"Fabulous figures" Top 5 Page for this destination Millau Off The Beaten Path Tip by JLBG

Erosion has carved fabulous figures in the karstic rocks. This chaos was discovered at the end of XIXth century by the famous speleologist Edouard Alfred Martel who thought it had been undermined by powerful torrents coming from the north which whirlpools would have carved the surface of the "Causse noir" (the plateau). Martel had given names of fabulous figures to every rock, which can still be seen on maps !