Pont du Gard is a perfectly preserved Roman aqueduct built in 19 B.C. Not only is the sight awe-inspiring and beautiful, the area surrounding it is a beautiful park filled with treed trails, with a shallow river for wading and swimming. The kids enjoyed throwing rocks into the shallow river and spotting tadpoles and fish in the pools of water. The walk up to the panoramic point to view the aqueduct is breathtaking. Maybe I'm biased because I am just so impressed by the engineering of the Romans. By dropping one inch for every 350 feet, it supplied nine million gallons of water per day to Nimes, one of ancient Europe's largest cities. The structure is made to hold without mortar (entirely held by gravity of the stone arches), and withstood floods and natural disasters for thousands of years. This is the second highest standing Roman structure (Roman colosseum is only 6 feet taller). We saw some people float down the river on kayaks. If you're brave, you can swim through the arches too.
Haribo Museum
The only reason this got 1 star rather than no star, is that the candy here is actually REALLY good. The museum itself was mildly interesting, if that. Maybe I'm not being fair, because the second floor was closed for renos when we were there, but there really wasn't much to see there. I thought we could taste more candies and see more being made. Out of all the machines they had, half of them were broken. The only one working was for packaging ready made candies, not for actually making them. The site was a disappointment, but the candy is really the freshest and yummiest candies I've ever had!
