The Gouffre du Padirac, Dordogne

Advantages: Excellent rock formations
Disadvantages: Queues.

The prospect of visiting the underground cave system the Gouffre De Padirac meant that I could spend the evening before telling the kids' stories about underground trolls and demons who for years abducted people from the Dordogne region whilst they slept and whilst underground you can still hear the cries of their trapped souls. Anyway after a sleepless night dreaming of being abducted from our tent I awoke rather heavy headed (the kids slept soundly) ...
...the forty minute drive from Sarlat towards Padirac. We arrived at about 9.15 a full forty five minutes after the opening time however the place was already teeming with visitors and we were almost put off by the long snaking queue that was in front of us and there was a constant stream of new arrivals. Admittedly we were visiting at the height of the summer holidays and at least half of those visiting seemed to be French visitors, if we had waited ... Read review