The Legendary Ski Resort of France
French resort Chamonix-Mont-Blanc — one of the most picturesque places on a planet. To visit on this resort each climber respecting and the skier aspires, after all it is the historical native land of mountain skiing. Here in far 1924 the first-ever Winter Olympic Games have taken place.
And the history of the resort totals approximately 200 years! About this place in due time wrote Charles Dickens: «In valley Chamonix-Mont-Blanc — the finest landscapes which I ever saw. And, moreover, I cannot imagine something more remarkable in the nature».
Today Chamonix-Mont-Blanc breaks all records on capacity. Constantly on a resort lives more than 10,000 persons, and for tourists 90 hotels and 4,000 inhabited apartments are constructed. Besides, Frenchmen name Chamonix-Mont-Blanc the centre for shopping as the most fashionable boutiques and shops of firms and the companies from all world here are located.
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc — Ideal For Tourists
The main feature of a resort — a convenient site: nearby there are airports Annsi, Lyons, Geneva, Grenoble and the railway. Coming here, it is necessary to remember, that the resort lives seasonally. Distinguish high, average and low seasons. Attendance peak — a Christmas vacation and February. At this time on a resort not only the best snow, but also the most cheerful period in respect of entertainments. Professional sportsmen most of all appreciate an average season (March — the beginning of May).
By this time students and schoolboys come back in educational institutions, and on a resort becomes silent and quiet. The low season, strangely enough, here considers January. Frenchmen explain it to that on Chamonix-Mont-Blanc is too cold at this time for skiing. Perhaps, therefore the local low season is popular at Russian tourists.