Across untouched natural landscape
On the "Alpine Panorama Trail" of SwitzerlandMobility 32 passes are crossed through the southern Swiss Alps with feature some spectacular mountain trails. If you like untouched mountain landscapes, lonely valleys, expansive views from heights for 4000 m scenery and cosy overnight stays in a mountain hut, you'll get your money's worth. In the Grisons, Ticino and Valais Alps, one scenic highlight follows another.

One of these highlights is undoubtedly the plateau of the Greina (Plaun la Greina), almost six kilometres long and one kilometre wide, a unique alpine tundra landscape at an altitude of 2200m. It belongs to the Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance. Numerous springs flow undisturbed through the plain as small mountain streams, forming meanders, ponds and moors. The area was to become part of the Parc Adula planned for 2015, which, however, could not be realised due to rejection by several municipalities.

The Greina lies between the cantons of Graubünden and Ticino. Already in Roman times, important connecting routes over the Alps led here. Because it can still only be reached on foot, it has remained an untouched jewel.

The plateau can be reached from five different starting points in Graubünden and Ticino. The regular post bus lines are extended in summer by the "Bus Alpin": from Vrin to Puzzatsch, from Rabius to Runcahez and from Olivone to Pian Geirett in Val Camadra. From here it continues on foot. Four huts are available for overnight stays, the Terri hut, the Capanna Motterascio, the Capanna Scaletta and - a little further away - the Medelser hut.