Below, we took a tour in the morning and attended an organ concert in the evening.

Below -  The clock plays music and figures march, in the pedestrian zone of Old Lausanne

Lausanne is a city of incredibly steep hills that has developed tiered above the lake on a succession of compact, south-facing terraces. Vistas of blue water, glittering sunlight and the purple and grey of the looming, whitecapped Savoy Alps peep through between gaps in buildings or at the ends of steeply dropping alleys.

           

Lausanne has its own glamorous lakeside resort of Ouchy . We visited it, below.

           

Much of the city is still wooded, there are plenty of parks, and the tree-lined lakefront promenades spill over with lush, beds of vibrantly colorful flowers. We hiked the Le chemin de la Vuachère which follows the Vuachère River along a narrow and steep trail through the forest.  It is also known as les traces du renard or trail of the fox.
 To follow this path, we looked for the fox footprints on the ground to designate which direction to go.