Thursday June 15.
The Carnac alignments are an exceptional Neolithic site with 7,000 year-old megaliths. The stones are found all over the region but these are the best example.
They were erected between the fifth and third millennium B.C., by sedentarised communities who raised livestock and farmed. The stone constructions form part of a landscape comprising individual and collective tombs.
The megaliths continue to represent a scientific challenge to archaeology and after various theories have fallen from favour, the long, fastidious process of decoding fragmented messages continues.
After gathering some information from the Tourist Office we bought tickets for the 40 minute tour on the open-air bus, which gave an overview of the site and a whip around the town, with an informative commentary delivered through headphones.
When we finished there we drove back through the village and down to the beach where we sat in the sand and ate our lunch baguettes. Quite a few people were severely sun-burnt and some were in the water. I waded knee-deep and think it was colder than Scotts Head in October!
We then drove down the peninsula towards Quiberon and stopped to watch the wind-surfers and beach buggies racing ahead of the brisk wind. A few people were enjoying the sun in the lee of the sand-hills but it was a bit chilly for us thin-blooded Aussies.
On our way back towards Carnac, we kept our eyes open for the tree sculptures Libby and Eric told us about. They really were very unusual and there were probably more than a hundred of them. Amazing really.
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