This is truly a unique site - ancient, well preserved, and .....unexplained. We walked around and about and then visited the museum. Probably would have been better to visit the museum first although it offers little in the way of explanation. It's a mystery!

Actually, tho I thought many things in Brittany were over rated ( Cornwall it ain’t !) Carnac was brilliant. Not expensive. 40 min open bus trip €7. Souvenirs reasonable. No cafe on site tho. Car park free. Be aware that it’s not like Avebury or Stonehenge, they aren’t one group of stones that you can walk around in ten minutes. There are thousands of man sized stones , a couple of tombs etc all spread over several square km. I had the bus tour which was good value. It goes from the car park. €7. Or you’d be walking for a few miles , the sites are spread out all over the area. The visitors centre is good but doesn’t really tell you much about Carnac. No one seems to really know what it was built for , or why ! The nearby town is really nice. Lovely beach and sea front. Very upmarket! Good restaurants and shops. I’d make a day of it. Stones in morning, beach afternoon!!its a bit remote however. I had a 90 mile drive from st brieuc.

I really wish I could have done the personalised tour from the beautiful visitor centre but there was not one in English for a few hours so the kind lady gave me a very detailed map of the sites. Armed with this I used my rental bike to travel the length of the sites a few times (it's only 4km) and turns out the bike was perfect for exploring. If I was going again I'd pre-book a tour in my language as it's not ideal seeing the sites without some local knowledge. The visitor centre is also a very attractive modern building with facilites for visitors but such a pity it doesn't have a cafe. Maybe it will, next time I visit there. Don't miss the Menhirs next time you're in Brittany. I don't have any photos as I was travelling solo.

have not been since the late 80's still amazing, only now you can't walk up close to all of them you can go to the centre or drive along the road and see different locations on a slow drive. simple tip follow the tour bus and you've just followed the main route for all the locations. we went late afternoon and it was heaving in terms of parkinng.

This is actually one of three sites, all close to one another, and all linked by these rows of standing stones. Not much is known about them, of course, and they were not that interesting to look at. The guided tour lasts for an hour but could be a lot shorter and convey the same information.

Poor English annunciation and translation by tour guide - the German tourists who spoke good English had little idea of what she said. Too much use of phrases “we will never know”, “who knows” and “this is an anomaly” - basically they know very little - certainly not enough for a 75 minute talk. People were bored and fidgeting by the end. Stones were pretty impressive but not worth the tour - a lot of info free to pick up or Google!!