Discover Germany
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Cover Feature
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A Special Kind of Cattle Drive
A SPECIAL KIND OF CATTLE DRIVE Something to put in your travel calendar this year: It‘s a woolly, bustling spectacle when around 500 sheep return to the Bettmeralp from their summer pasture on the top of the Swiss Aletsch Arena at the end of September. The animals look forward to the lush green meadows at lower altitudes, while guests and locals head to the festival that goes hand in hand with the so-called ‘Schafscheid’ cattle drive. And the farmers are once again happy to have their sheep in the dry... TEXT: NANE STEINHOFF, C.C. SCHMID
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Issue 92
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April 2022
