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September 19, 2018 - Moustiers-Sainte-Marie

We drove today with our friend Debra from Cassis to Moustiers-Sainte-Marie.

We wandered around the town and also planned our hike for tomorrow.

Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, or simply Moustiers, is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

department in southeastern France, a part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region

and considered one of the "most beautiful villages of France".

It lies at the western entrance to the Gorges du Verdon.

ABOVE LEFT - Welcome to Moustiers!

ABOVE MIDDLE - Our hotel for the next five days. We are on the top floor

with the balcony and the two windows that are closed right now.

ABOVE RIGHT - Just below the hotel

ABOVE LEFT - The waterfalls on the side of our hotel, just below our window.

We worried about sleeping with all the noise!

ABOVE MIDDLE - Another section of the falls alongside our hotel.

The river runs right through the middle of town

ABOVE RIGHT - The restaurant of our hotel

ABOVE LEFT - Beautiful begonias at Le Lavoir, a laundry area and fountain

that served the village's inhabitants in the 19th century.

ABOVE MIDDLE - Church of Our Lady of the Assumption.

ABOVE RIGHT - View from our favorite cafe

ABOVE - The view from our hotel. We plan on hiking up to this chapel on our "rest day"