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  • Day 32

    To Domme Dordogne Tue 3 Oct 2023

    October 3, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    Up at 6.45am, shower, breakfast and the concierge service fellow came around 9.30am to inspect the apartment and returned the 100 euro cash deposit. Left Residence Eterle, Soucastet, 14 L, Avenue de Saint Sauveur, Luz-Saint-Sauveur in the Occitania region of the French Pyrenees around 10.45am. Picnic lunch in a beautiful nineteenth century village Gigouzac in the Occitania French region about 40 minutes drive before Cenac-et-Saint-Julienne in the Dordogne French region around 2pm. We arrived at the Domme hilltop town in Dordogne France around 3pm and we were able to get into the 3.30pm Grotte de Domme limestone cave tour which lasted 40 minutes. This cave has stalactites and stalagmites, straws and shawls. The entrance to the Domme cave is located under the 17th century Hall currently used as the tourist office. The cave extends under the stone houses of the village. Discovered in 1912, the cave was not really exploited until 1954. The current show cave route descended through three cave levels and is 450 metres in length.Read more