Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts

Monday, October 29, 2018

One of the most beautiful landscapes...

Hi!
I hope that your holiday is going great!
Today, I'd like to share with you a little part of my trip in France and Switzerland.
Here is the most beautiful landscape I've ever seen in my life! There are three pictures because besides it's beautiful, it's a 360° panorama!
I let you glance at the photos and I explain just below:

The summit of the Chasseron, in Switzerland, at an altitude of 1607 meters.  In the background, the Alps: the first mount on the right side is the Mont-Blanc. You can find lake Neuchâtel on the left side, in the valley, but you can't see lake Leman on the right because there is a sea of clouds.

Here and below, there is the view towards Swiss border and France, more precisely towards Franche-Comté.

I was in Pontarlier, Franche-Comté (or in the Haut-Doubs if you prefer 😄) and I decided to go to the Swiss side and ride my bike to the Chasseron, a mountain where a mountain bike race (Coupe du Chasseron) which is quite popular there, takes place each year. I couldn't do the same path than the racers because it's too tiring but I managed to reach the summit and I have to say to you that if you want to see it with your own eyes, you'll suffer a lot because it's very difficult if you don't cheat and dare to start from the bottom of the mountain with a bike or just with your feet instead of going there with a car and just walk or ride the last meters to the summit!
Indeed, we took two hours from the bottom to the summit with our bikes, by the road with VERY rough climbs. But the reward is priceless, isn't it?

Panorama




Obviously, rocks and downhills made our happiness!