Baba and his companions arrived in Basel, Switzerland, on the 6th at 5:30 in the morning, where they had to change trains. They got off and Baba went to have a bath and shave in the station's restroom, since he would have no time once he reached Zurich where he would be preoccupied meeting people. Baba had a brisk stroll on the platform and then, boarding another train at 7:30 A.M., they arrived two hours later in Zurich where they were met by Walter Mertens. Walter drove Baba, Kaka and Adi Jr. in his car, and the others followed in two other cars and a bus for the luggage. The parties disembarked seven miles out of the city at Walter's large fifteen-room house, Bünishof at Bünishoferstrasse 35 in Feldmeilen near the lake, where Baba and the mandali had stayed two years before. Walter's wife Hedi was joyously waiting to receive Baba at the house.
Baba was given an open, airy room in the left wing with a wonderful view; Chanji and Adi Jr. were in an adjoining room, and Tod in a room next to theirs. Baba went into the garden, where he met his lovers and Walter took some photographs.
Anita de Caro, who was living in Zurich, was there. Rano, Nonny and Ruano had been instructed to come from Paris, Margaret and Mabel from London, and Enid Corfe (on the 8th) from Italy. They stayed at the nearby Hotel Raben , since there was no room for them in the Mertenses' home.
On Saturday morning, 7 July, Baba went with the group to a nearby swimming area by the lake, where he watched them swim.
Before coming to Switzerland, Baba had asked the Mertens to find a quiet, yet "free and lofty," place where he could spend a day in seclusion. Their friend Meinrad Inglin, a novelist and hunter from the town of Schwyz, showed them a spot which they thought suitable. That afternoon, Baba went by car with Inglin and the Mertens family to inspect it. After driving up a narrow mountain road (interspersed with cow gates that had to be opened and closed to pass) they arrived atop a mountain.