More sights from Luberon

After leaving Village des Bories, we drove up to Gordes, which is a very picturesque hill town.  To quote our Rick Steves guidebook:  In the 1960's Gordes was a virtual ghost town of derelict buildings ... Today Gordes is renovated top to bottom and filled with people who live in a world without calluses.

Gordes from the SW and below

View from the SE and below

We parked below the town and walked up the hill to see what it looked like from the top.

A view up from the top of Gordes

After a stop at a café, for something to drink, we continued on to Roussillon for lunch.  Roussillon is most famous for the high quality ochre (iron oxide) deposits upon which it sits (Mont Rouge = Red Mountain).  It is a charming looking village, where almost all the buildings are shades of ochre.

Ochre deposit

Ochre cliffs

Ochre-colored buildings

Street scene