Traouïero valleyI hesitate to do this outing solo. In the end, I opt for a guided tour, you learn and discover so much more! I consult the Nature Spaces Come Alive guide to find out the schedule. It falls well: there is one in 2 hours!”
Hiking shoes put on, camera and water bottle in the backpack, here we go. Meeting point at the tide mill on the bridge of Ploumanac’h. Here, this one also we will have to visit it!
Traouïero valley
Balade randonnée en familleBut beware: quiet! As we enter this undergrowth we have the impression of arriving in another world! No more noise except the song of the birds and the one of the small stream the Kerougant which marks the separation between the cities of Perros-Guirec and Trégastel. To access from one bank to the other, we pass over a tombstone dating from 1833. Quite surprising, but not at the time, it was common to give them a second life!
The sense of smell is on alert! The vegetation is lush and very varied. Oaks and chestnut trees form a vault, hiding the sky from us in places. Fond of flora, my friend Guillaume is in the “7th sky”. Along the walk, we discover a fern more than 300 million years old, royal osmonds, various lichens … As far as I am concerned I have big gaps on the names of plants, but I recognize some of them: heather, gorse, Venus navel, nice name!
Vallée des Traouiéro
Traouïero valley
Maître Martin
Traouïero valleyOur guide is not left out! 8 granite pillars attest to the presence of a rolling bridge to transport in carts, the granite blocks from the quarry to the lower part of the valley.
Here we are in front of the leper’s cave…which was occupied by a hermit; we can guess his trough dug in the granite, where good people came to deposit food for him; then comes the smugglers’ one in which horses were hidden during the war, a place of gallant rendezvous too. I wonder about the authenticity of these revelations! One can imagine that this valley was rather frequented!
And the korrigans? Well they too had their cave! Laurent, who was a bit behind, suddenly wakes up! Legends are his hobby! But for this theme, we made an appointment for a night outing told in this same valley. Torchlight to be foreseen, you never know! It would be frowned upon to walk on a small nocturnal inhabitant !
Finally 3 hours… it passes quickly !
As soon as the sun goes down, the korrigans come out of the bowels of the earth to dance and sing but be careful if you run into them…
Soirée festive
