Top 5 Caves around Viols-Le-Fort

WARNING: This is not the Grotte des Demoiselles (Cave of the Maidens)! I requested that its REAL name be changed to "Grotte - Abri de Lamalou 2" (Lamalou Cave - Shelter 2). Some nice points of interest along the way! The path is sometimes challenging, so caution is advised. I also encountered a few people rock climbing. The ladder in the old "Hermite" cave is stable, but be careful nonetheless. Once at the top, it's easy to slip (it's on a slope). The visit is short, but there are a few tricky sections to explore a little further. Naturally, this makes it all the more dangerous! Not recommended for people with vertigo or who are not comfortable with heights.

WARNING DANGEROUS PATH! Once you leave the GR path, it is not easy at all to follow any semblance of a path... The best thing is to follow my tracks, BUT given how well the GPS works at this point, it will be complicated. You have to go around the massive rock (roughly), and then pass between the two large rocks. The slope is steep, with some slippery passages. People who are not comfortable with heights, or a bit of climbing, do not venture there. Once at the top, between the two rocks, you will pass under a beautiful arch, then going down, and going back up on your left, you will come across a cave. For the other caves, you will have to climb a little more on the GR, and join a clearly visible fault, then cross the ledge! Access is also dangerous, full of voids. Then you can see another cave a little further, which will require a little impractical climbing.

It is especially the path that leads to this place that will amaze you! Be careful, I strongly advise people who are sensitive to vertigo, have difficulty moving, or have young children not to take the path that leads to this place (in either direction).

The cave was first discovered by speleologists in 1945 and to date over 4 km of passages have been explored. A 900 meter long path has been opened as a show cave and takes over an hour to walk through.

The Jumelles caves are located by leaving the GR74 for a few hundred meters. The path is quite narrow, with a few landslides when I passed, but is still quite easy to use. Access to the first cavity on the left is quite simple. The second is more difficult, you will have to climb a little! It is quite slippery, be careful! The cavities are short however, but it is always nice to go there.

Unmissable places in the St Guilhem le Désert area, and also a place of meditation in the Charlotte cave. The cave is a simple rock shelter. La Baume de l'Olivier also, no obvious and known continuation.

A remarkable site, the Baume de l'Olivier was inhabited until recently by Michel Dross known as "Frigoule" (1927-2009) who lived there as a hermit and left his mark on the place.

The Clamouse cave is located in Saint-Jean-de-Fos in the department of Hérault, at the foot of the Séranne (mountains of Saint-Guilhem). The cave opens a few hundred meters upstream from the Pont du Diable, near the medieval village of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, on the right bank of the Hérault gorges.