Chateau-d'Oex

Château-d’Oex straddles the Sarine River in Vaud’s Pays-d’Enhaut, where a broad Alpine valley has shaped it as a centre for surrounding mountain communities. Wooden chalets and working pastures give the town a distinctly pre-Alpine character, while the Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway follows the valley through the region. Château-d’Oex is internationally associated with ballooning: its annual International Balloon Festival brings pilots to the valley, and Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones departed from here in 1999 aboard Breitling Orbiter 3, completing the first nonstop balloon flight around the world. Discover other points of interest through webcams located across Vaud and Pays-d’Enhaut.

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