With your feet firmly planted on the ground and your head under the branches of a majestic silver fir, even if it is high time to warm up your calves, you must take a few moments to contemplate the lake of Vassivière on which the wind now draws its shape. high waves. The Puy de la Croix moor dominates the north-eastern tip of the 1,000 hectare body of water which constitutes the heart of the Millevaches plateau, straddling the Creuse, Corrèze and Haute-Vienne.
On this very ancient peat bog, at the end of September, the heathers have already flowered and only a few small purple flowers remain between thickets of juniper trees. In the holly groves, the red berries that herald autumn are already out. A stream sings, its rust-colored waters, loaded with iron released by the granite plateau, slide down to the lake. You would almost expect to see an elf emerge from this fairytale landscape.
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