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Translated as the Hotel of the Cirque and the Waterfall, it was the nearest structure to the base of the cirque and Gavarnie Falls. Luckily, we came back when the weather finally cleared and we could see the cirque and the grand waterfall from the neighboring town of Gavarnie! With this much fog at the bottom of the Grande Cascade du Gavarnie, we didn’t have a shot at seeing this waterfallĮven though both the falls and the cirque could be seen from afar in town, we thought it was well worth our while to do the roughly 2.5-hour round trip hike from town towards the nearby Hotel du Cirque et La Cascade. This was exactly what happened to us on our first visit. Given its dramatic location, our experience with the Grande Cascade du Gavarnie and its cirque was totally at the mercy of Mother Nature.īasically, if il fait mal (the weather is bad), you may not be able to see neither the cirque nor the waterfall. Viewing Conditions at the mercy of Mother Nature On our first attempt at visiting the Cascade du Gavarnie, we had trouble even getting any sense of what it was like because low clouds blocked any chance we had at seeing it at all In fact, the glacial source of the waterfalls of the cirque was said to be on the Spanish side of the border. Le Cirque de Gavarnie resided right at the border of Spain and France deep within the Hautes-Pyrénées (Upper Pyrenees) department of the Occitanie region (formerly Midi-Pyrénées region).
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The tallest of its two most visible tiers was said to plunge 281m, which also made it one of France’s highest by this measure (of highest vertical drop). La Grande Cascade du Gavarnie was said to be the tallest in the country at 422m in cumulative height.
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Tallest Waterfall in France? The full drop of the Grande Cascade du Gavarnie The result was what we believed had to be one of the most beautiful locales in Europe let alone all of France.Īfter all, the cirque featured snow-crusted mountains with steep walls sprinkled with several small cascades including la grande cascade itself. The waterfall sat in a glacial cirque, which I believe was a bowl or depression left behind by a glacier. So for this reason, I’ve seen this waterfall referred to as: Gavarnie Falls, the Gavarnie Waterfall, La Grande Cascade de Gavarnie, or even La Cascade du Gavarnie (where they include the definite article for “The Gavarnie”). The Grande Cascade du Gavarnie and the Cirque du Gavarnie This was notable because from what we could tell in our research prior and during our trip, waterfalls in France in general weren’t generally talked about outside of the local French literature. La Cascade de Gavarnie was certainly one of the more well-documented waterfalls in France.
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