Bisse de Clavau 4 May 2014

20140504 105351 On 4 May we set off with Dom and Carol Bonvin and their neighbors to follow the Bisse de Clavau 20140504 104043 The Bisse de Clavau brings water from La Liene beneath Crans.. 20140504 104045 all the way to Sion. Here is Christine at the Sion end 20140504 104049 and lovin' it!
20140504 104115 Poppies blooming on the dry Valais hillside. 20140504 105126(0) The bisse itself with a monorail, which links the vineyards to roads lower down, crossing over it 20140504 112449 The typical Valaisanne landscape with the floodplain of the Rhone on the right and the vineyards on the left 20140504 114435 Irises in bloom on the retaining walls
20140504 114623 Following the bisse with the Illhorn and Bella Tola in the distance 20140504 114838 What is more peaceful than flowing water? 20140504 134158 After kilometers of following the hillside, the bisse finally turned into the ravine of La Liene 20140504 143405 Climbing out of the ravine we passed these fields of aromatic herbs.
20140504 155055 We ended up at Icogne. 20140504 154549 where we admired the flowers 20140504 154618 blooming around the tiny village square 20140504 154542 Flowers, Alps and Christine