Transfer by train form Yverdon-les-Bains to Pratteln.

Visit of the ‘Salines Suisses’. The salt-works sites in Riburg, Schweizerhalle, and Bex, the ‘SALINES SUISSES S.A’ currently employs 200 staff and produce approximately 600,000 metric tonnes of salt per year. Through the production, storage, and trade, it ensures the production of all variants of salt on a national scale, delivered to the most remote parts of Switzerland. The Schweizerhalle Salt Works has exhibits and displays explaining the procedures for collecting the ‘White Gold’, from brine to the crystallisation of the salt.

The Schweizerhalle production site has a museum, the ‘Die Salzkammer’, that explains the huge varieties of applications in different civilisations wherein salt had an important part to play.

The 15 exhibition rooms, over two storeys, take the visitor into the wonderful world of salt. Blocks of 1,000 year old salt, historical salt recipients, poems and anecdotes, all remind us of the origins of the ‘White Gold’. The exhibition traces the history of salt mining and the salt trade, from the origins through to modern industrial production systems. The view down to an original mine shaft offers an impressive sight. The exhibition is in the ‘Glenck’ Villa. The Neo-Baroque style architecture, built in 1860, is on the location where the first salt extractions were made in North-West Switzerland.

Transfer to Basle for a visit of the town or a visit to a selection of museums of your choice.