Summer holidays

LE PETIT TRAIN D’ARTOUSTE

This summer I went to Artouste with my family. It’s a French village located near the border, between Spain and France, in the Ossau valley. Although it isn’t a crowded area, it receives a lot of tourist, like me and my family, which wants to take “Le petit Train”. “Le petit Train” is a red and yellow train that goes through beautiful valley and it takes you to a nice lake. It’s the highest train in Europe!

When we bought the tickets for it, we took a cable car that brought as to the train. From there, there were very beautiful views of the Midi d’Ossau. The trip took 1 hour approximately. 

The train passed through a very narrow tunnel, it was so narrow that only a train could pass through it. When we were out of the tunnel we saw amazing and huge mountains. We were so high that although it was summer, we were wearing jackets. When we arrived, we walked around 20 minutes of an ascent path till a very beautiful lake. We had lunch there, sandwiches and some fruit. Then my sister and I found a small pond with lots of tadpoles and some tritons. I had never seen tritons before, they are in danger of extinction. 

In our way back we saw six marmots near the tracks, probably they were waiting for us to give them some food. We also saw an eagle. When we arrived at the train station I drank a typical drink of France, mint syrup. It was delicious!

After this nice day we returned to our apartment.