American Reacts Top 25 Places To Visit in France - Travel Guide | Ryan Shirley
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France is certainly one of the most geographically and culturally diverse countries in Europe. There are huge differences in cuisine, lifestyle, architecture, dialect/language, landscape and flora, especially between the far north and the far south. When you compare Artois or Brittany with Provence or the Languedoc, it's hard to imagine that they are part of the same country.
Btw, you might want to check out Portugal. I think it's massively underrated.
Tu as oublié les outre-mer....
@@Rider.Looper2 Sorry. You are right. 😅
France is the country of the beauty in all it aspects
@@panther7748 aucun problème😁
c'est juste que beaucoup de personnes oublie souvent que la France 🇨🇵
Possède des territoires sur les 5 continent...🌍🌎🌏
En tout cas merci à toi pour ta bienveillance 😃
no problem😁 it's just that many people often forget that France 🇨🇵 Has territories on the 5 continents...🌍🌎🌏 In any case, thank you for your kindness 😃
@@Rider.Looper2 Sauf que faut parler anglais là
To be fair, France's so diverse and interesting, as a Frenchman myself, I'm feeling like I don't know well my country... And I can tell I have visited a lot of place.
I love my country 🇫🇷🇫🇷
That's so true, i can spend my holiday in a single French Region and still feel like i missed lot of things (last one i did was Normandie, and it's absolutely gorgeous, cities and landscape alike)
Bah ouais mon gras ! On gère 😂
I have the same feeling, so many beautiful places i dont arrive to choose in which area to live 😄
notre pays est en train de sombrer mais bon... on devient une poubelle africaine... paris est devenue une honte (les autres grandes villes aussi remarque)
@@beussta poubelle africaine??? tf?
Dude, I moved to France from Romania in January. It's a peaceful life here and castles everywhere. love it.
J'adore la Roumanie ❤❤
Mais il à aussi des châteaux en Roumanie pourtant.
Pour le côté paisible sa dépend de l'endroit, c'est pas du tout homogène, entre une métropole de 11 millions d'habitants et un village de 300 habitants.
@@gregutdmglaucos3757j'ai visité le château de Bran....magnifique ! Et les petits villages roumains sont adorables. J'ai adoré ce pays et ses habitants !
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Les châteaux Européen ne se ressemblent pas même les château du nord et du sud de la France ne sont pas pareil
@@lapinmalin8626 euh oui mais je n'ai pas parlé des châteaux, vous vous êtes trompé de personne ?
I'm British, but love visiting France. Such a beautiful and varied country. When driving through the country there are so many pretty villages and loads of gorgeous scenery to take in.
France is a rare country which have every type of landscape the world can create. From desert to snowy mountain.
we have deserts ?
@@a.t.o.mworkshop6409 not yet :D
a moins qu'il voulait parler de la Mer de Sable lol hahaha
@@a.t.o.mworkshop6409 sans doute dans la zone au nord de Marseille ça fait un peu désertique
@@crmcrm6046 Il parle certainement de la Dune du Pilat.
We don't have deserts yet, but we have desserts :D
Vive la France , best country of world ❤🇫🇷 .
Avec l'Italie...
@@yannickperdreaux2295nn
Merci je suis français sa me fait plaisir que la France te plaît 👍😊
merci beaucoup
@@yannickperdreaux2295 non
As a french living abroad for business purpose, i felt so much nostalgia while watching your video. I can’t wait to come back home. It’s great to visit the world, especially as a young man, but damn… there is simply no place like home :’)
Qu'on est bien en France
As an american this guy is probably the most educated and hstorically and geographically provided i’ve ever seen. It’s completely mindblowing to hear an american telling such precise facts abt France and Europe in general. I might be wrong but as a french i often see on ytb and IG american ppl not knowing history basis abt their own country and of course the rest of the world
That's true.
thank you both of you. You are too kind 😊
You right
Yeah, I liked when he talked about Louis XIV just after seeing Versailles. And I was like "Nobody cares if you're wrong since you're enjoying it so much". Makes me want to travel more not only in my own country, but in the world in general.
Le listenbourg 😂😂👌
I live in Normandy near Mont Saint Michel and i have traveled all around the world but man i can not get enough of France 🇨🇵and Europe 🇪🇺 in genereal ❤
Je veux trop aller au Mont Saint Michel mais je suis à l’opposé total😢
@@mayfielcl et ben tu te paies un billet de train et t’arrête de geindre
@@lrf351 l'homme le plus aigri de France
sale normand va rendez le mont saint michel aux bretons😤🪦🧨
@@lrf351 félicitations, tu viens d'être diagnostiqué "Français".
Les symptômes s'illustrent par des gémissement (le patient râle 23h/24h) et j'en passe
Chambord at 13:28 was built by Francis I. He employed Leonardo da Vinci as an architect, and a lot of the castle was designed by da Vinci, including the famous double spiral staircase. The castle is huge. It has over 400 rooms.
The caves with the prehistoric paintings are around Lascaux.
You’re referring the Renaissance architecture
not Francis but François 1er .
@@gillesroy2706 François in french, Francis in english
@@gillesroy2706 J'écrivais en anglais, pas en français. En anglais ce roi-là s'appelle "Francis I". Les Français ne disent pas "Henry VIII" quand ils parlent français, sinon "Henri VIII". Et en français on ne dit pas "Je vais à London" sinon "je vais à Londres". À chacun sa langue, mon cher.😜
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Of course.
As a French, thank for the sympathy you have all along. If you come visite Mnt Saint Michel, you Need to visit also "St Malo", the very close Fortified seaside city who was known as "the capital of corsars". The bay is full of small forts and some are not open to public cause of the old WW2 mines still on the spot. The place should have been in this Top 25 at my opinion.
Others have mentioned this and I agree: [mainland] France is a very diverse country, especially considering it's size. And it's not only the landscapes. Architecturally too, as in its regional architecture. There are towns in Brittany (country's northwest) that look nothing like towns in Alsace (the northeast), which look nothing like towns in Provence and the French Riviera (the southeast), which look nothing like the Basque Country (the southwestern corner), which look nothing like the towns in Ile de Re and around La Rochelle (the west), which look nothing like towns in Savoy or the French Alps area (the east), which look nothing like the towns in French Flanders and Artois (the north). And very roughly speaking, the northern half or third of the country has distinctively high-pitched roofs covered either in slate, pantiles or clay flat tiles like you find throughout northern Europe and the southern half or so of the country has distinctively low-pitched roofs covered in terra cotta barrel tiles like you can find throughout southern Europe.
I'am French and I have personally visited many regions, thanks to my parents.
And I think our heritage is exceptional.
Paris being the most insignificant part ;)
Thanks for my country.
PS/ Sorry for my bad language
Je pense quand même que tout les français en commentaires sont la pour voir si les américains parle bien de leurs pays( de la part d’un belge❤)
Mdrrrr "Paris being the most insignificant" non mais je rêve le culot 😂😭😭
@@matthisdupre3487 too much arabic "dz" people
@@matthisdupre3487 non il a raison, Paris n'a rien à voir avec la France profonde, les ricards de marseille, le bon vivant du pays basque, le jambon de pays, les magnifiques paysage de la bretagne, l'air frais des Alpes.
Paris n'a rien à voir avec ça, et si un étranger visite Paris, il n'aura jamais une bonne image de la France, d'ailleurs il n'aura pas la vraie image de la France !
Paris est une bulle qui vie complètement en dehors de son pays ! Les citadins parisiens ne se rendent pas compte des différences qui peut y avoir entre la province et la capitale
@@BrinK-s certes les parisiens sont différents mais Paris reste un joyau architectural et historique qui mérite totalement d'être visité malgré les dégradations de ces derniers temps
I have visited many countries in the world. France is the most beautiful country in the world. it comes from its position on the planet. between the mediterranean and the atlantic and the mountains bordering its borders there are micro-climates on a restricted surface which mean that in a few kilometers everything changes. the landscapes, the vegetation, the architectural style, the food....etc...there is nothing else comparable in the world...🤔🤔🤔
Well, but now its ruined by the poor decisions of the governement and illegal immigration. Safe to say its nice to visit but not to live in.
I totally agree with you
Le seul problème de la france c'est les français et c'est dommage
@@robindbr aussi
@@robindbr lol
France is one of the nice country . Mountains, rivers, oceans, History, villages, all is nice.💜🧡💜
☀️☀️☀️Thanks so much for your kind words about France . ☀️
@@360.Outdoors.Videos
I am 💙🤍❤
Fun fact about Lake Annecy : Only 2 guys are allowed to fish in it, they are directly appointed by the government to do so, so they don't overdo it, hence the natural balance of the lake is preserved and that's one of the reasons the Lake is so clean and pure. 'Cause the food-chain is pretty much untouched ^^
Thats a straight lie
The cave you’re looking for is the cave of Lascaux, located in the south west of France where one of the oldest prehistoric wall drawings.
And you’re totally right France is the biggest country in Europe and there’s so much to see. Every region has its own landscape and beautiful locations to visit.
You can't visit it anymore
@@lpod yes, but they made a similar cavern and reproduce the exact painting so people can still have an idea how good it was
Yes ! Lascaux en Dordogne, Périgord.
"the biggest country in Europe"
Russia and Ukraine : *Am I a joke to you ?*
@@earendiIeur we said in EUROPE
As he said, he only scratched the surface, he didn't mention any places in the south west region of France.
They're also so much beautiful things in that region, the Pilat Dune for example, the tallest sand dune in Europe at about a 100m tall.
And I'm totally not saying that because I'm from Bordeaux :D
Imagine me from Guadeloupe 😆 Bordeaux is amazing !
He didn't really talk about the occitanie and aquitaine région, probably because he didn't visit them, but if he did, the video would have been 15 minutes longer 😂
La cité médiévale de Larressingle ,l’abbaye de Flaran et la villa romaine de Seviac dans le Gers .
Didn't went to the Rhone valley or Auvergne neither. Limited time I guess, they went to very famous touristic spots.
He sort of followed the borders skipping some areas. There's plenty to see everywhere. The entire "middle" of the country was basically skipped.
I'm from northern France, when you talk about the things that were destroyed during WWI I thought about the "Chateau de Coucy". It hosted the tallest dungeon of Europe and was destroyed by the germans when they retreated from the region because it was a formidable observation point.
The dungeon itself and the four main towers were destroyed. By chance, we have some photos and paintings from before WWI.
9:29 - i'm from Reims... so the cathedral notre dame de Reims was bombe, and rebuilt as it was, as a souvenir a canon ball has been used on the fronton
13:33 - no Versaille is very close from Paris, les chateaux de la loire are quite older, Chambor is mostly François 1er favorit castle (court moved a lot back then)
25:38 - Lascaut in the south ouest
29:10 - about the sheep, the grass they eat in salty making the meat already salty ^^ so when you're going try to have du présalé ^^
I am French and I loved seeing you react to our beautiful landscapes
I didn’t think much of France before I visited, and didn’t think much of francophiles at all 😄. But oh my, what a beautiful beautiful country, the history, the diverse landscapes… just, everything. Vive la 🇫🇷indeed.
Vive la France and let's make the French Revolution Part II
Everybody has two countries : his own and France.
Thank you my friend. Merci mon ami. Come back again.😀😍
You didn’t think much of people who like France ? What sense does that even make ?
I hope you had a good stay ! We have a very bad reputation internationally, so I'm always anxious about people hating us and our culture
I live in Corsica, I'm so proud of my little island, my culture and origins🤍🖤
I'm glad to be born in France, my country has such a diversity of landscape, there are so many things to see and places to visite, I've seen most of the places seen in this video and it's true they are fantastics but trust me there are sooooo many more...can't name them all!
Oh yeah, The prehistoric cave you ask about is "Lascaux" and near it there is a very beautiful place called "vallon pont d'arc" you have to see 😉
Lascaux est près de Montignac en Dordogne et Valon Pont d’Arc en Ardèche soit 390 km de distance c’est quand même assez éloigné 😉
There is so much more places to go. I recommand Rocamadour, Saint Cirq Lapopie, The dordogne Valley with its castles, La Rochelle, Toulouse and Bordeaux, the Pillat dune and Arcachon, Reims and its cathedral also Albi catherdral is quite original, of course the Lacaux caves, or gouffre de Padirac, the Luberon is also wonderfull with its small villages, les Alpilles and Saint Remy de Provence where you can see most of Van Gogh painting places...
Castle of Pierrefonds is amazing 😉
All of those are our secret places, don't drag too many tourists there :)
Yes, you get to visit all or almost all of the megalithic sites in Britannia (Bretagne in french). You can be alone in a forest surrounded by huge centuries old trees growing around amazing cromlech and menhirs and dolmens. This is amazing and quite magical. You can find them almost everywhere. some menhir are almost 10meters high. And lots of beautiful medieval cities, like Locronan, Rochefort-en-Terre and so on. Britannia is a really great place.
The cave you're talking about is the Grotte de Lascaux, in Dordogne. That's in the "mid/south"-west part of France.
On est là ! BZH
Brittany in english
Bretagne = Brittany
Britannia = Ancient Roman name for actual United Kingdom
Le ”moyen’ sud ouest ? La Dordogne est en nouvelle Aquitaine qui est géographiquement dans le Sud Ouest.
@@lilibelle9074 Mais en soit il a raison, pour quelqu'un qui ne vient pas de France et qui regarde la carte, la Dordogne ne semble pas tellement au Sud, c'est juste pour se situer (d'ailleurs en temps qu'habitante des Hautes-Pyrénées la Dordogne pour moi c'est le clairement pas le Sud 🙄)
Quel plaisir de trouver une chaine américaine qui s'intéresse à la culture française ;)
I so love Annecy/Chambéry (Haute Savoie), the lakes are insanely hot from mid june to mid september, and the mountains around with the green
I used to go to Carcassonne quite a lot in the 90s with my family and there were a lot of shops which sold mediaeval weapons and armour and things like that it’s a great city if you’re into history specifically mediaeval history.
and there is a lot of medieval castles around due to religion wars (croisade des albigeois).
PS; The caves with palaeolithic art that you mentioned are probably those of Lascaux near Montignac in the Dordogne
Or grotte Chauvet in Ardèche ;)
Our country is so beautiful we come to youtube looking for foreigners reaction to it
Awesome Video
Great video !
The real secret to enjoy France is to travel in the countryside, far away from Paris (great, but too expensive, and too crowded), and explore every corner and remote place...
As a French man, I had the luck to visit many places of every region of my country. I think my whole life will not be enough to explore everything, but my advice for you would be :
- take a map of France, then draw some kind of a huge U on it :
- the top of the left "arm" of the U should be in Etretat city
- the bottom of the U should be in Chambord castle
- the top of the right "arm" of the U should be in Nancy
Then, everything located west, south or east from this huge U is just amazing (landscapes, culture, architecture, restaurants, ...). It depends the kind of place you like (ocean, mediterranee sea, old mountains, high mountains, museums, castles, etc...)
The only drawback is that you have to rent a car, and have a lot of time.
PS : My personal hidden gem in France is the Cantal aera (very old huge volcano, a great place for hiking among Salers cows and flowers with incredible landscapes. Just enter "Salers" or "Cantal" or "Puy Mary" in Google image, you will see what I mean). But Finistere coast is not far away in my heart, and of course Provence area, Périgord area, etc etc...
- The Napoleon tomb is at "Les Invalides" in Paris. A former military hospital that has a Panthéon (Paris) vibe or Capitol with its massive and round roof.
- He mentionned Versailles right before you just started to talk about it lol. Versailles (château de Versailles) is located in the city of Versailles next to Paris. Honestly the gardens doesn't look that cool (imo, from what I've seen in vlogs) but in the castle itself there is a lot of history and since you are a Napoleon fan, you would like to see the room full of Napoleon generals/Marshals portraits :)
It was indeed built under Louis XIV (14), the Sun King and is probably the biggest in the world.
- Indeed, we are lucky to have so many landscapes, cultures and History in such a limited place. France is a bit smaller than Texas.
And again you didn't see anything yet. He didn't talk about the South-West region (except for the Pyrennees) nor the non-european regions of France. And there are a lot of WW1 historical places in the North-East.
Le Château de Versailles is located outside of Paris. South of East Ile-de-France
Our French King Louis XIV. The most successful one. Our French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (resting in peace aux Invalide)
It wasn't "built" by Louis XIV. It was a royal hunting outpost for a long time before him, and converted to a royal residence by Louis XIII. Louis XIV converted it to a palace, and a lot of it was built after his death under Louis XV, and a bit under Louis XVI.
Invalides is not a former military hospital .it's a military hospital even today .
I live near Mont Saint Michel and had the privilege to spend a day with my friends on a pilgrimage with the monks 23 years ago. I visited the crypt and the monks' area. Since my childhood I love this place.
if you are a lover of castles, I recommend the Cathar castles. not very well known to the general public but breathtaking for their beauty and their history
Une belle vidéo, on a nous même tendance en ce moment à oublier que la France est un très beau pays, happy new year les gars.
Avant Macron il y faisait bon vivre
Franchement, en tant que marocain, je n'arrive pas à comprendre l'afflux massif de touristes européens au Maroc sachant que la France est le plus beau pays en richesse géographique et historique.
En plus vous faites monter les prix à Marrakech.....
@@ismychrif6097Haha 😂 Mais le Maroc a l'air d'être un pays magnifique aussi, j'aimerais visiter !
8:04
The glacier flows downwards like water, except really, really slowly as new snow and ice forms at the top and melts at the bottom.
But you can see that it doesn't reach as far down as it used to, because it's melting faster then it grows now.
Basically any exposed rock there shows you where the glacier used to be in the last few generations.
As vegetation would have reclaimed anything really old.
There are a lot of châteaux and fortresses in southern France but the architectural style is quite different from what people imagine if their reference of an European castle is Game of thrones decorum.
But southern France châteaux are usually more well preserved because of the dryer weather and their strategic place in the Pyrenean mountains.
I highly recommend you to check some places like Aigues-Mortes, Nîmes,, Villefranche-de-Conflans or Fort de Bellegarde… which are fortified cities where real people still live today in a daily basis.
In Villefranche, you can even visit the fortified battlements like a ring around the town…
The prehistoric caves like Pech-Merle or Lacaux are usually scattered in centric or southern France too (in Dordogne, Lot or Aveyron regions). And yes, Mediterranean France have cactus and palm trees (more in southern east coast in Côte d’Azur like Menton, Cannes, Saint Tropez, Nice or Antibes) because the climate is close to overseas Mediterranean countries or even California but you can found palm trees in almost every beaches in the south around Perpignan…
The palace of Versailles is situated at 30 km outside of Paris (western suburban area) and used to be a little hunting pavilion under Louis the 13th reign but was later significantly enlarged and redone under his son reign (Louis the 14th).
le plus joli c'est le Périgord, ah ma dordogne que j'aime 🙂
What is Cote D'azur , Nissa, Mentan etc... Its Italian, from the Var river , once you passed that, Its , as Corsica, part of the itallic world.
Sorry to say , but France stoled it and did a cultural genocide for about 150 years.
Thats why its different.
Je suis du Lot a 15min de la dordone mm pas et j’ai visité pas mal de grotte moins connu que Lascaux mais tout aussi incroyable. On a visité le gouffe de Padirac récemment c’était incroyable et il y a des balades a faire en forêt ou le long du lot qui permettent de découvrir des paysage magnifique et c’est tellement peu connu ça rajoute une part de secrt aux lieux déjà magnifique
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Oui il reste encore beaucoup de trésors cachés ou mal connus dans cette belle région et heureusement… ca les préserve des problèmes qu’a connu Lascaux avec trop de visites et les infections microbiennes qui en ont découlé.
J’ai donné les références de Lascaux et Pech-Merle parce qu’elles sont les plus connues et sont grandement référencées sur UA-cam pour qu’il puisse aller checker des vidéos si ça l’intéresse…
Il y a aussi cette grotte récemment découverte à Marseille qui est immergée et dont on a beaucoup parlé cette année.
J’espère qu’ils réussiront à l’analyser assez profondément pour créer une copie visible comme pour Lascaux 2. J’adore l’art rupestre.
@@Nissardpertugiu
Stop to be hateful about something which happened centuries ago and nobody would have any power upon in the 21rd century.
Their history is complex and was part of Roma and Greek territories before Italy, so they have been stolen by Italian too prior to be part of the county of Provence and so France too by marriages and alliances.
And Corsica island has been sold to France by the republic of Genoa when they decided to become independent, not stolen.
When it’s comes to who has built the castles and fortresses in southern France, I was mainly making reference to the numerous Vauban (french architect under Louis the 14th reign) creations around PYRENEAN region, not the Alps. And as far as I know they didn’t even existed when « french riviera » was already part of the country. Plus I was only making notice of the specific climate and their almost inaccessible position (usually very high in the mountains geographical POV) as the main reason for their good preservation. Politics has nothing to do with that.
For what it’s worth, I wasn’t even evoking any castle in côte d’Azur besides the fortified city of Aigues-Mortes. I was just evoking the palm trees and cactus there…
As a french man myself I'm so happy how eager and passionate you were while watching the video.
Thank you so much and I hope you'll manage to visit Le Mont Saint-Michel someday
I remember going to the Mont Saint Michel during covid time... it was pure magic to be there with just a few tourists !
Probably one of the most impressive thing Ive seen in my entire life (and Im an old dude)
I was going to mention that unless you want to be crowded, it's best not to go there in summer, especially on weekends. However, starting in September, during the week, it's a great experience. I've been a number of times now, but have yet to get to see the tide come in!
I can give some information about the Loire valley.
12:57 and 13:06 : No, this isn't Versailles. It's Chambord (château de Chambord) which is one, if not the biggest castle of France. It's really HUGE (over 400 rooms) and it's definetly worth a journey (even though I would advise you to visit other castels nearby). You can see Versailles at 12:52.
13:10 : Château d'Amboise, home to François 1er who also built Chambord. Leonardo da Vinci used to live in Amboise and is buried there.
13:12 : Château de Montlouis-sur-Loire. Not much to say about this one but the garden is really nice and you have some kind of art exhibition there during summer.
13:15 : Amboise again. This bridge was destroyed during WW2 to prevent nazis from crossing the Loire. Actually a lot of bridges on the Loire were destroyed during WW2 so it's not uncommon to encounter lonely pillars like this.
13:20 : Still not Versailles, this is Villandry which is a castle well known for its gardens .
13:55 : Chenonceau is also very famous, but it's built on the Cher river, not on the Loire. It's really close to Amboise though (15km) because the Cher flows into the Loire in Tours 30 or 40km after Chenonceaux.
Note than most of these castles are very close : Chambord to Blois = 15km, Blois to Montlouis = 15km, Montlouis to Amboise = 15km, Amboise to Villandry = 15km, Amboise to Chenonceaux = 15km. If you want to visit the Loire Valley I would advise you to spend a night in Blois to visit Chambord and Blois and another night or 2 in Amboise to visit Chenonceau, Amboise, Villandry. If you know/like Tintin (famous comics in France), you can also go to Cheverny which is close to Chambord and is the castle that inspired the castle in Tintin. Loire Valley is also famous for its wines so you might want to spend some time in a wine cellar.
Tu dois être de la région, ton commentaire est très complet ! 😉
@@Olivier-GM oui je suis de Touraine :)
And if you have the chance, go to the Clos Lucet, witch is a little castle in around the same region if I remember correctly, and is where Leonardo da Vinci spent most of his time in France. It is a very beautiful and tinny place but really worth it to travel to. And you can see a lot of his inventions on display in the gardens
@@titouanamory2101 Yes the Clos Lucé is literally 1km away from the Château d'Amboise. Still in Amboise, there is also Château Gaillard (quite unknown royal castle) making the city the only one in France to have 2 royal castles :)
Chambord looks big, but Versailles is the largest castle in France, and maybe Europe.
For the Mont Saint Michel, what’s very interesting in my opinion is that during the 100 years war against the British, France had most of its territories around the mont-Saint-michel completely occupied and yet the Mont still remained French, because it was just not worth it to invade it. You can only make a siege for a few hours at a time, you can’t use siege weapons because of the soft sand and the way to short time to deploy them…. Truly remarkable
The 100 years war took place between France and England,not Britain ,as Scotland was an independent kingdom and traditionally an ally to the French.
I live next to the Mont Saint Michel
It's so big that anywhere on the coast of Brittany we still see its shadow in the distance
Hi !
Thanks for your video.
I wish you a Happy New Year from La Rochelle in France (it's where I live and it's really pretty). Bye !
The valleys at this altitude are usually carved by glaciers (but there could have been warm periods where liquid water also contributed to it). Glaciers do ‘flow’ just very slowly. In warming periods (as one could describe the last century), streams of melting water do flow through glaciers and can thus contribute to the erosion of the rock but most of what you see has been carved out by the glacier itself.
Take a peek at Slovenia a true gem that still hide from many people, the cave is Lascaux the original is close to the public
Or grotte Chauvet that is 10.000 years older
@@remnji4303 18000 *
Great video. I loved it. I always like the videos you decide to react on. Thanks
You should go to Perigord in France, it's called the land of thousand castles, plus there are cities like Sarlat and Collonges la rouge that are breathtaking ands the famous grottes de lascaux where caveman drawings have been discovered (and yes you van visit a full size replica of the cave).
If you like castles, you should checkout Guedelon, it's an ongoing project which aims at building a castle using the most authentic technics possible, it's even better to while it's not finished.
Me and the missus camped at Lake Annecy this summer, 7.5 hour drive from Dieppe, easy in one go. Campsite had direct access to the lake and it was amazing, warm water, perfect when it was close to 40 degrees. The drive to Chamonix is also fun, we went there to escape the heat for a day but it was 40 degrees there as well!
We always take our bikes to France, Annecy is good in that respect as there is a bike path that runs all the way round the lake and you can stop along the way to visit places like Chateau Menthon and the waterfall near Angon on the eastern side.
The video starting by Etretat, me crying because for the first time in my life I had to work this winter and couldn't join my family in Etretat... I love this place
Something incredible not to miss at the mont saint michel are the quick sands! You can do a barefoot guided hike all the way to the castle and the guide will teach you how to activate the quick sands and how to get out of them (it's completely safe as long as you are with a professional haha) super fun experience!
You should visit Burgundy and its wine roads, as well as the Hospices of Beaune and Dijon if you like architecture, it's beautiful !!
The cave you're speaking about at 25:30 is called "Grotte de Lascaux". Drawings in this cave were made between 34000 and 14000 BC. Megaliths in Britanny are dated to the Vᵉ millennium BC.
Pyrénées are wonderful moutains, not overcrowded and so beautiful.
Hi, you want castles, and medieval castles. Try the Périgord noir and castles like Beynac et Cazenac, Castelnaud, Domme and villages like Sarlat, Rocamadour. This region is paradise.
The chateau you paused to say "it's Versailles" is actually the chateau Villandry and is located near Tours (3h drive from Paris) ! I live there, it's so cool 🥰
Salut !! Oui pour un petit pays la France est vraiment très riche dans ça diversité géographique et architectural . Pour ma part j'habite dans la Région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée avec une pléthore de lieu à voir . Quelques exemple : le Gouffre de Padirac , le Sanctuaires Notre-Dame de Lourdes , l'Église Notre-Dame de Vals , les Arènes de Nîmes , le Château Comtal , le Château de Peyrepertuse , le Château de Quéribus , le Château de Foix , le Château de Montségur , le Pont Valentré , la Basilique des Saints Nazaire et Celse , la Grotte de Niaux , le Lac du Salagou , le Château de Puilaurens , la Forteresse de Salses , la grotte Aven Armand , la Grotte du Mas-d'Azil , la Rivière souterraine de Labouiche , les terres rouges de peyrolles , la Cathédrale Saint-Nazaire de Béziers , le Bourg Médiéval de Saint-Cirq Lapopie , la Cathédrale Sainte Marie de Auch ( la grande soeur de Notre Dame de Paris ) , le Palais des archevêché de Narbonne ainsi que la Cathédrale Saint-Just et Saint-Pasteur ( la plus grande demi cathédrale d’Europe d’où partez les bateaux des croisades en 1095 ) .
et on en oublie hahahha😂
it's a little sad he doesn't mention la Dordogne, it's an incredible region, with castles, painted caves, beautiful places if you like history and nature ! But there are so many places everywhere in France it's difficult to put them all in one video
Yes, La Dordogne, le Lot, la Garonne... all about the southwest. Nothink about la Catalogne or about North- east with l' Alsace for exemple
Je suis d accord avec toi une belle région, chargée d histoire, rivières Châteaux grottes, nature
@@lucilemadeinfrance2845 rah ouais, les château, la première maison blanche, on as une histoire préhistorique et moyen ageuse en même pas 100 mètre.. Puis la cuisine, mais ce n'est pas le thème
@@lucilemadeinfrance2845 il a mentionné l'Alsace avec Colmar et la route des vins d'Alsace.
LE LOT !!! j'ai découvert Cahors et sa région il y a 3 ans, c'était l'une des rares régions que je n'avais pas encore visité… et depuis je veux y vivre (si seulement ma femme et moi pouvions télétravailler à 100%). Depuis 6 ans je visite la France avec mon van et à chaque fois je rédécouvre une région fantastique mais la Dordogne et le Lot reste dans mon top (quoi que le Vercors se défend vachement bien aussi)
There are a lot of places in that video that I didnt know existed even tho I'm french, so thank you for this beautiful video of this beautiful country, hope you guys will come visit soon !
These are pretty popular destinations though :)
Hey there! I love your reactions! I am french and I work as a tour guide so here are a few answers to the questions you had 😉
- no, that beautiful castle in the Loire Valley was not Versailles, the king who built that one was François Ier but you have a shot of Versailles at 12:53 I give tours there, a truly fantastic place to visit.
- You are so right about W2 damage: we lost fantastic castles, and city centers ! Have a look at old pictures of Le Have or Pont L'évêque (the village which gave its name to the cheese ) or any large city in Normandy , it was even more beautiful before the war.
- Yes you can visit the place where Napoléon is burried it is called les Invalides and it's got a fantastic golden dome!
-You will looove Mont St Michel, just don't go in summer, it is sooo busy there! I recommend sleeping there so you can be alone at night, you'll feel like the pace belongs to you. Just fantastic!
As I understand it, the higher and sharper the mountain, the younger it is. The Highlands of Scotland were once as high as the Himalayas (many hundreds of thousands of years ago.)
V shaped valleys are usually river carved. U shaped are glacial carved, or more precisely, the rocks that are dragged along under the glacier.
To answer your question about the temperature in the south (I am from Marseille), we have a Mediterranean weather which means we have more sunny days per year than the rest of the country and winter is generaly less cold. However we have the Mistral, a powerful wind coming from the north that is really painful when it blows in winter.
Même en juillet, un coup de mistral et l’eau tombe à 18°C
Damn I'm only into 4 min and I know this is gonna be a good video : the knowledge of some basics in geography changes everything when you feel or try to explain how you felt about a place. There's not only visual apreciation, but also knowing more than "how it looked" when you *understand* geographic situation.
Thanks for the interest you make for our country! I loved so much France and particularly the Vallée de la Loire because i live in Nantes near the Loire. Have beautiful monuments is a chance, but we need to keep our monuments in a good form too! Thanks from France !
Its sad that a lot of things is not shown in this video like the incredible massif central
A middle height Mountain chain where there is a lot of volcanoes
The most famous are :
la chaîne des puys
Massif du sancy
Massif du cantal
And à lot of ski area
It's a top 25 not a top 100 can't fit them all
@@MaxLeCnkerant i know but this is just one of the most famous location in my country
Mont St Michel is indeed very impressive. A yet bigger version of the Cornish equivalent on this side of The Channel, also called St Michael's Mount".
Did you call me ?
Michel in French
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Michael in English
The one in Cornwall, England does not have a bridge. There is a road called 'a causeway' that can only be used at low tide.
@@Iazzaboyce Yep, I've been there.
7:49 It's the glacier which advances slowly and also its melting as well as the snow ^^
18:41 Yes almost it is ! More precisely it was the "Citadelle" built at the beginning of the 17th century today it's a museum.
I like to see your reaction to the best place of my country ! so proud
Alsace my home region, lots of good wine and Strasbourg the capital of christmas, more to the south theres Mulhouse my home town, and there is the Automobile Museum the history of cars of Europe and France
There are so many places missing in this video!
Personally, I really recommend visiting Toulouse, Bordeaux, the Dune du Pyla and Arcachon, the Atlantic coast, the Basque Country! And I forget...
Tu oublies la Dordogne ses châteaux, ses grottes et villages classés "plus beaux villages de France "😉😇
@@Strannnge oui je suis en Dordogne et j’aime aussi beaucoup le Lot. La Corrèze a aussi quelques belles pepites.
Thank you for your sympathy for my country. I do really hope you met welcoming french people, because although we have the great chance to live in this wonderful country, we sadly are not recognized for our sense of welcoming people. I did visit Canada and USA west Coast, and I met wonderful people and amazing landscape and things.
Thank you again for loving France like this. I hope you will come back and feel as good as possible.
One cool thing to do during low tide is to *walk* from Bec d'Andaine beach passing by Tombelaine and finally reaching Mont Saint Michel and then back the same way (make sure to book a local guide for your safety, they often show tourists how to get out of quicksands, very fun to try 😄). You can even cross during the late evening low tide.
Hey ! I know that I live in a beautiful country, but seeing France through your eyes is absolutely EPIC !
Thank you so much for the trip.
And it's true, environment (nature) changes very often (every 30 miles perhaps).
I really hope you'll visit le Mont St Michel. I've just seen it once with my eyes but unfortunately didn't go in (it's on my to do list). Perhaps I'll see you there !
From Camargue - not in the video wtf ! - with kisses ;)
Do you know "Aigues-Mortes" ? Perhaps you'll like it. It means Dead Water and it's our local medieval city.
And we have ruins from the Roman Empire all around. Well, the "Pont du Gard" (2000 years) is not a ruin.
PS : there's a castle in my little village :) not a war one but we have a pretty high dungeon. It's a bit broken now and forbidden access but when I was a kid I used to go on the top of it, it was magical.
In France, if you want to see castles, you have to go in the south, and mostly in the south-west. The department of Dordogne is the best place for medieval castles :)
live in the Dordogne, this part of France is also called the land of a thousand castles. All the rest of the Dordogne is magnificent and I'm not talking about the pleasures of the table.
I've been to the Mont Saint-Michel around 5 times now, and it really gets better every time! Definitely worth a visit I promise you will not regret it
As a frenchman, I beg you to see the pope's castle of Avignon !
And there are a lot of places that haven't been mentionned. It was a lot about Normandy, french Riviera and french coats in general. But there are even nicer place to visit. Just check Rocamadour or Sarlat-la-Caneda for instance. Europe in general is amazing to visit :)
On a un super pays en terme de géographie :) j'ai beau y vivre, ce genre de vidéo me fait vraiment me rendre compte de toutes les variétés de paysages
Oui absolument. Dommage qu il y est de petits problèmes non résolus depuis 1981... J ai connu une France qui tenait debout riche vraiment riche pas de dette des usines des exportations... J espère que l ont remontera la pente !
@@christianterraes8334 Oui....Tellement de potentiel chez nous et tellement de déceptions depuis 50 ans....La faute a un pouvoir politique pas à la hauteur des enjeux.
@@chrisledruide789 pourquoi ramener tout à la politique, y'a aucun rapport?? Apprécie la vie un peu plus au lieu de te la pourrir
@@bralsamuel6855 c'est justement la volonté qu'elle ne pourrisse pas qui nous pousse à la critique
You can see the place where Napoleon's tomb is, in the Invalides around 500m close to the Tour Eiffel
Im si proud of being French and especially from Normandy as I already went 5 times to the m’ont saint michel and u discover more and more food and views and history each time.🇫🇷🇫🇷
Vive la France ♥
Hey, I'm living in Eze and yes it's one of the most beautiful medieval town in france! He didn't mentioned Villefranche-sur-mer but it's one of the most beautiful town in the south of france, it's a super romantic place, go in the evening, eat in a restaurant and just walk on the port with your lover. You'll keep tis moment in your heart forever
I lived in Nice 3 years, and Villefranche is definitely one of my favorite place in France
There's also a cute one near Lyon, called Peyrouges
Such a great video
As a french woman I'm still amazed at how France is diverse, this gives me the urge to travel everywhere in the country. Also you were referring to the Grotte de Chauvet which closed and had a reproduction made called Grotte de Chauvet 2 which you can visit, it is situated in Ardèche if you want to check it out ^^
Belgian here Mont Saint Michel is for sure one of my favorite places I have been ... it's so beautiful
First, is it Connor or Conor? I've see both written here....please don't curtail your pausing, you're not stopping in the middle of a guitar solo! You are my favourite reactor because you react! And I love your mind flitting about, it's very entertaining and often funny.
French here,
Glad you enjoy our country. People outside of Paris are welcoming too :).
You talk about grosse de lascaux, in Perigord. I really enjoy this place, old history, ruin, great food.
I'm from britanny, we have the best city to live Rennes (great food, lot of fun and bar).
Hope to see you back.
Cheers
You can visit Napoleon's tomb, it is in Paris, located inside the Invalides buillding ;) there's also a Museum dedicated to the French Army.
The mont saint michel is surely one of the most beautiful places in France but you will probably be dissapointed due to the amount of tourists there is when you go there.
The cave you are talking about is the "grotte de lascaux and the grotte chauvet" (grotte=cave)
Yes, there is two of these beautiful caves
Thanks for sharing about our beautiful country 🇨🇵
There many caves with Palaeolithic art painting you can visit and there also very good reconstitution. I personnaly recomand the Niaux Cave in the Pyrenées moutains, near from Toulouse. You can visit le château de Foix in the same occasion. But you have many caves in the Dordogne region, who is also rich in medieval castles. But for the castles, there is a lot everywhere :)
That's a shame he didn't mentioned Dijon (the city where I live) with typical Burgundy roofs tiles etc... But that is clear that you can find different cultures every 30 or 60 miles. (Food, architecture and specific endemic languages or accents...) 😉
Moutarde de dijon, Putain on vous dois ca!
Plus for castle you have vault vicomte and Fontainebleau
Given the short duration of this video, it is impossible to cover France entirely. I could also mention the Bay of Arcachon, the paradise of my youth.
@@francinesicard464 Bien dit ! Vive la baie d'Arcachon. Paradis de mes vacances...🤩
Dijon c'est la définition de la diagonale du vide
Il y a plein d’autres endroits à visiter. Les grottes de Lascaux avec ses peintures préhistoriques, la Dune du Pyla, l’île d’Oléron et ses parcs à huîtres, les villes comme La Rochelle ou encore Arcachon, Bordeaux et toutes ses vignes autour, le pont du Gard, l’Ile-de-France Ré... 😊
Oui la liste est très longue...plus de 40 000 châteaux il faut le savoir cela souligne une très brillante civilisation.
Porquerolles aussi dans le sud mais il a parlé de Saint trop à la place alors que franchement à part les yatchs c'est pas incroyable
Thank you very much to appreciate the wonderful monuments and Landscapes of my country. A lot of your comments are so true. Indeed, in a such small area you have a little piece of the World. And yes French Alpes are absolutely gorgeous, Mont Blanc is maybe the most iconic Peak but there are many many other places to see, sometimes At the same level of beauty. There about 40 000 churches and castles in France so you can go anywhere you won't be disapointed.
I've been to the Aiguille du Midi, I've been on the little path that goes from the station to go and ski down the glaciar (la Mer de Glace). And that path, with ski boots, was the riskiest part of the day I felt ahah you really don't wanna slip here. They carved some sort of icy stairs and you had a rope to hang to, but still, I wasn't feel super great
I was born and live in Brittany and sometimes I forget how lucky I am to even live here, I've been to the Mt Saint Michel dozens of times, mostly with schools trip, and it's truly a fascinating place both for the history and architecture but also all the geological aspect of the bay.
One of my favorite place is Cancale where my grandparents lived, it's a costal city at the eastern edge of Britanny and at the beginning of the Mt Saint Michel bay. The city is very cool in itself but the greatest thing is that you can see the Mt Saint Michel way off in the distance and depending on the weather it can really be stunning to see such a place from so far away ACROSS THE SEA.
Le Mont Saint-Michel est en Normandie, construit par des Normands, pas des Bretons!
@@andrepelluet974 Quel est le rapport ? Ma mère est normande de toutes façons j'en ai rien à foutre de cette guéguerre ridicule, le Mt Saint Michel il est pas à l'autre bout de ma région moi, il est juste à côté :)
@@andrepelluet974 Heu non, la construction initiale a était faite par des bretons , puis est passé sous contrôle normand, en faite les deux régions sont lié par le mont saint michel , si je puis dire.
@@andrepelluet974 La Bretagne a déjà envahie la Normandie.
La Normandie n'a jamais envahi la Bretagne.
Les Bretons ont construit le Mt. Saint Michel.
Maintenant il est temps pour vous, de rendre à César ce qui est à César.
On vous laisse vos bunkers qui est la plus grosse attraction touristique de votre région alors que ce n'est même pas vous qui en êtes à l'origine XD
Les gars , calmez vous vous êtes en train de faire la guerre pour le mont saint Michel alors qu’on devrait juste être heureux de l’avoir en France . Si on commence à faire une guerre entre différentes régions , on est mal barrés .
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Hi! (Sory for my bad english language , I'm a french guy) For any people visite/travel in France, go and visit the other regions that also make up France. There is the champagne-ardennes region with its incredible champagne cellars, the Meuse and its sites which show all the difficulty of the wars to pass, the Ardeche, the magnificent Camargue, the regions of Nimes during the feria, the North, towards Lille in the south with Nice, Antibes. Dare to leave tourist sites, talk with us, the French (we don't bite XD), take advantage of your visit to go for a ride in nearby countries like Belgium or Luxembourg which are magnificent. Anyway, thank you for this nice video.
Hi ! as a French, Mont Saint Michel is a unique place but I recommend that you come visit it early in the morning because there are SO MANY PEOPLE during the day that you cannot really enjoy the beauty of the place + to visit the abbay (the interior) you should book a ticket on the internet because the places are sold out very quickly in the morning