On the way from Blatten bei Naters to Belalp via the larch forest, you reach the settlement "Egga" about halfway along the path, which has an extraordinary location.
The path leads through the settlement, which, like a swallow's nest, nestles in a gentle semicircle on the eastern "shore" of a now marshy glacial-era hillside lake. A village lane, flanked uphill by residential houses and opposite by utility buildings, leads to an elongated square with a fountain. Almost half of the houses were built in the second half of the 16th century.
After the settlement, the path continues through the larch forest up to Belalp, rewarding you after the ascent with a magnificent view of the Great Aletsch Glacier.
