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The second day takes us over several lakes, over the Devil's Bridge and the Aare Gorge, and over three beautiful passes. Overnight stay at Lake Biel. Departure in Sankt Martin via Chur to the Oberalp Pass, this route runs through a beautiful landscape and is great fun to drive. Via Andermatt we then head to the Schöllenen Gorge in Uri to the Devil's Bridge. There we take a break and take plenty of pictures. We continue on the James Bond Road at the Furka Pass, which is one of the most beautiful Alpine pass roads. Fantastic view of the glaciated Bernese Alps. Then we go over the Grimsel Pass, a well-developed pass road with magnificent views of the Rhone Valley and the surrounding mountains of the Swiss Alps. You should take a detour to the Oberaarsee at the traffic lights, where you can enjoy a beautiful panoramic view of the Alps. The Aare Tour actually only starts today on day 2. The Aare is the longest river that runs entirely within Switzerland. The Aare rises in the two Aar glaciers in the eastern Bernese Alps on the Finsteraarhorn, west of the Grimsel Pass in central southern Switzerland. It flows through the cantons of Bern, Solothurn and Aargau. First it passes through the Aare Gorge, cut into a high rock ridge, and then reaches the plain between Meiringen and the glacial Lake Brienz. Shortly before entering Lake Thun near Interlaken it is canalized and leaves this to the northwest into the wide Aare valley. In the area of Bern it flows around the medieval city center and reaches Lake Wohlen to the west. At Aarberg it is channeled into Lake Biel via the Hagneck Canal and after leaving the canton follows the course of the Jura Mountains northeastwards. Below Brugg it receives the Reuss and the Limmat before flowing into the Rhine near Koblenz (CH). In the course of geological development the Aare was successively the upper course of the Danube, the Rhone and the Rhine.