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Hiking holiday in France, Vallée du Tarn & Viaduc de Millau

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Planning a tour

From Creissels (at 2 km from Millau) following river Tarn you'll walk in Western direction passing under the Millau viaduct in a loop of several days back to Creissels (see picture below).

• 5 to 9 day trekking-packages.
• Optional: alternately canoeing and walking stages from Millau towards Albi. Ask us!
• Plus packages (B&B+all dinners in ** and *** hotels and one ***Gîte).

• Walk: grade 2 to 3 on scale 0-7.
• Hotels **  and *** with toilet and shower/bath en suite in room
• Dogs allowed without extra costs.
• Start and end in Creissels at 2 km from Millau from March 15^th to October 31^st.
• Bags transfers included. 
  
• Not included: Lunches. Price of lunches (take away picknicks) : 8 - 11 EURO.
• cancelation-plus package possible
  on this walk.
• Find all travel information to get in the Grands Causses here.

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 Pays de Roquefort and Tarn valley. You will walk over the Larzac Causse to medieval towns such as St. Rome-de-Luzençon, St.Affrique, Montjaux and St. Rome-de-Tarn. 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. From here you will heading to theGorges of the Raspes du Tarn.

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: 11-20 km. A daily maximum of 14 kms is possible. Ask for it at booking.

As with all other tours 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 20000 peopleIn between the villages, with the necessary stores, you will pass farms but will need to take your lunch with you. The hotels can provide a take away picknick (price € 8,- to € 12,-).
You will walk 3 to 4 kms an hour.

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