Walking a stretch of the centuries-old Via Francigena -Part 3: Down the jungle forest till La Sarraz

From Romainmôtier, an old town built around an abbey church, to La Sarraz, at the other end of a pristine water-soaked forest. A story in three parts: here the last part of the walk through the forest all along the Nozon river, until the town of La Sarraz.

The Via Francigena is an ancient Christian pilgrimage route that connects Canterbury, England, to Rome and the Apulia, both in Italy. The route crosses both France and Switzerland. To know more about the route itself, check the other two parts of this story: Part 1 - Part 2

Part 3: hiking along the Nozon river from the cascade du Dard until La Sarraz

After leaving the waterfall behind, we continued through the very moist forest of dense vegetation, which actually reminds me of a tropical jungle in some sections, all along the Nozon river, moving downstream in parallel to it:

The forest’s vegetation is exuberant. All of a jungle in fact!

The river keeps going, with bumps here and there:

And squeezed sponges of water-soaked soil keep feeding it from the

Finally getting to the town of La Sarraz:

And in the city’s center…

A skeleton, masked of course, looks at us through the window:

This story started here:

in an easy hike that included a visit to this waterfall:

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