CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 196 km round trip from Larmor-Baden - roughly 3 h 29 in the saddle. The stops in between: Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M, Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul, Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur and back through Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul.
The Gulf of Morbihan is a small sea, mor bihan in Breton, almost closed off from the Atlantic by a narrow gap at the entrance, and filled with islands: some say there are as many as there are days in the year, though the count depends on the tide. Water pours in and out through the narrows with such force that the current can run at several knots, and the shores are a patchwork of oyster beds, salt marshes and little harbours. The points where rivers meet the gulf, like this one, are lively places, full of birds, and shaped by the tides.
Read the complete Confluence des trois rivières write-up.
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Confluence des trois rivières is where the day begins. Next is Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M.
The fields at Carnac look like a parade ground that someone forgot to dismiss. Thousands of standing stones, grey and lichen-streaked, stand in long parallel rows across the heath, running for more than a kilometre in the great alignments at Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan. They were put up in the Neolithic, several thousand years before the Romans, and nobody knows exactly why. Astronomy, burial and ritual have all been proposed, and a Breton legend offers a quicker answer: Saint Cornély, chased by Roman soldiers, turned them into stone. The wider area of the Morbihan, with its tombs, dolmens and tumuli, has recently been listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M write-up.
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Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M comes up 19 km in. Next is Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul.
Quiberon is a thin finger of granite that points south into the Atlantic from the Breton coast, fourteen kilometres long and in places hardly a couple of hundred metres wide.
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37 km in you reach Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul. Next is Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur.
Carnac is the greatest concentration of standing stones in the world, and the sheer number is hard to believe until you see it. More than three thousand granite blocks, set in long, straight rows, march across the heathland north of the town, in alignments called Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan. They were raised by Neolithic people between about 4500 and 3300 BC, long before Stonehenge or the pyramids, and nobody knows exactly why. Theories range from calendars and tombs to ritual processions, and the stones themselves, grey, lichened and leaning, stay silent. The coastal landscape of Morbihan is now recognised on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Read the complete Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur write-up.
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Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur, about halfway. Next is back through Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul.
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Read the complete Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul write-up.
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back through Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul sits at 75 km, about halfway. Next is back through Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M write-up.
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back through Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M comes up 93 km in. Next is Confluence des trois rivières.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Confluence des trois rivières write-up.
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Confluence des trois rivières closes the day.
Confluence des trois rivières → Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M → Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul → Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur → back through Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul → back through Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of M → Confluence des trois rivières is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.