Hiking guide - Lake Geneva (Geneva, Chablais, Riviera, Lavaux, The Coast, Jura) | Rother (French)

Guide to 50 hiking in the Lake Geneva region - Geneva, Chablais, Riviera, Lavaux, the coast, Jura - edited by Rother.

A brief description of the hike with all important information, a color map and a precise description of the itinerary for each excursion facilitate the choice and orientation on site.

Summary and example - type photo. 176 pages, 74 color photos, 49 altitude profiles, 49 maps at 1:50 000 / 1:75 000/1: 100 000, two synoptic maps at 1: 500,000 and 1: 1,000,000.

Editor's note: At the southern end of Lake Geneva, surrounded by the highest peaks of the Alps and Jura, is Geneva, the smallest metropolis of the World and hometown of Jean Jaques Rousseau. His novel epis - tolaire Julie or the new helois written in 1761 has largely helped to trigger this famous craze for the Alps. There is no other region in the Alps on which and in which we have written so much.

- fragment="1"> Daniel Anker, one of the most famous authors of books on the mountains and alpine journalist in Switzerland, described in this Rother Hiking guide 49 particularly seductive hikes around the largest lake in Europe From the west: on the walls and pastures of the salève, on the peaks of the Chablais, towards the teeth of the South and Chillon Castle near Montreux, through the slopes planted with vineyards of Lavaux and the coast, on the ridges Jura as well as in the Parks of Lausanne and Geneva. The author has chosen hikes with very diverse difficulty levels - of the tranquil walk on the walk along the lake to the difficult mountain excursions through forest hikes. Via Ferrata lovers are not forgotten either. The hikers wishing to embark on a long peregrination will find indications to associate without problem the excursions presented in a course of thirteen days around Lake Geneva.

The precise descriptions of each hike in this rother guide are illustrated by photos in significant colors and supplemented by detailed maps with routes as well as thus only by altitude profiles indicating the main stage destinations, the conditions of climb and the working hours. Added to this are numerous tips about road links, curiosities, accommodation, public transportation - not to mention literature, from Rousseau to Hemingway.