Schaferfest

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The annual sheep festival beside the Daubensee, usually on the last Sunday in July.

Traditionally all the sheep were rounded up to give them their salt dose for the summer. Now they seem to get sheepnuts and salt, along with lots of spectators. Some years there can be 1000 sheep of all types, including brown sheep and the comical Walliser sheep.

-- JaneCurry - 2009-06-07 - 20:30
The shepherds round up hundreds of sheep and then herd them all down to the shore of the Daubensee for their sheepnuts:

Hundreds of sheep and hundreds of people!:

An amazing collection of alpenhorns in 2007!:

The Walliser sheep with their black faces and knees always look comical:

There is always at least one jodel club at the Schaferfest:

There always seem to be a lot of the shepherds take part in the annual tug-of-war between Bern and Wallis:

The tug-of-war tradition is obviously going to continue for many years yet!:

The band at the Schaferfest - this is "007":