Le Gouffre und Pointe du Château

Today I went hiking around le gouffre de Plougrescant for 3-4 hours.

Plougrescant is a commune in the Côtes-d’Armor department, in Brittany. Hiking trails along the coast allow you to go around the point and discover several unusual places.

The Gouffre de Plougrescant is a large fault between two rocks, of dizzying height. Formed several million years ago following intense magmatic activity, the rock was then extensively sculpted by erosion. It is possible to deviate from the path to carefully climb the rocks in order to have a front-row seat to the waves crashing on the stone blocks. Also nicknamed “the abyss of the bay of hell”, it seems that on stormy days the spectacle is particularly impressive!

I went along the cost, crossed the headland and walked the other side of the coast back to the starting point. Fortunately it was a bit cloudy in the beginning, else it would have been too sunny...Read more