Sion to Val de Nendaz (driving tour)

Leave Sion on the Val d'Herens road and after crossing the Rhône take a road on the right which gradually leads uphill and comes in 5km/3mi to Arvilard (684 m/2,244ft), where a road branches off on the left to Mayens de Sion. 1km/0.6mi: Baar (738 m/2,421ft), beyond which the road turns south into the narrow Val de Nendaz. 2km/ 1mi: Brignon (895 m/2,936ft). 2km/ 1mi: Basse-Nendaz (992 m/3,255ft).

Haute-Nendaz (1,370 m/4,495ft) is a holiday and skiing resort high above the Rhône valley. Cableway (2,270 m/7,448ft, 12minutes) to Tracouet (2,200 m/7,218ft; skiing), at the foot of the Dent de Nendaz (2,463 m/8,081ft; two-three hours). The road continues south up the valley above an irrigation channel (bisse).

Lac de Cleuson (2,115 m/6,939ft) is an artificial lake 1,200 m/3,937ft long created in 1958.

From Haute-Nendaz it is 2km/1mi to Le Bleusy (1,412 m/4,633ft), with a chapel. 3km/2mi: L'Antie (1,565 m/5,135ft). 3km/2mi Siviez (1,758 m/5,770ft; several ski-lifts). From here a road (2km/1mi) runs to the Alpe de Tortin (2,039 m/6,690ft), from which there is a cableway (2,280 m/7,481ft, 12minutes) to the Col de Chassoure (2,734 m/8,970ft); from there a chairlift to the Lac des Vaux. Cableway from Tortin-Col des Gentianes to Mont Fort.

From Beuson a steep and narrow mountain road climbs 3.5km/2mi to Veysonnaz (1,233 m/4,045ft), from which a cableway ascends to the holiday and winter sports resort of Thyon 2000 (2,068 m/6,785ft; blocks of apartments; indoor swimming pool, ski-lifts), which can also be reached by road (13km/8mi) from Vex via Les Collons (1,800 m/5,906ft).