Ideas of trips to do around Annecy.
The Glières Plateau is a limestone plateau in the Bornes Massif. Distant from La Roche-sur-Foron and Thorens-Glières by 29 km and 15 km respectively, it is located around the communes of Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières and Thorens-Glières. In the Francoprovençal language, glière means a rocky and sandy plateau without rivers. In the local speech, the word is […]
Discover Hautecombe Abbey on Lake du Bourget in front of Aix-les-Bains. Hautecombe Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery, later a Benedictine monastery, in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille near Aix-les-Bains in Savoy, France. For centuries it was the burial place of the members of the House of Savoy. It is visited by 150,000 tourists yearly. The origins of Hautecombe
Sixt Fer à Cheval is approximately 1h30 from Annecy. It is 6km from Samoens ski resort. There you will admire: the amazing Waterfall of Rouget (the Queen of the Alps”, The Sixt Circus (the biggest in the Alps with big waterfalls), The Gorges of Tines. This is the biggest natural reserve in Haute-Savoie, Grand Massif,
Chamonix Mont-Blanc, the internationally famous Capital of Skiing and Mountaineering, is also, and above all, a multi-faceted ski resort. From Chamonix, take the cable car over the forest to reach the Plan de l’Aiguille (2317 m). Admire the Glacier des Bossons, the Mont-Blanc, the Aiguille Verte, the Drus and the Aiguilles de Chamonix. Then take
Yvoire, a lovely medieval bourg, ideally situated on the expanse separating the “little lake” from the “great lake” of Lake Leman, still possesses some of the essential elemants of the fortifications of the 14th Century : the castle, doors, ramparts… Yvoire is next to Evian (the famous water from the Alps) and approximately 1h30 by
