The reason we dropped off at this intermediate station was to visit a botanical garden, which is described as Europe’s highest botanical garden (2173 m above sea level).
The other reason we stopped by was because the expensive cable car ticket fares has included the entry charge to this botanical garden. So,we didn’t want to waste it.
The garden was opened in 1987, and named after the flower Saussurea alpine which honours pioneering alpinist Horace-Benedict de Saussure (1740-1799).
Those flowers planted right in front of the center had captured my attention.
The garden is not a big one, so we are not in a rush.
Still happy with the junks in his hands and mouth.
Looking up, we have just been there some minutes ago.
Some of the alpine flowers which I think is beautiful…
I love this series photos of the 3 of us… 
About 30 minutes later, we left the garden.
Walking a short distance to the cable car station…
From the cable car, we walked down to the town center. The time was nearly 7 pm when we walked on this street of Courmayeur town center.
Wanted to find something to eat for dinner…though we were not particular hungry. There were quite some tourists on the streets, but not too many restaurants comparatively.
We couldn’t find any foods that we particularly want to eat neither. Finally, we had decided to buy the kids’ favorite foods from one of the street food sellers. We took all of the foods and returned to our hotel…
We all agreed the small yard outside our room is the best “dining place” of all. Furthermore, dinner for the night was made up of pizza, french fries, burgers and cup noddles….
Gary
Kevin C
Kevin T
Maggie
Maureen
QianLi
Rebecca Lim
Rina Lavallee
Shilpa
Yasuko
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