{"id":2239,"date":"2015-04-29T10:17:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T09:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2015-04-29T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T09:20:35","slug":"visiting-the-creux-de-van-and-spending-time-with-bouquetins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/visiting-the-creux-de-van-and-spending-time-with-bouquetins\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the Creux de Van and spending time with Bouquetins."},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 4<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Images I saw of the Creux de Van made me want to visit the location in person. Yesterday despite the mediocre weather I went there. From Neuchatel you drive towards Noiraigue. Free parking is available.<\/p>\n

For the first hour you are walking up a steep winding path. A few trees have fallen, stones and mud are also present until you reach the top of the cliff. From there you see a glimpse of the cliff and views to come. As I stood there I saw a solitary Bouquetin on the rocks.<\/p>\n

From there I went right and walked along the cliff. On one side I had green grass and a farm and on the other side I had a steep cliff. I walked along and came to an outcrop. From here you could see the full cliff face. I walked around the arc until I came across a herd of Bouquetins. They were right in my path. I took several pictures before heading back down the other side. I came across a wooden hut and table where people can have a snack. As you walk through the woods you get towards the end of the Gorge De L’Areuse. It was full of water due to the recent rains. By this point I had already walked 10km so I continued back towards the car.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>
This is the path you take to get up to the top of the Creux de Van<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"One<\/a>
One of the first views as you emerge from the woods and see the landscape open up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A nice Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"More<\/a>
More landscape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking away from the cliffs you see the woods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"If<\/a>
If you look down from this point you will see a long drop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I<\/a>
I liked the quality of light here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"With<\/a>
With Spring coming back all the trees are becoming green once again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Another<\/a><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A herd of Bouquetins were playing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"When<\/a>
When I arrived they were standing by the grass and slowly made their way towards the cliff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Just<\/a>
Just like when we were children they are playing on the wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Just<\/a>
Just like when we were children they are playing on the wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"IMG_7243\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A bouquetin with the Creux de Van in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A bouquetin with the Graux de Van in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Woods,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Nice<\/a>
Nice Landscape and nice view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Creux De Van<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"IMG_7298\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>
This is a physical 14km walk .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 4<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Images I saw of the Creux de Van made me want to visit the location in person. Yesterday despite the mediocre weather I went there. From Neuchatel you drive towards Noiraigue. Free parking is available. For the first hour you are walking up a steep winding path. A few trees have fallen, stones and mud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[255,533,5],"tags":[702,701,256,496,343,227,349],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swiss-walks","category-switzerland-2","category-travel","tag-cliffs","tag-creux-de-van","tag-hike","tag-hiking","tag-mountains","tag-walk","tag-walking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}