Autumn Break – Pont Du Gard

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Ever since our visit to the ancient ruins in Rome, I was fascinated and intrigued. I wished I have the time and brain bytes to read more. Drink up the fountain of knowledge about the Roman empire. It has since been added to one of my to-do-list.

During our visits, architecture of this ancient civilisation left me in awe and made me feel little, literally. I was swarmed by a feeling that is usually invoked by the creation of mother nature and rarely by anything man made.

How on earth did these ancient beings put together such humongous structures without modern tools. To me, is an impossible feat.

When we read about the Roman aqueducts, I was curious, and so was Malcolm. Some of these aqueducts that are still around today, look like bridges. They were in fact water supply channels used for carrying water from the river to the cities and industrial sites. and were amongst the greatest engineering feats of the ancient world, which set a standard not equalled for over a thousand years after the fall of Rome.

Just south of France, there is Pont Du Gard, a 3 level aqueduct built by the Romans in the middle of the first century A.D. and we drove 7 hours, just to catch a glimpse of this magnificent structure.

We spent the whole afternoon just sitting by the Gard river, admiring the structure,with its reflection in the rippled water, from afar.

We hiked a bit and came across a wide varieties of vegetation in that region.

olive trees are aplenty, but his one is a rather old and unique one with twisted branches

Reaching the Sky, blue berries look-alike plants…

Brightly coloured toadstools. Knock knock, is Papa smurf home ?!

coffee break ? we thought this new extension, which includes a museum, some gift shops and cafes, was far too modern and is a huge mismatch to this ancient heritage site.

and while trying to climb on top this metal stump, Malcolm slipped and fell.

He ended up with a few mouthful of blood and a very bad bruise on his upper lips.

This marked the beginning of our autumn holiday.