Midi - Herault, Aude, Gard

The south of France or Midi is considered as being the biggest wineyard on the world. As this fact counts not enough for a visit - this area is like a sponge. Numerous caves can be found under the huge lime plateaus and small hills. Among them, there are one of the most beautifullest caves on earth! The area, or the region of Languedoc-Roussillion in special, is basically composed of the departments Gard, Herault, Aude and East Pyrenées. Amazing and beautiful medieval villages, castles and towns can be found here - amongst them the the biggest medieval city in the world: Carcassonne. Vegetation, climate and foodstuff are delightfully Mediterranean - and everything is trumped by the almost endless wineyards.
Every 100 m along the road, signs draw the attention to possible tastings! Don't miss them!.

The caves are either in the southern hills of the Grands Causes, the so called "Montagne Noir" or the northern premountains of the Pyrenees and offer everything what the caver desrires.
But the most spectacular thing about the caves in this region is the enormous and really breathtaking existence of aragonit and calcite formations and crystalls. This results of the irelatively high temperatures, to the organic acids of the vegetative soil cover as well as the composition of the rocks.
Definitely worth visitng after having established good contacts to local cavers! Most of this jewels of the underground are closed and quite well guarded!