Millau Travel Guide

 black_mimi99 Says:  I didn’t Have chance to visit Millau city, with my tight schedule of my trip, so just can admired this city from far away. But one day Hope have a chance to transit in this city.Millau (pronounced mee-yo) squeezes between the Causse Noir and Causse du Larzac at the... 

 MikeBird Says:  Perched up on the plateau area of Lozère is the small town of Salles-Curan. It's not particularly memorable but we stopped by for something to eat and went for a wander in the older back streets of the town. The pictures show something of what we found. The window box... 

 MikeBird Says:  On the road out west from Millau towards Peyre you will pass directly underneath the Viaduct. There is a Museum/exhibition centre located very near to the main column. It was quite busy when we stopped by and we decided we didn't want to pay the extra entrance fee but it... 

 MikeBird Says:  There are very many canoe agencies along the River Tarn so just visit the local Tourist information office and they will happily put you in touch with one of the organisations. We chose to do the full day starting just up river from Ste Enimie. It's such a beautiful gorge... 

 MikeBird Says:  Try your hand at Parapente. Millau is a good place for novices to do this. We found a number of organisations that offer a tandem opportunity for beginners. Basically an experienced pilot does all the work and the novice sits in a big pouch below the pilot. My wife and my... 

 RichardBlaine Says:  There is no substitute for seeing it in person. NONE of the photos or video we looked at in preparation for the visit prepared us for the visual impact of this engineering marvel. Get the list of view points from the 'Air' and visit each and every one. At night, it something... 

 1 Review and 33 Opinions  A quiet, inexpensive and comfortable hotel with a free parking. Price : around 45 Euros for two +... 

 GUYON Says:  I do not advice to go to Mac Donald but this one is special.Some years ago, Jose Bove, the French anti-internationalist leader, and a goup of followers went there and took down the restaurant. They consider Mc Do as the symbol of the "mal-bouffe" (bad food), the US power and... 

 JLBG Says:  This picture shows the southwards view from the belvedere. In this direction, all the rocks have been deeply carved by erosion and offer the most typical aspect of the chaos with a labyrinth of dry rocks with rich vegetation growing in each crack. 

 JLBG Says:  The top belvedere offers a general view on the whole chaos. The path is slippery when wet, which was the case on our visit ! The Causse (the plateau) in the background is barren while the chaos has a very rich vegetation : when it rains on the Causse, water infiltrates very... 

 JLBG Says:  The inventor of the site, speleologist Albert Alfred Martel, has named each of these gigantic figures. This allowed him to remember more easily, which was which and note it on a map. We have seen the Porte de Mycènes. Other names in the chaos are "Arc de triomphe", the... 

 JLBG Says:  If you enlarge the picture, you will see a hole in a rock on top of the cliff. It has been bored by the combined action of water and of physical erosion (icing of the wet limestone especially). After several millions of year, it should give another archway. Don't forget to... 

 JLBG Says:  The archway is quite impressive. It is more than 15 m high. It has been called "la Porte de Mycènes" (Mycene Doorway) by Martel himself and has kept this name. Actually, if you think of the arches of "Arches National Park", the Porte de Mycènes will only look impressive... 

 JLBG Says:  This picture is a close up on the prehistoric shelters. Digging has revealed that our ancestors have lived in these shelters, possibly temporarily. They have left a few artifacts. They might have been shepherds looking after their flock, or hunters that needed a temporary... 

 JLBG Says:  For the modern geologist, Montpellier-le-Vieux is a megalapiaz, which the names given by specialists to the structure that has been formed along the time, very slowly, by the combined action of gullying and corrosion of limestone by rain waterIn some places, erosion has made... 

 JLBG Says:  Erosion has carved fabulous figures in the karstic rocks. This chaos was discovered at the end of XIXth century by the famous speleologist Edouard Alfred Martel who thought it had been undermined by powerful torrents coming from the north which whirlpools would have carved... 

 JLBG Says:  You can go out of the market of Place Foch by another covered passage. Millau, though only at 350 m elevation, can be pretty snowy. In Winter, these passages give a protected environment that allows to go from one house to another and to avoid the snow.