Huge region, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes covers 12 departments: Ain, Allier, Ardèche, Cantal, Drôme, Isère, Loire, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, Rhône, Savoie and Haute-Savoie. This fantastic destination offers a great variety of landscapes and tourist proposals, from the south of the Drôme with its cicadas and its lavender to the Ecrins massif, the wild jewel of the northern Alps. You have a choice of atmospheres, between Lyon, with its Confluences museum, and Chamonix, the Mecca of mountaineering, the vineyards of the Rhone valley and the olive groves of Nyonsais. Of course, with two national nature parks - the Vanoise and the Ecrins - and no less than seven regional nature parks, including those of the Vercors, the Chartreuse, the Monts d'Ardèche and the Provençal Baronnies, you have ski resorts, large domains or village resorts, high mountain or cow mountain hiking trails and a choice cycling route with the ViaRhôna. Ski in Val Thorens, the highest ski resort in Europe and the largest in France, canoe down the Ardèche River under the Pont d'Arc, stop at the Aven d'Orgnac and its prehistoric museum, a major site in France, and visit the reconstruction of the Chauvet cave with its cave paintings. Then stand in front of the fireplace, you are in the country of the Savoyard fondue and the gratin dauphinois, of the fin-gras of Mézenc and the chestnuts of Ardèche, of the picodon and the abundance of mountain pastures. And don't forget your Petit Futé Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to find your way!