Monday 29 June 2015

Haute Alpes

We said goodbye to Mont Ventoux this morning but soon saw much higher mountains as we left the Drome and entered Haute Alpes (the high Alps).

We drove through spectacular rocky gorges, past hilltop villages and through valleys with huge orchards entirely covered by nets, past castles and lakes, and stopped for lunch looking down on one of the largest hydro-electric dams in Europe.

Tonight we are in Embrum, still part of Provence although the surrounding mountains and the chalet style houses seem a world away from villages like Bonnieux.

Embrum is built at the top of a rocky escarpment and has great views over the land below and to the lake and surrounding mountains. We're staying right in the old town's square near the impressive cathedral.















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