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Lyon - The Holiday For Active People |
Lyon - The Holiday For Active People
Lyon is the capital of the Rhone-Alpes region and the second largest
city in France. You can get there from Paris
by TGV for two hours. If you prefer traveling by air there are flights
also departing from Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport. There are two
more airports 20km from Lyon, which serve for regional and low-cost
flights. If you want to travel
France
by car there is a lot of road networks in Lyon joining
several
motorways: A6 (to Paris), A7 (to Marseille), A42 (to Geneve), A43
(Grenoble).
If you prefer winter kinds of sport the mountains of Lyon offer vast
snowfields. Experienced skiers, snowboarders, hikers in
snowshoes
as well as amateur alpinists will find there a great opportunity for
activity in the surrounding mountains. You should know
that the
Olympic Games has been held in Rhone-Alpes three
times. So
you can imagine what a great deal of wonderful facilities for
sport activities have been built there and they all are for you now.
You may have a rest with your family, friends or alone, may choose the
guide who will show the resort in its amazing beauty. And there are a
lot of things you should see: from marvelous views of the nature of
this region to its traditional villages. Among, the most known for
Alpine skiing are les Deux-Alpes, la Plagne, Megeve, Tignes, Val
d’Isere, Courchevel and Chamonix-Mont Blanc.
If you want just to relax without doing any activity or
sightseeing, Lyon can offer you some veritable oases of
greenery places right in the center of the city. There are not
only different parks, zoos which you can attend with your children, but
also you can visit famous Grand Lyon Aquarium. Here people may see the
various representatives of the sea world through the large Aquarium as
if the animals are just beside them.
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