Schynige Platte
Alpine ridge with a botanical garden of native mountain flowers and sweeping Bernese Oberland views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Schynige Platte Alpine Garden above Interlaken starts from a sum that seems wrong: a single fenced-off cow pasture on the ridge, and a share of Switzerland's mountain flora far too large for it. It follows the village workers and head gardener Herrmann Schenk who laid out the paths in the late nineteen-twenties, and the modest public money behind them. Best heard on the main loop, where the ground under your boots keeps changing direction.
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