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FRANCE || French Alps (or Savoie) - travel vlog (Aguille de Midi, Chamonix, Annecy) 15 Degrees North

15° North are travelling again! This time we are heading to France, to visit the breath-taking Savoie – aka. The French Alps. There, we visit: Cirque du Fer-a-Cheval, Le Bout du Monde, Megeve, Yvoire, Annecy, Lac de Roselend, Chamonix, Mont Blanc tramway, Lac de Cheserys, Mer de Glace and the Aguille de Midi. Jérémy and Ben here again! We love to travel and to satisfy our wanderlust, we are on a European roadtrip exploring the best places for a city break on the continent. We love to escape Britain to experience the best culture, cuisine and attractions that Europe has to offer. If you’re a tourist like us and just need a good itinerary for what to do and how to do it when you’re in the French Alps, we will show you the best things to put on your itinerary. Make sure you subscribe:    / @15dntravel   Check out our France Playlist:    • FRANCE || Brittany - travel vlog (Mon...   Or our Europe Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auKuy... Follow us on Instagram: @fifteendegreesnorth Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Transcript: To get the best out of The Alps, you need to strap on your walking boots because this is not the kind of place where you can just drive to the best viewpoints. With altitudes here counted in the thousands of metres, you need to be prepared for a lot of uphill walking because you simply cannot miss seeing these enormous mountains up close. Surrounded by mountains on all sides, you start in the Cirque du Fer-a-Cheval – which translates literally as the Circus of the Horse Shoe, so called because of all the cliffs around you. From there, you head toward Le Bout du Monde, which means the end of the world. The path leads to a dead end, surrounded on all sides by cliffs. If you scaled the cliffs you would be in Switzerland, but this path is entirely impassable and the absolute end of France. In winter, the towns in the area revolve entirely around winter sports. But in summer, the cable cars and skiing infrastructure serve hikers instead. The Alps are also famous for their lakes, one of which is Lake Geneva (or Lake Leman in French). Hop over a couple of mountains and you’ll find Annecy. Known as “The Pearl of the French Alps”, the town sits at the mouth of Le Thiou, which flows directly into the lake. Back in the thirteenth century, this was the home of the Counts of Geneva. Today Annecy is a tourists’ paradise, where scores of holidaymakers come in the summer to take to its waters beneath its dramatic backdrop. Up in the foothills around Megeve, which we got to via cablecar. Cablecar – or telecabins as they’re known in French – are an absolute godsend when you’re walking in places like the Alps. Speaking of renowned resorts, we come to the jewel in Savoie’s crown. Chamonix. If there’s one place in the French Alps you’re likely to have heard of, it’s Chamonix. Sitting at the foot of Mont Blanc – the tallest mountain in the Alps and highest in Western Europe – the town is described as a “natural resort”, a description that we were a little sniffy about before we went. But it doesn’t take long before you realise that its tagline is absolutely true. Because while the town is very pretty, it’s what surrounds it that makes it so remarkable. When you arrive, we highly recommend that you buy the Mont Blanc Multipass, which gives you access to all the area’s attractions. We bought a two-day pass and started by hopping on the Mont Blanc tramway, which takes you up the slopes of the main mountain itself to a height of 2372m, making it the highest railway in France and the fourth highest in Europe. Our second excursion from Chamonix was to take a telecabin to the Lac de Cheserys. Excursion Three from Chamonix is a trip to Mer de Glace. Taking a funicular up the mountain, you come to the bottom of one of the last remaining glaciers in The Alps. Famously, the Mer de Glace has become a bit of a posterboy for global warming. A few decades ago and this valley was completely filled with the vast glacier that had been slowly eroding the rock for centuries, but now it’s a completely different story. As you descend the hundreds of steps from the station into the valley, you see markers that show where the edge of the glacier used to be, tracking its retreat over the decades to the spot it inhabit today. Our final excursion from Chamonix was the Big One. The Aguille de Midi. An “aguille” is a needle of rock, sticking high in the sky. In this case, it’s a needle that stands 3,842m high looking directly onto Mont Blanc. You take two telecabins, the second of which climbs almost vertically up to the aguille. It held the title of the world’s highest cable car for two decades after it opened in 1955 and still holds the record for the highest vertical cable car in the world. From the aguille, intrepid adventurers can head out onto the ice and explore this remarkable area.