Cirque de Navacelles

Another stunning site we visited not too far from our Martian base was the Cirque de Navacelles. Here the little river Vis, over many millions of years has cut a canyon a thousand feet deep into the limestone causse. Not content with this, it has eroded a circular meander, then cut across the neck of this to leave a huge basin with a hump of rock in the middle  of an ox-bow lake. This latter has dried up eons ago to leave a circle of fertile ground at the bottom of the Cirque, the only cultivable land for miles around. A little town has grown up in the bowl, the only access to which is by two narrow roads making a terrifying descent or ascent to and from  the rim of the bowl. A very impressive place to visit if you`ve a good head for heights and are not scared to drive in mountain road conditions. In fact we followed two intrepid camping cars out of the depths and marvelled at their bravery, I wouldn`t have fancied driving such a vehicle on the tight hairpins leading up to the summit level. Bravery or foolhardiness who could say!  Still they escaped without damage, so must have known what they were about.

      It`s bed time so bye for now!