Grand Tour de la Vanoise

A magnificent circular hike through the heart of Vanoise National Park, with glaciers, high passes and classic alpine villages. For a week you hike in France's first national park, around both the Vanoise glaciers – the Alps' largest continuous ice area – and the mighty Grande Casse massif, Savoy's highest mountain at 3,855 meters above sea level. If you have skied in Val d'Isere or Val Thorens and longed for the great mountains behind, this is the trip for you.

This is a physical but very rewarding hiking trip for the enthusiast. You can choose between walking with light day packing and transport of the rest of your luggage, or as an independent adventurer with everything on your back. In the evening, a welcoming mountain hut awaits with dinner, bed and breakfast, while you also get to recover a couple of nights at a hotel with breakfast. The environment is wild but the trails are easy to navigate and give you access to some of the Alps' most varied and dramatic environments: from high alpine passes to green valleys and lively mountain villages like Pralognan-la-Vanoise, Champagny-le-Haut and Tignes.