European Journal of five-tourism in the Alps experience (top)

2008 August 9, fine sand, wood, Mont Blanc glacier

Last night in the hotel, is a wooden structure of the two-storey cottage, a solitary is located in a covered grassy hillside, in the face of a huge glacier.

The scenery is very beautiful. For such accommodation, I was very satisfied. Our room was on the side towards the Hill, the following is the basement window sill, windowsill and grassland. Sleeping in bed, unable to see the glacier seems to go under, the broken window.

The hotel owner is the United Kingdom, it was yesterday to meet us.

Beaver. The hotel of the sheets, the bathroom cleaning, are you believed him. Morning saw him driving a lawn mower, collecting the front lawn. The air was full of the smell of grass, smells good. He prepared breakfast milk, coffee, fruit juice, honey, Croissant and oatmeal. Oatmeal is soaked in milk, hot and cold food. The honey used to dip the bread. For me, the breakfast is very delicious, because in contrast to usual our breakfast is much simpler.

Alps tour of core areas in the town of wood.

Where you can sit on the main peak Mont Blanc cable car directly, or you can take train to the mountains, in a hillside looking down to the glacier and the glacial ice cave, inside, tour.

From our residence stay bassoon to sand the wood, the town also has four or five kilometers, the hotel provides a ticket valid for two days.

Regardless of the number of times. The car scheduled in that line up and running, travel is still very convenient.

This one is in a Canyon, a lot like the way we live in a hotel of small villas, colourful, building blocks like decorations on the hillside, very nice.

A town to sand the wood.

It was a very pretty town, although many tourists, but the streets clean exception.

Housing the singular variety of modern and ancient, sets, luxury and simplicity. Feet of the snow under the slush on drips merged into rivers rise visible snow snow Mont Blanc. A floating in the sky turned a colourful paraglider. Look at those up‑and‑down umbrella, the human mind to so far.

The town is selling outdoor store.

See dazzling like posters, wallet, you can enjoy without drum horizon.

Daughter last to tourism, has been to the mountain Mont Blanc.

Take tram 30 euro a person. This time we choose to sit small train into the mountain to see the glacier. Alps train is known already for a long time. That's an engineer invented 100 years ago. In all, the principle is simple, Rails and the bottom of the Middle compartment with a gear, so the train down the Hill on the ground. However, be the first to come out and put it into practice is always great. 21 Euro round trip ticket. In this one, the rest are without charge. Glacier of the tramway is free of charge. If the time enough ample, hiking up the mountain, outdoor bar tents (tent area charge 5 euro per person), travel in the Alps, at little expense.

Small train began to climb.

Sometimes a walk through the Woods, sometimes you want to cross the Canyon, more time is close to the cliff. With a high degree of variation, the landscape is constantly changing. Small train for visitors were all very excited. After all, this is a world renowned mountain railway. These visitors come from all over the world, sitting in front of us is a husband and wife to the United States, with two children. Children are very lively, as parents of mercy and love. Remember that Tolstoy said a famous saying, first sentence is: happy families alike. Yes, it transcends time and transcends space.

More than half an hour, the train to the station.

Out of the platform, Wow, an s-shaped ice road in the valley below. Why do I have to say it is the ice road, because that's exactly the glacial plain lie there, the Valley of the space is filled, a glittering white road. This is also the unique landscape of the Mont Blanc glacier?

See Ice cave to walk some distance down the Hill.

Follow the televised, along the rugged road down the Hill. Not many will, to a plank road. Far away you can see a ice wall stand. It should be said at the academic language glacier ice tongue? walk plank road, into the Ice Cave. The Ice Cave, it is very common, but thought it was dug out on artificial glaciers, feel a bit mean.

There is snow on Earth there are glaciers, but because of the latitude of the location of the snowy peaks, glaciers of stability is different.

Meili snow mountain glaciers in China, we can say that it is the most unstable glacier, because the latitude is low, the glacier movement is fast. If a sketch of the glacier above Meili is also playing a hole for visitors, it is inconceivable. Perhaps today, tomorrow it collapse. But here, should be the high latitude, Glacier changes are small, relatively stable?, in short, to come up with the idea to develop tourism, is a very good idea. As the glaciers, the Mont Blanc and the country West of those rivers, or appear to be more general. Its advantage is that people can close it.

Uphill ride a cable car, not a will to the station.

Is at noon, or the dry food drink cold water. Platform near the restaurant, daughter wants to eat ice cream, would like to ask for my approval. In fact, my daughter is not small, but now she did not spend my money, it may be that I've given her to instill a sense of simple living in too much, in front of me, she always put it very economical, luxury is something that should give me beforehand. Fortunately, daughter since 1998, leaving out reading, 10 years, and my mother is to spend little time, a rare faking is not very difficult. Haha I still a little self-knowledge.

Also sitting small train down the Hill.

Time is still early, in the small town of Muni casually stroll. Last bus back to the hotel before, bought a pizza 8. 2 Europe, a great piece, with exquisite box contained. Daughter of Tommy in hand, carefully with the hotel when the supper. I, myself have electric Cup, do a bit of rice, and the egg, tomato and sausage, ate a simple Chinese meal.

Records about today's costs: sand Muni train 21 Euro per person for food: 21.

12-28 euro per person accommodation

(Alps Mont Blanc glacier)

(In ice tongue sinking Ice Cave)

(Sky paragliders)

(Sand Muni nearby tent area)

(Scabbard-Mont Blanc nearby peaks)