Hiking in Maienfeld, a Heidiland

Again we were in the mountain weekend.



Maienfeld. A place where Heidi comes from. This small village is famous as a stage of Heidi which is very popular story even in Japan.



A hiking course staring from this village leads you to Heidi's field.　Follow a sign of "Heidiweg". Red course is easy one, but in order to visit Heidihütte, where you see Heidi's house, you have to take advanced level Blue course.





As soon as we started our way, beautiful scenery jumped into our sights. A huge grape field with mountain behind.





sheeps are also enjoying the view..



This is the end of Red course, easy peesy way. Blue course is more steep. This mountain is not as high as in Brienz last weekend but there is a 600m height difference from staring point to the Heidi Hütte, our goal.



We head our jouney of course further to Blue course.

What interesting in this hiking course is that you see a board with Heidi's episode.



Peter hit these woods like an instrument in order to tell Heidi in mountain that he will visit her soon..(that was a sign)



Heidi and Uncle Ulm had rest in the bench whenever they walk down to the village.



From this point, Peter threw away Klara's wheel chair and broke it into pieces from here. (but from this incident, Klara started to learn how to walk)



By reading these episode, our hiking went fast, it took only 1 hour from the starting point up to top. (My Japanese guide says it will take 2 hours!) Here is Heidihutte, a goal of Blue course.



Up on the mountain was a real Heidiland!! Heidi Hütte, where Heidi and Uncle Ulm live in story. Now this place functions as restaurant.



We went further up on the hill and had lunch here, overviewing amazing view of Graubünden.



This is the best part of Hiking. Enjoying breathtaking view after long walk.



On the way down, we took another way, a small road through forest covered by full red leaves. These leaves makes confortable sounds every step we take.



Heidi's fountain.



We went off from Blue course, continues further to red course and came back to the starting point of blue course again. So many back and forth. We walked indeed a lot this day.



But now I got to know better to Heidi's world. In Japan, Switzerland is popular because of this Heidi's story. Even now, many Japanese think whole Switzerland is like here, Maienfeld. Well, I'm living in normal city in Switzerland but these photo I took from Maienfeld would be a nice gift for my friends in Japan.. This is the exact image of Switzerland they have.