Tamina Gorge Thermal Spring – Tamina Gorge Illuminations loop from Valens

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Tamina Gorge Thermal Spring – Tamina Gorge Illuminations loop from Valens

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Tamina Gorge Thermal Spring – Tamina Gorge Illuminations loop from Valens

02:42

7.45km

400m

Hiking

Hard hike. Good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 29, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment that may be dangerous

A part of this route comprises technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience may be required.

After 3.46 km for 896 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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1.01 km

Natural Bridge Over the Tamina Gorge

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Natural Bridge in the Tamina Gorge
There are two possible explanations for how the Tamina River carved its gorge out of the rock over the past 15,000 years:
First, the …

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1.13 km

Steep Wooden Staircase in the Tamina Gorge

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400 steps to heaven? I only got to 365, but maybe I miscounted.

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5.10 km

Altes Bad Pfäfers Baroque Bath and Monastery Museum

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Old Pfäfers Baths
Switzerland's oldest baroque bathing facility, now a bathing and monastery museum with a Paracelsus memorial, a neo-Gothic bathing chapel, and a restaurant.
Even the poet Rainer Maria …

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5.85 km

Tamina Gorge Thermal Spring

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Tamina Gorge - 36.5°C, 8,000 liters per minute.
Two hunters from the nearby Pfäfers Monastery discovered the healing Tamina spring in 1240. Therefore, the healing properties of Pfäfers' spring water …

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5.90 km

Tamina Gorge Illuminations

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5.97 km

Historic Kitchen

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Beautiful museum from old times

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7.45 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.03 km

2.63 km

896 m

593 m

303 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

3.95 km

1.30 km

793 m

600 m

580 m

157 m

Elevation

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Highest point (920 m)

Lowest point (670 m)

Weather

Wednesday 21 October

12°C

1°C

0 %

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Max wind speed: 4.0 km/h

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Comments

September 15, 2022,15.09.22 Runde zur Taminaschlucht ab Pfäfers

Intended as a bad weather program, the weather wasn't too bad at all 👍. In a short rainy phase I used the time to look at the museum in the old Bad Pfäfers after a tour of the thermal spring and also had a dry lunch break there.

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September 27, 2021,CH_Pfäfers: Tour durch die Taminaschlucht 2021/116

At the end of our hiking weekend, the Tamina Gorge was on the program. Unfortunately, I didn't make a note of who gave me this fantastic tip. This little round tour is a real experience. We start at the free parking lot in Pfäfers. To our astonishment, it goes straight and steadily downhill at first. We come across a paved …

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