Puy de Dome, roof top of Clermont Fd (18th Aug 06)

After seeing the spectacular view shown in the last entry, we continued to travel up the road towards Puy de Dome, but it turned out that you could not drive up to the top before 1800 Heure (6pm), but there was plenty more to see along the road, in the Auvergne. (This picture shows the road heading directly for Puy de Dome which is the hill in the centre.)
Later on after 6, we went right up to the top of the volcano, (€4 toll road), the road is very windy and steep, although you get an excellent view from every side, the road can be seen in this picture, as it winds up the hill.

Heres Clermont from the Visitors Centre, it looks tiny, you can probably see for around 80miles into the hills behind, I wanted to include the hillside in the picture as it gives a scale to the edge of the Puy De Dome, against the city down below, giving the contrast a little bit more of an edge to it.


This is the arrangement for the visitors centre, the flooring is made from volcanic rock from the Dome, here u can still get an idea of how high up the buildings are above the city behind.


Max zoom brought me Clermont Ferrand airport, shame the sun didnt shine in some way on it, to bring a spotlight effect to it.


This shows Clermont Ferrand without any interruption, with the huge expanse of sky above to contrast the differnet colours of the city.