Goufree du Padriac

We slept great in our free park up with 2 other motorhomes next to us. It rained most of the night but this morning it had stopped.
At 9;30am we used the on site water relay and paid 3 euros by card to fill up our water from the slowest tap in the world. Then we took a 5 minute drive up the road to our first stop of the day and our first major cave.
Goufree du Padirac starts as a huge sinkhole 150 meters deep that then runs into a monstrous cave system that in total covers over 20 miles.
The tour is self guided and we were given an audio guide at the entrance. Then we descended the first 50 meters by elevator before going down steps the next 100 meters to the floor.
It was very wet because of all the rain and dimly lit which was a nightmare for pictures but we walked 200 meters before getting into a boat where we were ferried a further 500 meters until we got out and walked again following the path of the underground river next to us. This is as far as the public can go but cavers follow the river and at points they have to dive down and swim for up to a kilometre under water. It takes 3 days to follow the entire flow of the cave and river and come out 20 miles away.
The tour took us about 90 minutes and I feel it was worth the £16 each as it had been on my list since before we got Wanda. It’s more money than we would normally spend on an excursion whilst travelling.
From Gouffre du Padirac we then took a 5 mile journey to our next location and park up for the night.Read more