The Vezere Valley» Vezere Valley Dordogne France

Cave with a View

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:07:44 +0000

This wonderful cave, nicely tucked away on a rock ledge just outside Les Eyzies de Tayac. This cave has a fantastic 180 degree view of the Vezere Valley. This cave is on high grounds, and you can see for miles around.

This cave can be explored on Walking Dordogne’s ” Valley of Caves” trip and “Ode to the Neanderthal” trip

www.walkingdordogne.com

Cave once River

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:02:55 +0000

Another one of my personal favorites, this very deep and windy cave was once a river. You can clearly see in the cut out ledges the various depths the water used to be.
This cave is well hidden, and has clearly been used for 1000’s of years for various purpose’s.

This cave can be explored on Walking Dordogne’s ” Valley of Caves” trip and “Ode to the Neanderthal” trip

www.walkingdordogne.com

Lascaux Painting

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:33:23 +0000

For more than 17 000 years, the bestiary of the Lascaux cave in southwestern France has survived the ravages of human history. Anyone entering this time capsule is confronted by four metre long bulls that appear to float across the massive vaults like religious apparitions. An enigmatic spotted beast with a round snout and straight, forward-pointing horns, plump horses in brilliant yellow and deer with treelike antlers-all seem in equal part intimates of the present and missives from some distant world. Which they are. Though the draftsmanship is strikingly Modernist – on exiting the cave in 1940, Pablo Picasso said, “We have invented nothing” – these creatures were painted and inscribed on the limestone walls during the Upper Paleolithic age, when everyone was a hunter-gatherer, and Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthal man.

Vezere River Dwellings

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:58:20 +0000

This cluster of troglodytes are about 15 – 20 meters high in the middle of a sheer rock face, that overlooks the Vezere River. These dwellings would have been used to hide from invaders coming up the river or the valley.
These troglodytes would have housed numerous large families.

These dwellings can be seen on Walking Dordogne’s ” Canoe & Hike the Vezere” trip and

www.walkingdordogne.com

Neanderthals Sunset

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:26:20 +0000

The view from a cave high on a prehistoric ridge looking over the vezere valley as the sun sets.
There are numerous caves on this rock overhang with clear evidence that these caves and shelters were well used by our Prehistoric ancestors.

This cave can be explored on Walking Dordogne’s ” Valley of Caves” trip and “Ode to the Neanderthal” trip