The Prehistory Museum under the cliffs in town has a combination of ancient and modern buildings with an interactive exhibition of paleontology incorporating archeological samples, art and detailed history of the Perigord area. After some enthralling hours there, we walked over the bridge and watched kayakers enjoying the river; I had hoped to do the same, but we ran out of time.
Later in the afternoon, since it was light until 9 pm, we chose a marked walk up the Vezere to find seven lookouts from medieval times. These 'towers' were actually natural clifftop points from where visiting or attacking craft could be seen for miles and the settlements along the river could be warned by messages from tower to tower. There was actually an 
ancient, cobbled and walled road through the forest to the few lookouts we had time to find and I imagined the necessary traffic from early days, laden carts, people travelling to markets and from village to village, another contrasting environment and a very evocative place to find near our lovely base at Ferme de Tayac.
ancient, cobbled and walled road through the forest to the few lookouts we had time to find and I imagined the necessary traffic from early days, laden carts, people travelling to markets and from village to village, another contrasting environment and a very evocative place to find near our lovely base at Ferme de Tayac.
Along the way I found 3 tiny white orchid plants of 2 different types, so I photgraphed them for my friend Anne near Melbourne who has been excited to find many species on their land at Grantville.
Chatting with our hosts at the b&b, Mike suggested a different restaurant, the Auberge de Musee, where we again enjoyed a delicious meal, a fitting conclusion to our experiences in Les Eyzies de Tayac.
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