Circling the entire lake, the volunteer-maintained trail offers stunning vistas and climbs ranging from gruelling to causal that lead to high mountain meadows.

BBC: Lost in paradise

It was great hearing live versions of tracks from the recent Mountain Meadows, and band even treated us to a couple of older tracks.

NPR: Elliott Brood: 'Death Country' At The Border

It is a richly structured landscape ranging from 600 m to 3, 000 m above sea level and encompasses typical ecosystems of the Central Alps such as mountain meadows and mires with great biodiversity.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

It has a a site of rich diversity, with a variety of landscapes from mountain river gorges, to mountains steppes, meadows, floodplains and reservoirs.

UNESCO: EDUCATION