Hello Everyone!
This blog entry is about our holiday in the beautiful Verdon Gorge.
We left for the gorge with great expectations and excitement. The depth of the gorge in places is 500 metres deep and the deepest gorge in the world, second only to the Grand Canyon. We started a walk at Chalet de la Maline which is 893 meters high and descended to 555 meters at the river were we ate afternoon tea. It was amazing to be walking through all the wildlife. There were quite a few hills of just gravel! From the top of the gorge it looked like an awfully long way down to the river and when we arrived at the bottom it look just as long to climb to the top! In total it took us two and a half hours to walk the whole track.
As we drove along the gorge, we stopped at numerous look-outs to look at the views. At one we saw quite a few rock climbers who where abseiling down the cliff and then climbing back up. Even though there were safety bars on all the cliffs I still didn't feel safe! It was such a long way down.
On one of the nights we stayed in a castle in Trigance which overlooked the tiny village below. I enjoyed sitting in front of the fire and reading my favourite book. In the rooms there were small beds because in the 13th century people always slept sitting up.They were scared that their lungs would drown.
We climbed up to a church over Moustiers, which is another town we stayed in. There was a gold star hanging between two cliff faces, over the village. A 13th century crusader put it there after he did something that the royal family approved of. he won a battle and promised he would hang a gold star above his village if he should return alive.
While we were up there we saw two mountain goats looking over the church and when we tried to leave a bunch of goats were standing in a cave and stopped us from leaving! So we had to leave via another path! It was a great few days.
Au Revoir
Sean
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