Private tour in Chamonix Claire J
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I have been living in Haute-Savoie for 30 years, I am married and I am a 54-year-old mother of four. I always loved travelling with my family to Asia, North and Central America, Oceania and Europe. We loved mixing French and foreign cultures as well as discovering beautiful landscapes. My hobbies are music and sport. I can play piano, organ and guitar. I like alpine skiing, ski touring, cross-country skiing in winter, hiking and water skiing in summer. As a former executive, I have benefited from 25 years experience in sales, export, strategic planning and finance before setting up my own business. Over the years, I had realized how important travel, tourism, discoveries and meeting new people were to me. I became a guide with the aim of letting French and foreign visitors discover Savoie and Haute-Savoie in the most pleasant way. I structured my touristic agency as a travel agent combined with my Heritage Guide agreement. I am also a biographer, it gives me the opportunity to meet local people and tell stories about their life and experience. Being a tour guide allows me to show the variety of the Savoie Mont-Blanc region. I like explaining how people lived there before, how it became famous thanks to mountaineering, how is life nowadays and also showing high-quality french products such as cheese, wine, bread. . . The region Savoie Mont-Blanc is well-known for its sport activities in winter as well as in summer, but it is less known for the richness of its baroque style architecture, its musical events and its History. As a guide I always try to share my knowledge and my passion for these different aspects, according to your wishes. I am really keen to offer tours in a friendly, secure atmosphere, so that you can totally relax. I am ready to customize your tours and be flexible according to your requests. I will be so happy to welcome you soon, to accompany you throughout the whole tour and to share the delightful treasures of the Savoie Mont-Blanc region with you. Heritage guide agreement in the Savoie Mont-Blanc region Multi-national MBA with ESCP Europe in 1988, studying in Paris, Oxford and Berlin. I am not a mountain guide and will not be able to guide you in mountaineering and hiking tours, but I will accompany you during tours organized by myself with licensed mountain guides.
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At the foot of the Majestic Mont Blanc, you will come and discover this famous mountaineering place, Chamonix, its magnificent landscapes, its unique atmosphere mixing genres: from the mountain-climbing expert to the wanderer and nature lover, you will cross different people. As I am also a biographer I can tell you anecdotes and little stories about people who used to live in Savoie Mont Blanc region and those who are living there nowadays. I will tell you about a friend of mine who is now 63 and who was dreaming about the Malabar Princess which had crashed in the Mont Blanc Massif when he was a child. He then became a mountain guide to be able to explore the mountains and discover what the glaciers had swallowed up. . .
- We will visit together the center of this charming city of Chamonix, during our walking-tour I will tell you the history of mountaineering and skiing in Chamonix. - Then, thanks to the famous Aiguille du Midi cable car, we will have a round trip to the summit of the «Aiguille du Midi», at 3800 meters high - We will also visit either the Crystal Museum or the Alpine museum, according to your wishes and opening times. This tour can be tailored to your wishes and in line with realistic expectations, please contact me with your questions.
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This is a walking tour / Transportation in the valley can be arranged at your request, please contact me for a quote. If needed, transportation will be with my private vehicle, a comfortable Volkswagen Multivan, TDI 4 motion. Of course, if you are staying a bit away from the center, I will come and pick you at your hotel free of charge.
Chamonix, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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