Luberon: Musée de la Lavande, Village des Bories, Gordes, Fontaine-de-Vaucluse (3/12/2019)

The Luberon is a pearl. Its landscapes are breathtaking. It's green and in the Autumn it has beautiful colors which make the visitor to fall in love with the Provence. Our first stop was the Museum of Lavender. The impressive museum's theme is the Lavender, one of the main agricultural attractions of the Luberon. In the summer the fields flourish purple. In the winter we only have the museum to tell stories about it. And the stories are great! The history, the technology, the business are all parts of the museum's exhibition.

Distillery machines:

The private field of the museum:

There are lots of information about the three types of lavender: fine, spike and hybrid.
Anyways. We ended up in the museum shop where we got some hand cream and headed out to a world of stone to discover....to the Village des Bories.
Most of the huts were built in the 17th century, while the most recent were constructed in the 19th century. A great example of the dry-stone building: locally found stones are assembled without mortar or binder using the corbelled vault technique.

It's nice, but good thing we don't have to live in these.

This type of construction appeared in France during the conquest of the new land in the 17th and 18th century. It cleared the land from stones and these were used as building materials. The huts served as shelters for shepherds, places for storing equipment and temporary homes for farmers working on the land far from their home village.
This place was abandoned in the 19th century and was rediscovered and restored in the 1960's.

Then we just meandered around the town.

From Gordes we drove to the east to find the spring Fontaine-de-Vaucluse. After some initial difficulties finding a parking slot we walked the path along the river which was almost over flooding. We were looking for the spring.
First it gives a very modest impression, a normal mountain river:

 Then as we got closer to the spring it became stronger:

And than BANG:

This is the actual spring:

Which after 20 meters of flow results in this:

Live presentation: