 It's lasted longer than the pyramids. This right here. This is the pyramid of Brittany. Hi, I'm Lavi and this is Oli. Over the past four years we have been on some epic adventures around the world. Now, after converting an old van into our new home on wheels, we are ready to hit the road and explore the wonders of Europe. Click the subscribe button to follow our journey and let the adventure begin. Oli the driver. Good afternoon. Welcome to Odyssey. We are here in the town of Carnac in southwest Brittany. Oh, wait, hold on. Where are we southwest? Northwest France. Northwest France. Good afternoon. Welcome to Odyssey. So we have driven here to the town of Carnac. This is in northwestern France and we are here to see the famous Carnac Stones. Or in French, the element, the Carnac, which is probably really, really immaculately spoken. At up to 7,000 years old, the megalithic alignments here are one of the most important centres of European prehistory. So apparently there are nearly 3,000 of these standing stones around this area here and it's apparently the biggest gathering of this type of stone and after all this time, hopefully they're still standing and we can go now and visit them. Although this place is not as famous as Stonehenge over in the UK, with 3,000 stones here, I'm pretty sure this is going to be an amazing place to visit. Absolutely. So let's go. Let's get going. You know, I did read a little bit about this before we came here. I've been reading a book by Neil Oliver called History of Ancient Britain and he mentions this site in that book actually. Although it's a history of Ancient Britain, of course, the people of Britain are incredibly closely connected. I mean, this is Brittany after all. Yeah, the history here is 100% connected to the history of Britain. Okay, so first we're going to go into the Maison, the megalith. Here it means house of the megaliths but I imagine this is the information centre so we can learn a little bit more about these ancient structures. Covid procedure. Yeah, we need our vaccination proofs. Our ticket to travel. Yeah, success. We're in Asterix and Obelix, the ancient culture of France. Alright, merci. I didn't totally get what they were saying in the film. They couldn't give us headphones because of Covid and the subtitles were also in French so we just had to make the best with what we saw but we could see there that they moved the stones with a series of logs and ropes and they just rolled the stones along and then there was one bit where they were talking about how they raised up the stones and they did that with a sort of big sort of Y made out of sticks and a rope going over it and then they tied it to the stone and then loads of people pulled and the Y kind of went like this and the stone on the other side of it also went like this and they lifted them up like 3,000 times over. That's really impressive. So we're going to take the train now which takes us around all the different sites. Very exciting and it's very cheap as well actually. It's like seven euro per person. Just good for the budget travellers. No, I think you're just leaving. We'll have to get the next one it looks like. Oh, I think the next one is coming already. Ah, here's the next one. We've got our tickets. Carriage 3, row 3. Row 2, carriage 3, row 2. Here. Beautiful. That's nice. The Covid save. They're playing like some Celtic music it sounds like. So on this headphone, just the one side is working. This side here. On this headphone, as well just the one side is working. So I would just use both headphones now. Stereoscopic. Oh, we're starting. We are going on the train. We're going through the town of Carnac now. On the train, look at this. Okay, so they were just saying that this lake behind us is actually used to be a salt lake. So they used to use it to harvest salt. And you can see there are piles of salt in the middle of it. 550 standing stones here. And they also told us on the head said that the word men here is used for these and men here is in the old Briton for standing stones. They also said that when they discovered them 80% of them were actually fallen over and they've since put them back up back to their former glory. But that's the smaller of three alignment fields. The curler scan, that one. And now we're heading to the second one. They just told the story that the legend goes that the men here were created when the Romans were invading and as the Celts were retreating the Celts turned them into stones. And that's how they formed it. Okay, so that was the second field of alignment stones. It's called the Camarillo alignments. And that one has 1,100 stones. How do they mow the lawn, you ask? Well, they use sheep. The largest of all the fields of alignments this is called the Menic alignment. I didn't exactly catch how many men here there were but over a thousand. This centre is actually next to the largest field the Menic alignments. And there's a walkway that takes you around the field. So we're gonna hop off the train and go for a little walk. Merci. Up close and personal look at the stones. And there's one right here. There are a lot of people now at this time in a year and they're walking around everywhere they want. It's really likely for the stones just to... Very big area here. You can spend probably like three hours or something just to walk around and discover and see everything. Yeah, you could see when we were on the train that it's like field after field of alignments, of monuments. There's quite a lot to see here in Cana. Yeah, pretty crazy place. And I found out as well that the word karnak means a pile of stones. So that's a pretty apt name for this place, if you ask me. We saw there was a little creperie and so we got a cap. And also an ice cream. Oh my god, this massive crepe. This chocolate. It's so good. Delicious break. And we've been pretty much eating parmesan all day today. Croissants. And croissants, I don't know what it is but as soon as we came to France it was like oh let's just buy giant bags of croissants and parmesan. No, actually the first thing we did was getting a big baguette and probably like four different types of cheese. Oh my god. You know, when in France, hey, oh they know how to eat, hey. Okay, so in front of us, in the Camarillo alignments area is this structure which is called a dolmen. If you look down here it's actually a massive structure where they've laid huge stones over other stones and the whole thing would have been covered with earth originally and this is actually a mass grave site and there would have been a lot of bodies buried within this structure so it's a giant sort of tomb that's been made out of giant stones. It's incredible. They've made some really, really good construction to have lasted that long. It's lasted longer than the pyramids. This right here, this is the pyramid of Brittany. French history. Okay, so we're back in the van and we're driving to what I've been told is a huge monolith called the Giant Manio. This is supposed to be the largest of all the monoliths in the area. We're just going to drive to that now and just see how big this stone really is. You can just see standing stones like monoliths just on the edges of fields and stuff and used as benches. You can imagine how many of them have just fallen covered with earth, moved and still we have 3,000 of them left for us to see and there must have been so many more originally. Can you imagine trying to get this thing to stand up? Oh my god. Not really. We found a free camp which is about 20 minutes from here. We found it on iOverlander which was recommended. Exactly, so we haven't checked it out yet. We don't know, maybe it's like not suitable, but I think it will be. So we will drive there now and check it out. Hopefully we are somewhere on the beach and we can still have a nice swim. We will see you. It's really full, but we might just be able to come next to this tree. I think we can just for the night otherwise there's no space. This is where sometimes it helps to have a really small van the whole place. It's full, full, full, full. Look. There's a tiny space at the back just for a red tornado. The beach is just over here so we're going to check it out. This is how close we are to the beach. The van is just here and over these sand dunes is the ocean. We really liked Carnoc and we just really liked the coast. It's amazing. So we will catch you on the next one. Goodnight. If you enjoyed watching this video you would help us a lot by subscribing to the channel by clicking here. Thanks so much for watching guys we will see you next time.