デュルビュイの湖・トップ4

A beaver family has created a small pond along the river. We didn't see any beavers, but traces of their work are clearly visible in the surrounding area.

A beautiful chapel on a lovely estate. Currently undergoing extensive restoration. Unfortunately, it is not open to the public. Legend has it that the chapel was built with perfectly cut stones, without mortar or grout. The crypt is supposedly so rigidly constructed that, despite being below the waterline, it remains bone dry after all this time.

An exceptional natural setting. Easy access and parking.

Numerous dams built by beavers and a place where no human intervention has changed the course of nature... the beaver is king there.

The site, composed of an excavation with extremely eroded slopes, a deep pond and a flat area characterized by an abundance of heather, is in the process of being recolonized by vegetation adapted to this sandy soil, which is very poor in mineral salts. It is therefore home to psammophilous species (which carry out all or part of their life cycle in a sandy substrate): many burrowing insects but also the sand martin. Protected species include the wood turtle dove, the natterjack toad, the smooth snake and the grass snake. Management measures aim to restore the moorland areas, maintain a refuge area for psammophilous insects and restore a cliff that is favorable to the sand martin. The Larbois sandpit, a state-owned nature reserve, is of undeniable aesthetic interest, with its variegated, white, yellow, ochre sands, associated with a few purplish clayey levels. Having sedimented in the Tertiary era in a depression of the Carboniferous limestone, the sands come from the last sea that covered our region around 25 million years ago. They did not transform into sandstone, erosion having dispersed them after the sea retreated. This old sandpit, exploited between 1962 and 1975, is one of the points of interest on the geological trail. Labeling: Site of Great Biological Interest, State-owned nature reserve. Bus 342 Stop: Géromont-centre (2.5 km walk).

A pretty pond with a clear view of the valley. Ideal for a short break

beautiful pool

Nice walk on the Condroz