Roman Sites and Historical Places Small-Group Day Trip from Avignon

Magnifique lieu chargé d’histoire. La visite avec l’audio guide est très bien faite et complète. Elle nous permet de bien découvrir le site et d’en apprendre beaucoup sur les habitudes romaines, la vie à cette époque et bien sûr, sur les gladiateurs. La visite est parfaitement adaptée pour les enfants également.

Highlights for us were seeing the Roman Antic theatre in Orange and La Maison Carre, an ancient Greek temple in Nimes and the Arc de Triompe in Orange. The Colisseum in Nimes was disappointing as it looked grander in photos I had seen previously. We also could not walk all the way around due to restoration work being done- half an hour would have been plenty for this. The visit to Uzes, a medieval village was interesting but most of time spent trying to find our way back to meeting point; was very windy as on top of mountain. On a trip the previous day we saw the Pont du Gard, the ancient Roman aqueduct and that is definitely worth a visit- we elected to not see it on this tour and so finished the tour a bit earlier. The Guide was a good driver but she did not give us much history or information about any of the places, things we were going to see. She could have been more informative we felt and all in all the tour we looked forward to the most was the most disappointing. All the sites are worth visiting but think if you rent a car you would do just as well.

The highlights: sites included, people in this group of 8, the place we chose for lunch, and the weather. It was soon apparent our driver/guide Christian and the group had very different expectations. He expected to drive, drop off with instructions, and return. The group expected a tour guide. He was knowledgeable and friendly; he wanted to please so he finally accepted our insistence that he guide us and stay with us. He had not done the necessary planning for this full day tour. He had poor sense of time and pace of this elderly group. Parking was a huge issue and he scraped his and another car in a space too small for the vehicle. Many disasters.