You can make an excursion to the Camargue reserve in various ways - you can rent a house and live there : ), you can get there during a horseback ride, or you can use the services of a sightseeing train.
Technical information. The train departs from the tour. office (Avenue Van Gogh, 5), first flight at 11:00, cost €7 (price 2013) The audio guide is in French. A printout of all information is available in German and Italian.
What is Camargue? This is a unique ecosystem located between the two branches of the Rhone. The territory here is partly at the level, partly below sea level, so the entire reserve is a chain of blue lagoons-marshes, which are interspersed with green spots of the plain.
Idyllic rural landscape. Shepherds' houses - gardians on one side, narrow ditches with water on the other. The role of the fence is played by reeds, which greatly complicates the process of photographing : )
Huts-huts under a reed roof - wild boars (cabane).
The house is oriented in a special way relative to the cardinal points, so that its rounded back part is directed towards the mistral. Such buildings, ingenious in their simplicity, make it possible to more or less comfortably survive the mistral, keep warm in the cold and cool in the heat.
Stop near the horses. The driver of the train distributes bread to all those who are thirsty to feed and stroke the white miracle of the Camargue. These horses are born as bay foals and turn white by the age of four.
Pink flamingos in the lake. Pasture of Camargue bulls, heroes of the local bullfight. The sun. Air. Silence and peace. Wonderful place!
Technical information. The train departs from the tour. office (Avenue Van Gogh, 5), first flight at 11:00, cost €7 (price 2013) The audio guide is in French. A printout of all information is available in German and Italian.
What is Camargue? This is a unique ecosystem located between the two branches of the Rhone. The territory here is partly at the level, partly below sea level, so the entire reserve is a chain of blue lagoons-marshes, which are interspersed with green spots of the plain.
Idyllic rural landscape. Shepherds' houses - gardians on one side, narrow ditches with water on the other. The role of the fence is played by reeds, which greatly complicates the process of photographing : )
Huts-huts under a reed roof - wild boars (cabane).
The house is oriented in a special way relative to the cardinal points, so that its rounded back part is directed towards the mistral. Such buildings, ingenious in their simplicity, make it possible to more or less comfortably survive the mistral, keep warm in the cold and cool in the heat.
Stop near the horses. The driver of the train distributes bread to all those who are thirsty to feed and stroke the white miracle of the Camargue. These horses are born as bay foals and turn white by the age of four.
Pink flamingos in the lake. Pasture of Camargue bulls, heroes of the local bullfight. The sun. Air. Silence and peace. Wonderful place!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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