Vanoise National Parks (Pralognan-la-Vanoise, Savoie, France)

Hi everyone, back for seconds. A couple weeks ago, I posted about Pralognan-la-Vanoise, a small really nice villagein the heart of Savoie. And I mentionned the Vanoise National Park inside of which Pralognan-la-Vanoise is situated.

I figured I should also post on the National Park. I put in the pictures I believe to be the best I took there, but they not all taken at the same period of time, some pictures have more snow of more yellowish grass because I took them earlier of later in the summer season (spring and fall).

All of them, I took on a hike. There are so many hikes there, the park is really big and you can hike all over the place but even staying in Pralognan-la-Vanoise you have a lot of options (>80 recognised and official trails).

And it's just paradise, finding yourself in there between the moutains, and the grass, the trees, the glaciers, the ibexes is something I could never recommend enough. As for a lot of national parcs the preservation of wildlife and of it's environment is crazy. The parc was created to prevent ibexes for going extinct in the region in the 1960's nowadays the ibex population grew a lot, it's far from uncommon to see, they're everywhere. on top of that the parc has the biggest glacier in europe, and guess what, you can go hike on it too (although you do need a guide for this one).

Everywhere you look is green, cliff, ice or chalets. Just, such a wild nature experience, France has a lot to offer and especially in the alps but I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like the Vanoise.

So I wanted to recommend this to you guys, hope you get to go there (and I get to hear all about it). I mostly talked about summer but if you're into ski touring and mountaineering you'll love winter there. But if you do go there, please follow park recgulations, I can send the "rulebook" if you like.

Thanks and godspeed