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Annecy trip details...


Let me start with this old update on Annecy trip, and then I will go on back and share all other weekends later on the trips to Aix-Les-Bains and my second trip to Chamonix and on the Secessaney ones.

It was in the month of August, We had a crowd of around 50000 people in Annecy. This is the first time I have ever seen a crowd in this place, No I saw a bigger one when I was in France on 1-May-2002 Oh that as the election time and the same coupled with the May day celebration …my god I can’t imagine what it was like.

Ok now the festival of the lake d'annecy is the major traditional event of the festival season which takes place each year first Saturday of August. During the evening, while the sun laying down, tens of thousands of spectators gathered on Pâquier, vis-a-vis with the lake to attend a gigantic spectacle "Pyromelodic" which mixes during more 1h30 without interruption the fireworks, the music and the text, the lights and the lasers. It’s a event to watch. We just drove to Annecy that evening. We took a pedaling boat and went across the lake. We just go the ticket to watch it from a long distance. Then we went to the place designated for us to watch the firework and other laser shows etc.

The magic of water, the music and pyrotechny make Festival of the Lake each summer a famous event: many tickets of entry are sold by advance (platforms and lawns) while 150 000 people attend the event since banks of the lake, surrounding mountains or hundreds of boats gathered behind the zone of shooting of the fireworks.

Organized by Annecy Events, it is held each year according to a different topic ("Songs of Europe" in 2003, "film Musics" in 2004). This year very nice movie numbers are played. The best thing is the fire works are designed to be in sink with the music. The origin of the festival of the lake d'Annecy date of 1860, from the 28 to August 31 of this year, Emperor Napoleon III and l'empress Eugenie are the hosts in Annecy at the time of the festivities for the fastening of Savoy in France. To honor of their majesties, the city organizes a festival of lake night which marks the origin of traditional “Fête of the Lake”. Average the techniques deployed are enormous: lt’s the space of the spectacle: 700 meters points of shooting of the fireworks: 4 large punt forms of 250 m2 each one, 21 punt forms of 25 m2, 20 mobile rafts of shooting. This device ensures a perfect vision of the spectacle for all the spectators. An approximate number of projectiles:2305 candles, 16 500 bombs, 750 pots with fire a number of points of wiring for sound: 14 autonomous electric output: 1250 kcVa including 450 helped (emergency lighting of the site and wiring for sound).

I was just sitting on the banks with my legs dripping in the water, and after a while moved to a boat there and started lying down and having an aerial view. This event I will never forget in life.

The pictures captured during the visit are stored here.