Villars-sur-Ollon / Chesières (health resorts)

From Huémoz the road runs along the hillside, with a view of Villars, and climbs again in a double hairpin bend to the health resort of Chesières (1,220 m/4,003ft).

10km/6mi from Ollon is Villars-sur-Ollon (1,256 m/4,121ft), a popular health resort (salt-water swimming pool, golf-course, climbing school) and winter sports resort (several ski-lifts; cross-country skiing trail 25km/16mi long; ski-bobbing run; artificial ice-rink; curling; ski-flying school), magnificently set on a sunny terrace high above the Rhône valley, with views extending to the Mont Blanc group. It is the terminus of an electric railroad from Bex (1.25 hours), connecting with the line over the Col de Soud (1,523 m/4,997ft) to the Col de Bretaye (1,850 m/6,070ft)