Summer
Finding, enjoying, understanding. Balmly summer warmth bathes the valley. Water gurgles from pond to pond in pine forests and vineyards.
A cool breeze wafts down from the glaciers. The mountain tops seem closer to reaching the heavens than anything else on earth. The Rhone River is like a blue ribbon, fed by numerous tributaries that emerge from steep valleys. In Goms, the river is wild, in the lower Valais, gentle. It flows past mountain villages of sun-scorched houses, past towns where ancient history and modern impulses combine, past orchards and vineyards, until, well tamed, it enters Lake Geneva. In short, it is a landscape of opposites; of steep rock faces and soaring Alps; of German and French; of northern and Mediterranean flair. It is a region of 4,000 metre peaks, the twelve largest glaciers and a multitude of Alpine passes.
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5 Comments
Wagner Saes
Best vacation I had with my wife was in this magnifique pays! We expect to return soon...
Wednesday, Oct 5, 2011 7:43 PM
Mary Duffy
what an amazing country. Not somewhere you would go on a typical summer holiday. what a beautiful prize to win.
Friday, Jul 22, 2011 1:10 PM
Norah
Wish I was there now
Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 4:36 PM
Val
Wish I was there now
Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 10:29 AM
brian cotter
like the good healthy air in switz the weather is only secondary=love the old places this where you relax and take in a glass of wine with cheese
Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 10:36 AM