Hi All, Do you think that if we leaves Chartres by 10 am, heading for Sarlat, we will have time to stop at the Prehistory Welcome Center as well as Oradour-sur-Glane? We don't plan on visiting the museum at Oradour, just a somber stroll down the main st. Of course I am going to ask next if we could squeeze in Lascaux 11 as well?
Too crazy?
Posted by
Pensacola
9110 posts
Maybe, but probably not. Figure on a half hour to wiggle out of Chartres and find the N154 (follow the signs toward Orleans until you get yourself established). After you clear the city, it's about five hours straight to Les Eyzies. Make that five and a half hours so far. Oradour isn't that easy to find. If you do it perfectly, it's a half hour off the freeway. Call that excursion an hour and a half. You're up to seven hours. Up to an unknown number if you miss a turn and have to recombobulate. Toss in a gas/rest stop and a quick lunch and you're up to eight hours - - six pm - - exactly the time that the Welcome Center closes. An option might be to include Oradour on the northbound leg back to Paris. There's time then. Notionally, that would give you a bit more than an hour at the Welcome Center on the southbound leg. Lascaux II has got to be an either/or with the Welcome Center. It's a bit more in line than Les Eyzies if you're heading from Oradour/Limoges to Sarlat, but it closes at five, six, or seven depending on the time of year. The tour takes less than an hour.
Posted by
Columbia, MO, USA
249 posts
In June, we left Chenonceaux, stopped at Oradour-sur-Glane (including museum) walked the entire village, and drove to Beynac-et-Cazenac with gas stop and lunch stop along the way. According to Google Maps you'll have an hour more driving. If you started early, you could do it, but our day involved about 10 hours-I wouldn't do that much again. FYI, we thought the museum was worthwhile.