Did you know in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland region, you can rent a backpack from a local dairy filled with everything you need for a mobile, al fresco fondue feast — a pouch of classic or truffle cheese, bread, spices, plates, forks, a pot, and a warmer!
And where do you take this fondue pack? To large, wooden fondue pots (called caquelons) strategically placed throughout the region to offer panoramic views of the mountains and the Saanen Valley below.
“I’m sitting in a giant, open-air, human-sized fondue pot on a hillside in the Swiss Alps, eating cheese that I made with gear from a special ‘fondue backpack’, writes Sarah Kuta, a Kiwi travel writer.
“While planning a recent trip to Gstaad, a charming mountain town in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland region, I came across a search result that immediately intrigued me,” she writes.
“Apparently, I could rent a backpack from a local dairy filled with everything I’d need for a mobile, al fresco fondue feast…”
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