Tuesday 17/03/26
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| The Penitents as viewed from our house Unfortunately you can't see the village built along the base of the cliffs |
Les Mees, a town in the valley below us, has huge rock cliffs towering above it called the Penitents as it resembles monks in sackcloth. There is a trail from the town, up and around the huge rock formation which we've been meaning to hike ever since we saw the town.
Today, in spite of being a little stiff from romping in the snow yesterday, we decided to hike the trail before doing some shopping. The total trail, even though only 5km in length takes 2 hours to hike due to the very steep ascent (200m) and then descent again!
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| The higgledy piggledy houses of Les Mees |
It was quite steep and challenging in parts but absolutely spectacular. We commented on how rough-and-ready some of the trails are in France. In the UK they would installed guardrails along the entire route and in South Africa they would have built a zip-line from the top. 😀
I think we might take the day off tomorrow!
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