over 1km wide valley basin. First the glaciers, then the brooks have shaped the rock formation
from the 200 million year old lime deposits of a prehistoric ocean.

Creux-Du-Van

Chamois, ibex and numerous other wild animals inhabit the pristine natural landscape

Creux-Du-Van