Navacelles

We went up to the Cirque de Navacelles recently, north of here near the Cevennes mountain range. It was spectacular, really extraordinary. We didn't really know what to expect, and I'm sure the photos don't do it justice, but what you will see is basically a wide gorge, carved by the river Vis. The river had originally routed around a promontory but had subsequently worked itself a direct route, leaving a crater-shaped gouge with a small hill in the middle.

Here's how we first saw it. We are up on the plateau, looking down. The village is a the top end of the hill in the middle of the 'crater'. By the way it's not snowy - that's the colour of the local rock.



Don't fall off ...


Now here's the view looking back up up from the road at the bottom that you can see in picture # 1 - the white strip across the green 'moat' leading to the central hill. I stood way up on the plateau to take picture #1.


Here's a zoom of the village from the other side of the 'crater', so you can see it a bit better. If you squint hard you can see the river that caused all of this, passing by the village.


Look at the pretty autumn colours...