Your Trip to Val D'anniviers

Your trip to Val d’Anniviers The Planets Trail

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Sierre Visp Sion St-Luc Martigny 1.Your journey 2.Your journey to Sierre by train by Bus from Sierre

5 trips in the morning

Coming from Bern : Bus 451 & 454 IC6 to Domodossola from Sierre (railway station) to IC8 to Brig St-Luc (Bella Tola), you must change EC to Milan in Vissoie change in Visp on IR90 55-minute journey to Geneva Airport - 01:30 journey Recommended trip* : Departure 07:06 am - Arrival in St-Luc 09:35 am * Indicative trip: some changes may occur Coming from Lausanne : IR90 to Brig - 01:20 journey Recommended trip* : Departure 07:17 am - Arrival in St-Luc 09:34 am

Once you arrive at Sierre railway station : Find your way to the Bus station, south of the train tracks. A 3-minute walk. TIPS

Make use of the free WiFi! Connect in 4 steps : TIPS 1. Select the « PostBus » network 2. Open your Internet browser Information on timetables and rates is 3. Follow the instructions available on the PostBus app 4. Surf while you’re on the move ! 3.Your last step before the « Planets Trail »

To access the Planets Trail, you must take the St-Luc funicular railway. Indicative rates for a return journey : adult : CHF 16.00, child : CHF 13.50

At the top of the funicular, follow signs for the footpath to « Hôtel Weisshorn ».

Start your adventure with the first star, « The Sun ». Walk all the way to Pluto

· Walking time : around 5 hours Follow this footpath through our solar · Difficulty level : easy system. As the distances between the · Height difference : 500 m planets have been scaled down to a · Distance : 6 km (one way) – 12km (return) billionth of their size, every meter · Season : May to October (each of your steps) represents a million kilometers.

You will therefore complete the journey in just 6 km (one way), three times faster R I D D L E than the speed of light! To improve visibility, the stars are shown Do you know all the planets of the at a scale of 1 m = 100 000 km. solar system? THE SUN MERCURY

The Sun Mercury

· The center of the solar system. Without · This planet is only visible to the naked the Sun, temperatures on Earth would eye very low on the horizon in the west, approach absolute zero (-273,15 °C). just after sunset, and in the east a few moments before sunrise. · If the Sun were to be extinguished, we would have eight minutes before being · We had to wait for photographs taken plunged into total darkness. by the Mariner 10 space probe (in 1974) to discover Mercury’s landscapes, which · The Sun should keep shining for are very similar to those found on the another five billion years. Moon. MOON

SOLEILVENUS

EARTH

Venus Earth & the Moon

· Earth’s twin sister. They have the same · We are the first generations of diameter, the same mass and both have human beings to have had the privilege an atmosphere. of seeing planet Earth all at once in a single glance. Astronauts who have · However they have had dramatically viewed it from space describe it as a different fates : at present, Venus has Christmas tree decoration, a dazzling no water and temperatures there reach blue and white jewel. 500 °C. · The Moon is the Earth’s natural satellite. Man’s first steps on the moon were taken on 20 July 1969 by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, the crew of Apollo 11. MARS JUPITER

Jupiter

· Jupiter signals the start of the gas giants. This group of planets has a much Mars lower density, and it’s members are in all likelihood made up of liquid hydrogen, · Seked-ef-em-khetkhet – the one possibly with a metallic hydrogen core, who travels backwards – was the name covered by a thick atmosphere. given to Mars by the Ancient Egyptians. When overtaken by Earth, this planet · Its name, that of the king of the gods really does seem to be tracing a reverse in Roman mythology, places Jupiter at loop in the sky. the top of the hierarchy of the celestial bodies. And indeed it is the largest · For a long time, Mars has been the focus planet and has the highest volume, even of our hopes of finding extraterrestrial though there was no way of knowing life. However, despite much observation this in ancient times! and exploration, no signs of life have ever been discovered on the planet. · When it passed close to Jupiter in 1979, the Voyager space probe revealed a world of colours whirling and swirling together. SATURN URANUS

Saturn

· Saturn is essentially an enormous ball of gas, compressed by it’s own weight. Uranus It is the least dense planet in the solar system (0,7 kg/l). In fact it is so « light » · One evening in 1781, Friedrich Wilhelm that if it were placed in an ocean of Herschel caught sight of a strange, cosmic proportions, it would float. diffuse object which he knew was not a star. At first he thought it was a comet, · When Galileo observed Saturn with but further observation revealed that it is his telescope in 1610, it’s rings looked was in fact a planet which had not yet to him like two protrusions. It was been discovered! Huygens in 1655 who first described the spectacular system of rings encircling · Uranus is a thousand times fainter than the planet. Jupiter, almost two-and-a-half times smaller and twice as far from the Sun · The halo surrounding Saturn has a very as Saturn, making it barely visible to complex structure. It is made up of a the naked eye. Even with the aid of a large number of « rocks » orbiting at powerful terrestrial telescope, this star varying speeds, with those closest to looks like a small, greenish disc with no the planet moving the fastest. distinguishing features. NEPTUNE PLUTO

Neptune Pluto

· Although it is three times smaller than · Pluto is located on the outer reaches of Jupiter, Neptune is considered a gas the solar system and as such, has only giant. When viewed through a telescope, had time to complete five revolutions of this planet looks a lot like Uranus : the Sun since being discovered in 1930. it too appears to be a small blue-green This enigmatic star, which is not always disc. This is due to the presence of granted the status of planet, is slowly methane in the atmosphere, which but surely revealing its secrets. mainly absorbs red and infrared light. · Since 2006, Pluto has no longer been recognized as a planet, meaning that Neptune now represents the end of the solar system. For your return journey...

4 trips with connections

Bus 454 & 451 From St-Luc (Bella Tola) to Sierre (railway station) 4 trips between 02:00 pm and 06:15 pm 55 minute-journey Recommended trip* : Departure from St-Luc (Bella Tola) 03:45 pm, arrival in Bern 06:24 pm, arrival in Lausanne 06:10 pm.

To Lausanne : 4 connections 01:20 journey

* Indicative trip: some changes You have reached the end of your may occur walk. We hope you enjoyed your journey of discovery through the stars in the Alpine setting of Val TIPS d’Anniviers!

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Take your time

Spend several nights in the same village to immerse yourself in local life.

Take part in an event or an activity.

You will also receive an « Anniviers Liberté » pass, which gives you unrestricted access to the mountain lifts (see opening times), public transport and more than 20 free activities.

Validity

Validity and rates on www.sierre-anniviers.ch

Contact

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