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Thanks v much. unesco biosphere entlebuch looks beautiful. I just bought a map, and that sounds like the ideal route. Basel down to Sion, then along the Rhone valley into Montreaux-Lausanne etc. I've heard the police are a little cranky when it comes to wild camping, so hopefully there'll be a few campsites en route that aren't jampacked with caravans...
Know of any good ones/any experience wild camping around there?
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I think wild camping is not allowed "below the treeline" in Switzerland. I sometimes see canoe tourers camping in the trees by the river on my way to work, but they are very discreet - out of sight of road or habitation in that spot. If you do try it, i would aim for the same, and leave before a lot of people are about (and the Swiss get up early), and don't blame me if you get a whopping on the spot fine!
There's a lot of forests. If I was going to try it, I would look for a waldhaus, which is a cabin/house/shelter in the woods, often near the edge, usually signed, easy to access on a waldstrasse, belonging to a nearby village but often out of sight of it. Assuming they're not having a party in it, you would probably find a water tap or trough close by, fireplace, level ground, possibly could sleep on the porch of it or in it if it's an open structure. Don't know if they show up on maps, will look. Would be anxious about hunters but I think that's no problem in july though!
Shouldn't be a problem to find campsites, and ones I looked at recently were very cheap for Switzerland. Probably will have a lot of family/caravan stuff on them though.
xrayspex
Basel-unesco biosphere entlebuch (fluhli)-bern (or through some mountains)-montreaux-lausanne-geneva?