Rhine River
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is a source of the river Rhine in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The river originates from the Länta Glacier and the Grauhorn Glacier at the northern foot of the Rheinwaldhorn and initially flows through the valley Länta before it flows into the Zervreilasee reservoir. Before the construction of the reservoir, the brooks Hornbach and Canalbach would flow into Valser Rhine from the right at the village of Zervreila. Today, the brooks flow into the reservoir, as does the Finsterbach, also from the right.
This «Little Swiss Grand Canyon» is a natural monument offering a host of activities such as hiking and river rafting.
The Rhine Gorge, or «Ruinaulta» in Romansh, is one of the most magnificent and diverse landscapes in the Alps. Created about 10,000 years ago by a rockslide, the gorge walls reach heights of up to 300 metres. In its depths, the Upper Rhine winds its way for 14 kilometres. It is fed from Lake Toma at the Oberalp Pass, the Rhine's official source. From there it is exactly 1,233 kilometres to its outlet in the North Sea near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. (copied from Swiss Mobility )
A view of Rhine river. Taken from Drachenfels (Siebengebirge) in Königswinter /Bad Honnef near Bonn, Germany in 2015. A few images were taken with my old phone camera, and patched together. The colors are edited.
the Rhine Gorge is a gorge up to 350 meters deep in Graubünden with dramatically sloping white walls. The only continous traffic route through the gorge is the route of the Rhaetian Railway.
A last quit moment before the winter is coming back with ice rain and snow storm.
Ihr Lieben, geht's euch gut? Schreibt mal
I was still climbing to the "Rheinquelle", the source of the Rhine, but couldn't resist a stop to take this photo. You can see the track I was climbing, and the road zigzagging up to the Oberalppass in the background. to the right you see the Rhine Valley and the village of Tschamut.
I love to zoom in on a photo like this and discover isolated houses, tunnels and even the Glacier Express.
Good evening dear friends,
I would like to explain the photo a little. The location is Stein am Rhein in Switzerland on a sunny day last week. The sky was blue and the sun was shining the whole day but it was really cold.
For the photo I was standing on a bridge. Behind me on the left side there is the historical old town of Stein am Rhein with wonderful old building and wall paintings. In front of you see the Rhine. This is the first place we call it the Rhine, because behind the little islands, which you see in front the photo, there is the end of the Lake Constance. On the right side you can see the Werd Island, where the monks live. You remember perhaps an other photo of me.
When I paddle in summer with kayak or SUP I normally come from this direction. Often I take a break on Werd-Island and paddle on under the long wooden bridge, you can see on the right side. Here at this place begins the flow of the Rhine and you get a really good speed down the Rhine on the way to Diessenhofen and to Schaffhausen. If you swim down the Rhine you are really fast and you have to decide early, where you want to get out, otherwise you had a long way back home. By kayak or SUP it is a wonderful experience about 50 km to paddle from Moos to Schaffhausen. Beautiful, really. But you need a second car at the end of the tour. With a SUP you can go back by train. I did it several times, and I slept very well in those nights...;)
I will show you more of my photos when I'm on a Rhine tour again in 2018. The camera is always in my dry bag or the little black suitcase you know from the Steckborn story...;)
Have a nice Sunday :)
See you.... Yarin
And please habe a look to the other side of the Rhine in b&w here...
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Thank you!
This is the tour to the old town of Düsseldorf.
First, it goes to the Rhine and then in the Orangerie of Castle Benrath.
Ein kleiner Trip durch den Naturschutzpark zum Rhein. Eine Stelle, die ich noch nicht kannte.
Das Obere recht Bild werde ich on stellen, damit man mal die Daten nachvollziehen kann:
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A little trip through the Park to the Rhine. A point I still didn't know.
I'm on to the upper right image, so that you can reconstruct the data times:
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As we travel by Viking ship up the middle Rhine River, there were vineyards everywhere.
It amazed me how they planted them on such steep hillsides. There are reasons for that. They say by planting on hillsides the grapes get just the right angle of sun to produce much better crops. The hillsides are also terraced, so the grape pickers can get to them easier.
The patchwork of different colors of vineyards really fascinated me!
I hope you all had a very nice Thanksgiving. As usual, I ate way to much! :-)