On the Walserweg from Thalkirch, Turra to Safien Platz

Arriving at Thalkirch, Turra, we recommend visiting the exhibition barn of the Safier Ställe association right by the post bus stop before you start your hike. There you will receive interesting information about the importance of the barns and the Walser scattered settlements, which shape the landscape in the region. You start your hike following the valley road back to Thalkirch. After a few minutes, you leave the road turning right over a bridge and follow the river to Thalkirch. While walking, you recognize the typical Safier settlement landscape with scattered houses on the left valley slope (sometimes also with freestanding ovens), barns, hay barns, and alpine huts (called «Stupli»). In Thalkirch, it is worth visiting the small church. From the church, you walk back a short stretch along the valley road and then follow the hiking trail, which after a house immediately takes a right turn. Across a meadow, you head towards Bawald and soon reach the enchanting forest that has many legends to tell. The path then leads through forest and over alpine pastures up to the Camaner huts. The view from here is wonderful. You can overlook almost the entire valley. In Camanaboda, you are in the highest permanently inhabited settlement of the valley. Here is also the Safier Homeland Museum. Despite its small size, the «aalt Huus», as it is also called, has all the rooms typical for that time, and here you learn impressively how people lived and worked in the past. It is open every second Sunday or by appointment. From Camanaboda the path follows a section of the road before it then goes steeply down to Safien Platz at the «Hof».