Luxury cycling tour Gorges du Tarn and Cevennes

Millau, Gorges du Tarn, Grand Causses.

This trip will be in the three main areas of Tarn basin: Tarn valley, Pays de Roquefort and part of the Gorges and Causses, the canyons of the limestone plateau, most of all in Aveyron department.

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Pictures of Canyons, Gorges and Causses

Pictures of Pays de Roquefort.

From Hourtous in the Gorges du Tarn

This luxury Moderate or Challenging cycling tour will start from Millau to head into the Cevennes mountains and the Grands Causses area and its canyons.

With daily distances from 60 to 100 kms and with several climbs of 400 m per day (rise increase of 7-9 degree, 400m. altitude difference, climbs of 4 - 7 kms long this cycling tour is primarily meant for the trained cyclist.

The scenery in the Gorges is rather spectacular. See here for some Pictures of the Gorges du Tarn.

This tour starts and ends near Millau in **** hotel Château de Creissels.

In the Gorges du Tarn you will stay in **** hotel Château de la Caze.

In the Cevennes you will ride to Ganges and over the Mont Aigoual if you like. (1597 m).

After the stage in the Cevennes you can ride down into the spectacular Cirque the Navacelles, but you will have a tough climb up the plateau again.

See the page on the region of the Grands Causses for a description of the land.
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The Cevennes

In the eastern part of the territory of our walking and cycling tours you'll find the Cevennes and the Mont Aigoual. This part of the Massif Central is well known by Stephenson a Scottish hiker who passed this region a century ago and left his traces in the form of a well known GR.

In the Cevennes mountains at 20 km from Ganges you will stay in this **** hotel:

**** Château de Madières.

Château de Madieres

Hotel in de Gorges du Tarn

Château de la Caze **** in the Gorges du Tarn