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Old Sep 29th, 2006 | 11:16 AM
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Easiest way from Aosta Valley to Mont Blanc?

Need to know the best way to get form Aosta Valley to Chamonix. Rail schedules show very long/complicated routes through switzerland. I cant go to switzerland cause dont have via. How do I travel. Do the cable rides in the area take u from italian side of mont blanc to chamonix. thanks
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Old Sep 29th, 2006 | 11:28 AM
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Aosta valley and Chamonix are just on the opposite sides of the Mont Blanc range. I am quite sure there is a bus or two through the Mont Blanc tunnel.
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Old Sep 29th, 2006 | 11:48 AM
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CHAMONIX - MOYEN D'ACCES The local Chamonix bus network services the entire Chamonix Valley from the ... Information concerning road conditions and access to the Mont-Blanc tunnel. ...
info.chamonix.com/infoAcces

this site gives timetables for Chamonix-Courmayeur buses, which run several times daily - Courmayeur is near the Italian end of the tunnel and has bus links to Pre-St-Didier and Aosta, each of which have train service.
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Old Sep 29th, 2006 | 02:29 PM
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I rented a car and drove it from Milan up through the Aosta valley (really beautiful) through the Mont Blanc Tunnel and down the other side to Dijon for some more of that Burgundy wine. I am a rail addict as those on this forum must know but I think that your route is definitely a drive-it job.

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Old Sep 29th, 2006 | 03:45 PM
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I haven't done it, but I believe you can cross the whole way in a series of cable-cars. Here is a blog by someone who did it in the opposite direction:

http://www.jonathanbaker.org/blog/eu05/25.html

It takes a bit of time, and is expensive. But it would be a whole lot more fun than the tunnel.
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Old Oct 2nd, 2006 | 06:13 AM
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I've taken these small two-person gondolas across the Sea of Ice and you'd be hard pressed to carry much luggage in them i think. But a great way to go if you have the probably extra $50 or so it would cost more than the bus. Certainly the most dramatic cable car ride i've been on - especially when the cars stop for what seems interminable time whilst loading or unloading at either end - leaving you eerily danling over the glaciers far below - very impressionable experience.
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