For a deeply moving experience, take a 40 minute guided tour of underground galleries and passages. There’s a magnificent 45m high waterfall, at Seythenex, one of the most popular attractions in the French Alps.

The secret gardens at Vaulx offer you more than 7,000m sq of extraordinary gardens in a variety of styles, including the Pleasure Garden, Andalusia Garden and Apothecary's Garden. Sssh – don’t tell anyone.

Well worth the drive from Aix-Les-Bains, Mont Revard stands over 1,500m tall with outstanding views over the surrounding countryside. On a clear day, you can see forever, well at least you might make out the Rhône snaking its way across the landscape, and Mont Blanc in the distance.