H30

5 - 8 days

15-24 km per day Standard packages

5 - 9  Days, 4 to 8 days hiking from hotel to hotel **standard package .
Walker who like daily walks up to 24 km a day will enjoy this walk. You'll stay in 3 or 4 ** standard hotels, in Broquiès in a hotel at the river with a pool.
Birdwatchers and lovers of quiet and unspoiled nature will enjoy this walks. The old medieval villages and towns of the Pays des Raspes du Tarn on your way will add to your feeling connected with ancient times.

You'll start and end in St.Affrique where Saturdays market is a nice meeting place for the locals. You'll come in Broquiès too, where you can (in July and August) make an easy canoetrip in light streaming Tarn river. The hotel has a fine pool.

5- 8 days, demi pension, hotels with toilet, shower/bath en suite. Rambling on quiet footpaths is a memorable way of experiencing the divers French "campagne" (countryside). A land for bird- and plantlovers. The film 'Microcosmos' about the life of insects was shot here. The Museum Micropolis is not far away.
 

The hotel-keepers will pamper you with their outstanding cuisine!  No need to say you won't see anything like the crowded mediterranean coasts of France and Spain here. Only quiet mountains up to 700m, brooks and small nice villages in a beautiful natural environment.

Starting day: every day.

Pictures of the area of these walks in Tarn Valley

http://www.tourisme-aveyron.com/visite_virtuelle/index_uk.htm

Nice old towns to visit on the way: St. Rome-de-Tarn, St.Izaire and its episcopal castlle 16th decentury, Viala-du-Tarn,  Brousse-le-Château (9-13th century castle), Brousse-le-Château with a 9-13 ccentury castle and of course St.Affrique a nice southern small town with 9000 inhabitants adn a lively market Saturday morning.

Of this trip a budget package is availble too.

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