Glacier Bike Tour 9. Ulrichen - Visp

After the austere, thousand-year-old scenery of the Furka Pass, the ninth stage of the Glacier Bike Tour (GBT) crosses the picturesque Goms Valley, a hidden gem in Upper Valais. This splendid landscape is dotted with small hamlets featuring sun-blackened houses, flanked by barns and log storehouses. Make your first stop at Mühlebach, home to Switzerland's oldest wooden village centre, and continue on to Ernen and its magnificent village square. The route then passes through the Binntal Regional Nature Park, which carefully preserves its traditional,  varied Alpine flora landscape, and continues to the Twingischlucht (Twingi Gorge), before passing through several small villages before reaching the Rhône. Follow the river to Brig, then on to Visp, whose winding old town offers many opportunities to taste the grape varieties that flourish in the region, such as Païen (Heida), the local specialty, or Cornalin.