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Admiring the view of the lower Ceze Valley - photo taken October 2006.
Our walking in France guide hopefully achieves its objective: to enlighten our hiking-hungry readership as to just some of the opportunities available to those hiking in France with The Enlightened Traveller.
The walking in France guide delights in bringing you an abundance of information to help you make the right choices when you are planning your walking in France. The articles below are designed to whet the appetite and provide the all-important cultural and geographical context for some fine walking.
We offer a variety of hiking tours in France’s following regions: Auvergne, Camargue, Cevennes, Languedoc, Provence and Rhone-Alps. The articles provide excellent background reading for those wishing to explore The Hexagon on foot.
The France walking guide is not exhaustive. It is still being populated and is regularly updated, so please return again in the future for further ideas on where to walk during your annual hiking holidays as well as those all-year-round long weekends, when you long for a short walking break in France.
Please click on the titles below to access your chosen article.
I. Walking in Languedoc-Roussillon
Ideas for hiking vacations are in abundance in this region, with its amenable climate and varied terrain. The Regordane Way, The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail, The Via Domitia and the French Compostella trail are just four inn-to-inn trekking trails that you can place on your wish list. Add to that the abundance of fine circular walks, many available all-year-round, and you see why Languedoc is in a class of its own in respect of options for hiking tours in France.
II. Hiking in The Gard
France’s quarry for the ‘vrai Pierre,’ you will delight in your Cevenol hikes or your rambles in western Provence.
III. Walking Camargue & Coast
For lovers of wildlife, especially of the winged variety, the Camargue is your nesting ground. Not to forget the ubiquitous black bulls and white horses...
The perched village of Cornillon from a garrigue vantage point - photo taken January 2007.
IV. Hill-walking in CevennesIn the renowned 'blue waves' of rolling hills, nature has created a walkers’ paradise. You simply need some advice as to the best way in according to your hiking experience.
V. Walking Nimes and its GarrigueWalking breaks are available throughout the year in the Mediterranean Garrigue. It’s light hiking of variable lengths to suit and the chance to enjoy some fine views as you immerse yourself in the magical aromas of the Garrigue.
VI. Hiking the Piedmont Cévénol
Under construction – please look back in the future!
VII. Trekking the Rhône Valley
Under construction – please look back in the future!
VII. Walking in UzegeUzes and the surrounding villages offer some of the finest opportunities for light rambling in France, and some excellent hotels, to boot. Relax in fine surroundings and enjoy fine cuisine at the end of your forays.
The lesser-known trails of the triangular area between the Ardeche, Rhone and Ceze valleys have some of the garrigue’s prettiest villages and hiking trails.
IX. Walking in Provence
From the Alps in the north east, to the Calanques and Camargue in the south via the Arpilles in the centre, opportunities abound for some fine walking.
The tallest menhir in the south of France - photo taken early Feb., 2009
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