Fire up your imagination and click through the list below for ideas how to spend your days in and around Ruschein. Every choice is a fitting one. That's how rewarding Surselva is!

Surselva offers hiking at its best, choice is varied, vistas splendid. Pez Mundaun is easily reached and allows to survey the whole region.

Aside from the skiing and snowboarding areas there are many winter trails for pedestrians, trails to go snow shoeing, x-country trails and special routes for slay riding.

The valley of the Anterior Rhine is a sequence of post glacial rock slides from Chur to Tschamut. The biggest one shaped the area of Flims. There are several smaller ones and many feature wetlands and small lakes as Lag da Laus above Surrein (near Trun). As always, you need not take your own vehicle, Retian Railway and Postauto will drop you off and pick you up. There's a special multiple day visitor's pass available for Surselva region.

Myriades of crocusses spring up no sooner the snow is gone. A veil of white and move spreads over the meadows. Particularly beautiful are the ones in the small community of Signina (cable car from Riein Pardi; obtain key from village mayor - no kidding!).

To shorten the ascent you can obtain a one day permit to use the alpine acces road from Ruschein to Midada Sut (Alp Ruschein). A wide open area for hiking offers great views to the south across the Rhine valley to the main Alpine Crest. A dominant pyramid at the sw horizon is Piz Terri in the area of the fable Greina altiplano.

Walking through gold and blue - the yellowing larches and the clear sky can make you a poet.

Major promontories in Surselva all feature a stronghold of some sort; often the fortifications have forerunners dating back into the bronce age. So, for instand Munt Sogn Gieri (St. Georges Bluff) in the community of Waltensbur / Vuorz. There's still a bell in the belfry. This site was abandoned and left todecay some 300 years ago after beiong occupied for millenia - note the cups ground into the bedrock toward the eastern edge.

An unknown medieval master (working in the first half of the 14th century) hav been given the name 'Meister von Waltensburg'. That's where his chief work can be admired. There's about a score of frescoed churches decorated fully or in part by his hand.

Vals Therma Spa features one of the chief works by the renowned architect Zumthor (offices in Haldenstein near Chur). He in conjunction with his wife (directrice at Vals spa) also designed the replacement of a chappel destroyd by an avalanche in the hamlet of Sogn Benedetg above Sumvitg.

Whether you look down from the Flims forest or you look up from a hike, a rail ride or on a drift down the Rhine, the bizarre shapes of the eroding walls of the Ruinaulta will impress you. An easy hike links the rail stations Versam and Valendas.

Ilande is the reconstructed celtic name of the first city upon the Rhine - Ilanz in german, Glion in Romansh. In the old town you'll find the Museum Sursilvan (unique collection films illustrating bygone ways of life) as well as some restaurants.