Camargue Museum, Wild Horses, and the Camargue Wild Life RefugeSep 29, 2014
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Our car
A bull
From inside
We bravely aimed our car south toward the Camargue Wild Life Refuge which borders on the Mediterranean Sea in far south France. After a multitude of roundabouts, we were in the wild and began to see the animals promised in our guide book. First we saw white wild horses and then bulls in the swampy fields on the side of the road. We had visited the Camargue Museum just before forging out into the wilder region and there, we saw what seemed to be views from our own (USA) wild west. There were cowboys on horses, with guns and all the same things we attribute to John Wayne movies. In fact there was a French cowboy movie playing in the museum’s theater!
At the dike, we met a couple from Switzerland who were camping in their RV. We had lunch ourselves, but in the back seat of our car. Getting away from the big city was great.
We returned to Avignon and had to look hard for a restaurant. However Tom got his wish of escargot at an excellent restaurant, Balthazar.