Pont du Gard written by Katie

The Pont du Gard is old, but still shines at night with brightly shining lights! It is 2,000 years old and has a nice flowing river under it. It supplied water for 500 years to a city called Nimes, as part of a 50km long water supply!  It is 48m high over three levels, and the top layer spans over 200m.  The large bottom arches (24m in diameter) are the biggest of any Roman aquaduct, and give the structure a light, airy feeling.

 

This is what happened the night we went. As we were walking over it, it started to rain a little, when we had got over we were walking down to the river for a nice swim, suddenly  thunder and lightning  started and heavy rain poured down, we ran for shelter and  where do you think we would go, it was under the bottom arches of the Pont du Gard! We were trapped under it for an hour. Rain and wind kept gushing in, but then it stopped and started, luckily we had some snacks and dinner. We were all on one side on a little rock, since the rain came in with wind we were covering ourselves with our towels that were supposed to be for our swim but I don’t think we are having a swim now! Finally the weather cleared up and we were free, it was just in time for the lights.

They shone brightly there was red, blue, yellow, pink, purple! After the plain lights there was a light show.

 

It showed you continents 5,000 years ago. It took you through time it showed you Roman, Egyptian and Inca temple times. It was amazing, but it was very late at night it was at 10:30pm so afterwards we were very tired. It was lots of fun going there because we could go to a Museum and see how it was made and there was even a children’s area where you could do hands on things that were back in the Roman times! I would definitely recommend it!!