Well, it's certainly an attention grabbing headline!
I'm not convinced that "fountain of youth" is strictly true, Appenzell tends to conjure up words like sleepy and unspoilt, but it's what the people at the tourist office say, so it must be true.
That's probably because it has a wealth of rich mineral springs, and visitors have been coming for over 100 years to bathe.
There are a range of hotels in Appenzell offering wellness breaks, often combining Swiss water and air with eastern philosophy and treatments: whey treatments and Kneipp cures alongside Ayurveda, Tai-Chi and Chi-Yung beauty weeks.
Wellness has been a topic in Appenzell long before the word became overused, and I have to say the air is about as fresh as you can get. Plenty of hills to walk up and down too.
If you like the idea, here's a list of some Health and wellness hotels in Appenzellerland:
- Gonten – Hotel Jakobsbad, Kurhaus Bad Gonten
- Heiden – Hotel Heiden, Kurhaus Sunnematt
- Schwellbrunn – Kurhaus Sonnenberg
- Speicher – Appenzellerhof
- Walzenhausen – Hotel Walzenhausen
- Weissbad – Hotel Hof Weissbad
- Wienacht – Hotel Seeblick
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