For 10 days, from Aug 3 to Aug 13, 2013, we spent this year vacation in the Alps mountains
Notre Dame de
Bellecombe , the typical Savoyard architecture of the center of
village...
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| Le Village’s apartments where we stayed, are in traditional wood buildings |
...situated in the mountains at an altitude of 1150m, 15 km from Megève
Chamonix and its Valley of Mont Blanc located in the Haute Savoie department of the Rhone-Alpes region, 45 km from ND de Bellecombe
The “roof of Europe”, the highest peak in the Alps and Western Europe, has an altitude of 4810.90
meters
The Mer de Glace, the Ice Cave and the Montenvers Train are
one of the biggest attractions in the Chamonix valley
Departing from Chamonix, the famous little red rack railway brings you to the Montenvers site at 1913 m.
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| Panorama of Chamonix from the train |
The Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in France, 7kms long
and 200m deep, is one of the worlds
most visited natural sites
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| Cable-car station |
The Ice Cave/Grotto accessible either by a path (about one
hundred step between the cable-car station and the Ice Cave entrance!) or by
cable-car.
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| Ice sculptures |
The Ice Cave takes you into the heart of the glacier: carved
every year since the glaciers are moving about 70m every year, the ice
sculptures illustrate scenes from alpine life in the early 19th century.
Puygros
The vacation ended in family in Puygros, a little village
located in the Savoie department at an altitude of about 770 meters.
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| We have visited the "Puygrolains" (the inhabitants of Puygros) |
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