Gouffre de Padirac

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Gouffre de Padirac, Cave, Dordogne, France

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Cross the eastern border of the Dordogne region into Lot, and you will find the Gouffre de Padirac. The enormous chasm at Padirac is about 99 metres around the rim, and you will descend 75 metres to enter the cave system.

After the initial descent, you get in a boat for an eerie trip along a subterranean stream, and then pass through various underground caverns full of extraordinary rock formations. For me, this is the perfect caves - I love it!

Having experienced the caves themselves you can take a look at satans footprint, left when he was trying to evade Saint Martin!

The caves at Padirac are not far from Rocamadour and easy to combine the two in the same trip.

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Autoire (5km), Bretenoux (10km), Carennac (9km), Curemonte (18km), Dordogne Valley (24km), Loubressac (6km), Martel (16km) and Rocamadour (12km).
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