Cows in the Swiss Alps with those dainty bells around their necks can be had — for a price. Near the remote Seealpsee Lake in the Appenzell district (an hour by car east of Zurich), visitors can rent ...

LECH AM ARLBERG, Austria – Timex should patent their alarm clock in Lech. The chiming of bells from the church echoes through the valley, awakening us from our jet-lagged slumber. We awaken to the ...

Walking high above Gimmelwald, my favorite Swiss village, with Olle, who teaches farm kids in the village school, I always feel like a wide-eyed student. We meet a massive cow loitering atop a ...

Animal rights activists have demanded that one of the signature sounds of the Bavarian Alps – the gentle ringing of distant cow bells – be brought to an end, claiming it is cruel to the animals. “To ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Mahler's sixth and seventh symphonies both use cow bells to evoke the Austrian alps, but it can be ...

The gentle tinkling of cowbells is a sound almost everyone associates with Switzerland. It conjures up images of peaceful pastures, with majestic snow-capped mountains in the distance. But what if ...

A large jovial crowd, many attired in lederhosen or dirndls, gathered outside the beer tent. All eyes were on the mountain road. Soon they shouted and pointed. Rounding a bend up in the hills marched ...