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Millau, Raspes & Valley of the Tarn

H21b
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Millau → Viaduc de Millau → St. Rome de Tarn → Ayssènes → Broquiès → Brousse-le-Château → Castelnau Pégayrols → Millau

  • 5 to 8 trekking days with option of extra (rest or walking) days.
  • Optional: alternately canoeing and walking stages from Millau towards Albi. Ask us!
     
    Packages Stages Prices

  • included: bags tranfer, B&B, all dinners except in Millau.
  • daily walks of 10 - 20 km, average 18 km.
  • grade 2 to 3 on scale 0-7.
  • **  and *** Hotels with toilet and shower/bath en suite in room
  • Dogs allowed without extra costs
  • Start and end in Millau from March 15th to October 31st.
  • Bags transfers included. 
  • Not included: Lunches. Price of lunches (take away picknicks) : 8 - 11 EURO.
  • Cancelling plus package possible on this walk.

You trip will be in the Tarn Valley and  the Raspes du Tarn in Aveyron department. Click here for a virtual visit of Aveyron and here for the Raspes du Tarn.

From Millau following river Tarn you'll walk in Western direction passing under the Millau viaduct in a loop of several days back to Millau. Towns and interesting places along the walk:
Towns and interesting places along the walk:

Viaduc de Millau - St. Rome de Tarn - Castelnau Pégayrols - Ayssènes - Broquiès - Viala-du-Tarn - Montjaux - Millau

Rambling on quiet footpaths is a nice way of experiencing the very divers French countryside. All along Tarn river nature will please bird- and plant and quiet lovers.
Past and under the viaduct of Millau (a beautiful design of a British architect) you will walk into Tarn valley.  In Tarn valley you'll walk to Castelnau Pégayrols, a UNESCO protected site. In a beautifull gîte with pool you'll stay one or two nights. Past a small hamlet in a dead-end valley and after a climb to Montjaux you will enjoy the farsights on Causses, the Cevennes Mountains and the Millau Viaduct.

Millau viaduct and the Causses
The hotel-keepers will pamper you with their outstanding cuisine.
Starting day: every day.
Elevation gains: once or twice 200 - 400m a day
Day distances: 11-21 km. A daily maximum of 14 kms is possible: ask for short walks when booking.
 
Pictures of the Tarn Valley
 

As with all other walks of La Ligne Verte you'll spend 90% of the walk on (single) tracks and unpaved roads. Villages you will pass are small villages with up to 200 inhabitants. Millau is a town with 22.000 people inhabitants. You will need to take your lunch with you. The hotels can provide a take away picknick (price € 8,- to € 12,-). In some villages you can buy what you need for your lunch
You will walk 3 to 4 kms an hour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Packages Stages Prices

Walk H21b - standard
Millau Viaduc and
Raspes & Vallée du Tarn 		5
days		 6
days		 7
days		 8
days		 Hotels
Standard Tour
Arrival in Millau and short or long roundwalk to the waterfalls  of Creissels. Do do the long round walk you should arrive in the morning or else book an extra night. 
3 or 13 km. Elevation gains: 100 or 300m.		 Day 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day 1 Millau B&B **
Over the Causse du Larzac and along the Viaduc de Millau to  St. Georges-de-Luzençon.
16 or 18 km. Elevation gains: 350m.
Transfer to your hotel in St. Rome-de-Tarn
Day 2 Day 2 Day 2 Day 2 St.Rome de Tarn
***
In Tarn valley through the Raspes du Tarn;  Transfer to Viala-du-Tarn and walk to Melvieu.
21 km. Elevation gains: 300m.
Day 3
 Day 3
 Day 3
 Melvieu **/***
 
Further into the Raspes along the Tarn you walk to Broquiès or make a roundwalk in Ayssènes up to the plateau du Lévézou.
12 or 19 km. Elevation gains: 300m.

Day 4
 Day 4
 Broquiès
**
Further into the Raspes along the Tarn you walk to Broquiès or make a roundwalk in Ayssènes up to the plateau du Lévezou.
12 or 19 km. Elevation gains: 300m.


Day 5
 Brousse-le-Château **
After a transfer to Montjaux you walk to the beautiful valley of the Muse. Past Castelnau  Pégayrols, a Unesco labeled  town. Overnight in a *** gîte with pool.
16 km. Elevation gains: 400m.		 Day 3
 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6
 Castelnau Pégayrols
**/***
In the footsteps of dinosaurs and past the Millau viaduct back to Millau. 
20km . Elevation gains: -300m. 		Day 4
 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Millau B&B
**
Leave after breakfast
 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8  

 
Packages Stages Prices

H21b - standard
2012
Bags transfer included		 B&B's Dinners Lunches Basic rate p.p.:
2p sharing
room		 Supplement
1-person
room		 Solo
All-in
5 days 4 2 0 € 431 € 119 € 651
6 days 5 3 0 € 563 € 141 € 847
7 days  6 4 0 € 679 € 149 € 999
8 days  7 5 0 € 745 € 159 € 1151

You can book this trip here
Extra (consecutive) nights B&B Dinner Lunch Rate p.p. 
2 p sharing room
Without route descriptions
and maps		 A map with
markings and written instructions
for a roundwalk		 Suppl.
1-person
room
Extra night in Millau B&B **  yes  no  no  € 40  free  € 29
Extra night in St. Rome-de-Tarn ***  yes  yes  no  € 83  free  € 38
Extra night in Melvieu  **/***  yes  yes  no  € 68  free  € 23
Extra night in Broquiès ** pool  yes  yes  no  € 63  free  € 12
Not included:   Lunches. Price of lunches (take away picknicks) : 9 - 11 EURO.

Discount on basic rate per person for groups and families; discount not  applicable on supplements and extra nights.
Terms and conditions of group discount

 

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Parties of  3 persons : 06 % p.p.
Parties of  4 persons : 09 % p.p.
Parties of  5 persons : 11 % p.p.
Parties of  6 persons : 12 % p.p.
Parties of  7 persons : 13 % p.p.
Parties of  8 persons : 14 % p.p.

Other packages of this walk in Tarn valley:
H21a - budget (* and **)  package: all details
H21c - plus (** and ***) package:  all   details
H21d - superior (*** and **) package:  all   details

 


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