Comprehensive Range

These self-guided walking tours in France are a broad-ranging and comprehensive selection of walking trips. They are designed to delight the needs of most hikers, occasional or avid. Summarised details of each of the walking tours in France can be found by simply scrolling the page.

Concise and full holiday details can be accessed by clicking the adjacent tour photo in each case. Alternatively, simply download the tour flyer via the relevant pdf icon.

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Easy Access and Convenience

Our self-guided walking tours in France are accessible within one day’s travel from your French starting point, so you commence hiking the next morning. Enjoy from three to fourteen days of stimulating walking, with luggage transfers included.

Trips always include accommodation and breakfast. A tour may include most, some or no dinners – and occasionally the odd lunch. If an over-night location offers customers conveniently-located options for dinner, we normally let you choose. Otherwise, evening meals are included.

Varied Locations and Themes

These self-guided walking tours in France cover a vast area of the country: from the Mediterranean Camargue, to the Tour du Mont Blanc in the north east and the Loire Valley in the north west. Choose from a range of themes according to your interests and tastes.

Our policy is to place our valued guests in the best accommodation available at each stage of their trip. Some tours include short transfers at the beginning or the end of the day’s walking.

Graded Challenges

Each of these self-guided walking tours in France is graded according to the level of physical challenge required. They are colour-coded accordingly as Light, Moderate or Harder. Trips are listed according to their length: from longer trips to short, 4-night breaks.

Most tours are available from mid-April to mid-October, when luggage transfer services end as a result of low demand.

Happy browsing, Stay healthy and Get hiking along one of our self-guided Walking Tours in France!

The Enlightened Traveller®

Self-guided Walking Tours in France 2024: Full-length


Self-guided Walking tours in France: Loire Chateaux Walks

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oire Chateaux Walks

“Light walking through the ‘Garden of France.’ Follow The Hexagon’s longest river and enjoy its unique and multi-faceted heritage.”

Loire Chateaux WalksLoire Chateaux Walks walking tour flyer

Highlights:
• One of our classic self-guided walking tours in France
• Visit Renaissance and medieval castles
• Explore the magical 16th Century gardens of Villandry, the Abbey at Fontevraud [resting place of Richard the Lion Heart] and Tours, the region’s most important city
• Get to know three of the Loire’s tributaries – Le Cher, l’Indre and La Vienne
• Marvel at the Valley’s troglodyte dwellings
• Immerse yourself in UNESCO’s Garden of France – one of the Country’s top wine-growing regions, showcasing the very best of French dry rosé wines
• click to download pdfs right – 7 and 10-night trips.

10-night – Prices:
• 10-night hotel comfort tour with 6 dinners and a 4-star hotel: £1670.00 Pounds Sterling or €1995.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

7-night – Prices:
• 7-night hotel comfort tour with 4 dinners and one 4-star hotel: £1245.00 Pounds Sterling or €1495.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Details:
• 7 or 10-night, self-guided, inn-to-inn tour
• Start any day, from mid-April to mid-October
• Tour starts in Blois and finishes in Saumur (10-nighter) – convenient access and departure by train
• Average 10 miles/16 kms per day
• We transport your luggage, you just carry a light day pack.

Saint-Guilhem Way

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aint-Guilhem Way

“One for the purists – one of the best walking tours in southern France.”

Saint-Guilhem Way walking tour flyer

Highlights:
• One of our classic self-guided walking tours in France
• Explore an ancient transhumance, medieval trading and pilgrimage trail crossing Lozère, Gard and Herault.
• Hike an extraordinary variety of landscapes, including Causses, Canyons and the magnificent Cirque de Navacelles.
• Visit and stay in some of southern France’s most picturesque villages.
• Big finish in medieval Saint-Guilhem-le-Dèsert.
• Choose from the 11 and 9-night options to personalise the trek to suit your needs.
• click to download the pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• 11-night rate: £1395.00 Pounds Sterling or €1640.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

• 9-night rate: £1140.00 Pounds Sterling or €1360.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Details:
• 11 or 9-night versions, starting any day in May, June and until mid-September.
• Welcoming mix of 2- and 3-star standard hotels, chambres d’hotes and auberges
• Varied trails through scenic and remote rural France.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Stevenson Trail-GR 70

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evenson Trail [GR70]

“The world’s original recreational hike and the benchmark for walking for pleasure.”

Stevenson Trail-GR 70 10-night walking tour flyerStevenson Trail-GR 70 12-night walking tour flyer

Highlights:
• A ‘world’s top travel adventure’ by Forbes Traveler – who recommend The Enlightened Traveller – see tour page for details
Our tour is recommended by The Times: see here
• Enjoy sub-alpine to Mediterranean flora and volcanic plateau to schist valley topography
• Hike the best of the Cevennes’ hill-crests and Mont Lozere – 5573 ft/1699 m.
• Choose from the options available to personalise the trek to suit your needs
• Visit fascinating and historic villages en route
• click to download pdfs right: 10 or 12-night trips.

Prices sharing:
• 10-night tour: £1220.00 Pounds Sterling or €1425.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

• 12-night tour: £1415.00 Pounds Sterling or €1650.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Details:
• 10 or 12-night versions, and start any day from mid-April to mid-October.
• Welcoming mix of ‘2-star standard’ hotels, chambres d’hotes and auberges
• Varied trails through scenic rural France.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Le Puy to Conques - Le Puy Route

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iking Le Puy to Conques – Le Puy Route

The finest section of France’s Compostella trail complemented by home comforts.

Le Puy to Conques - Le Puy Route walking tour flyer

Highlights:
• One of our classic self-guided walking tours in France
• The finest section of France’s legendary Pilgrimage trail
• Hike across five historic regions and through Auverge, Languedoc-Roussilon and Midi-Pyrenees
• Choose from two excellent accommodation-led formats to suit you
• Fine start – Le Puy en Velay and its World Heritage sites
• Big Finish: the ‘Unesco’ medieval cité of Conques
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• Guest house-led:
Price per person based on 2 persons sharing double room:
£1165.00 Pounds Sterling or €1385.00 Euros
• Hotel-led:
Price per person based on 2 persons sharing double room:
£1325.00 Pounds Sterling or €1575.00 Euros

Main Details:
• 12-night, self-guided, inn-to-inn walking tour through rural France.
• Averaging 12 miles a day over a total of 134 miles/215 kms. Options to shorten or lengthen days to suit your agenda
• Start any day, beg. April to mid-October
• The best accommodations en route at every stage.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Walking Tour of Mont Blanc in Comfort & Self-guided

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alking Tour du Mont Blanc in Comfort

The legendary three-country Alpine tour in the most leisurely of formats

Walking Tour of Mont Blanc in Comfort flyer

Main attractions:
• Europe’s ‘must do’ hiking trail
• One of our classic self-guided walking tours in France
• Walk at a more relaxed pace
• Stay in the best accommodation available – private rooms, no dormitories.
• Two starting points to suit your preference.
• Option to stay in two fine mountain refuges – requires extra nights.
• Walk options to suit your preferences on two days.
• Bad weather or recovery transfers – conditions apply.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• 12-night price with ONE Refuge:
£1920.00 GBP Sterling or €2295.00 Euros
• 11-night price with NO refuge:
£1865.00 GBP Sterling or €2225.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Facts:
• 11 or 12-night, self-guided, inn-to-inn tour around the Mont Blanc Massif
• Start any day from 22 June to 5 September
• Walk anti-clockwise for an enhanced experience
• Average 5½ hours and 9½ miles-15½ kms a day
• Carefully-selected accommodation of a high standard, with private rooms [no ‘dortoirs’/dormitories].
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Camino solo - GR65

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amino Solo®

Lone, but not alone, along The Way of Saint James.

Camino solo - GR65 walking tour flyer

Highlights:
• The finest section of France’s Classic Pilgrimage
• One of our classic self-guided walking tours in France
• Hike across five historic regions and through Auverge, Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrenees
• A carefully-selected and comfortable, accommodation-led format perfect for those walking alone
• Fine start – Le Puy en Velay and its World Heritage sites
• Big Finish: the ‘Unesco’ medieval cité of Conques
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• 7-night single person rate: £1230.00 Pounds Sterling or €1430.00 Euros
• 11-night single person rate: £1675.00 Pounds Sterling or €1940.00 Euros

Key Details:
• 7 or 11-night, self-guided, inn-to-inn walking tour through rural France.
• Averaging 13.5 miles a day over a total of 134 miles/215 kms. Options to shorten or lengthen days to suit your agenda
• Start any day, beg. April to mid-October
• Excellent accommodations en route at every stage
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Robert Louis Stevenson Trail EXTRA

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tevenson Trail France EXTRA

More Leisurely, More Convenient, more Enjoyment

Robert Louis Stevenson Trail EXTRA walking tour flyer

Main attractions:
• A ‘world’s top travel adventure’ following in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson – Forbes Traveler
Our tour is recommended by The Times: see here
• Extra day to break you in gently and
• Full board, including generous packed lunches
• Click to download pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• 13-night rate: £1530.00 Pounds Sterling or €1785.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 13-night trail version, and start any day from mid-April to mid-October.
• Welcoming mix of ‘2-star standard’ hotels, chambres d’hotes and auberges
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Walking Loire Valley

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alking Loire Valley

“Moderate challenge, Superlative experience!”

Walking Loire Valley 10-night tour flyerWalking Loire Valley - 7-night tour flyer

Highlights:
• One of our classic self-guided walking tours in France
• Visit Renaissance chateaux and medieval castles/chateaux forts
• Explore the magical 16th Century gardens of Villandry and the Abbey at Fontevraud [resting place of Richard the Lion Heart]

• Get to know three of the Loire’s tributaries – Le Cher, l’Indre and La Vienne
• Marvel at the Valley’s troglodyte dwellings and even request to stay in one overnight, subject to availability – boasting all creature comforts, bien sûr!
• Immerse yourself in UNESCO’s Garden of France and one of the Country’s top wine-growing regions, showcasing arguably the very best of French dry rosé wines
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• 7-night rate: £1095.00 Pounds Sterling or €1335.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

• 10-night rate: £1555.00 Pounds Sterling or €1860.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Details:
• Moderate challenge, self-guided, inn-to-inn tour
• Start any day, beg. mid-April to mid-October
• Tour starts in Blois or Amboise and finishes in Saumur – convenient access and departure by train
• Average 13 miles/21 kms per day
• 3-star standard hotels
• We transport your luggage, you just carry a light day pack.

Tarn Gorge Walking - St Chely du Tarn

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arn Gorge walking

UNESCO World Heritage: make the effort and exceed expectations.

Tarn Gorge Walking tour flyer

Main attractions:
• Circular tour starting and finishing in Meyrueis
• Light options on two days according to taste – choose on the day
• Tarn and Jonte Gorges
• Traverse the Causse Méjean limestone plateau
• Hike a spectacular Sauveterre ledge
• Troglodyte and Proto-historic villages
• Raptors, including Griffin vultures
• click to download pdf right.

Price: 9-night
£1060.00 Pounds Sterling or €1295.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key information:
• 9-night, self-guided, inn-to-inn tour
• 2-Star standard accommodation
• Start any day, early April to late October
• Luggage transfers throughout.

St Giles Pilgrimage

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Giles Pilgrimage: Garrigues, Costieres & Camargue

The second part of France’s important Medieval pilgrimage from Cevennes to The Mediterranean

St Giles Pilgrimage walking tour flyer

Main attractions:
• Discover a unique medieval pilgrimage trail with its English-speaking experts
• Enjoy light hiking through three natural regions
• Follow a historic Roman trail linking fine villages together along the Gardon Valley
• Stay in Aigues-Mortes, arguably the second finest walled medieval town in Le Midi [after Carcassonne] • Visit nearby Nimes, capital of Roman Gaul – remarkable arena, perfectly preserved temple, botanical gardens, pedestrianised historic centre
• click to download pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• £975.00 Pounds Sterling or €1195.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Facts:
• 7-night inn-to-inn tour
• Start any day, most of the year round
• Excellent accommodation standard
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Walking Provence West - Aigueze

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alking Provence-West

Light walking, unspoiled sun-soaked gorges, valleys and hill-top villages

Walking Provence West tour flyer

Highlights:
• Discover Megalithic Man’s footprint – dolmens, grotto and southern France’s tallest menhir
• Enjoy fine scenery and stunning gorges bewteen Ardeche and the Cèze Valley as you escape the crowds
• Hike Western Provence’s best trails and most fascinating hill-top villages
• Stay in superior countryside accommodation.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• Light to Moderate, 7-night tour:
£1195.00 Pounds Sterling or €1395.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 7-night, self-guided, multi-centre tour
• Start any day, April to June and September: too hot to walk in July and August
• Superior accommodation
• Average 9 miles/14.5 kms per day.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Stevenson trail Part Two - southern section - hill crest trail

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tevenson Way South

Walk the more challenging second half of the Robert Louis Stevenson Way across Mont Lozere and into Cevennes.

Stevenson Way South walking tour flyer

Highlights:
• A ‘world’s top travel adventure’ by Forbes Traveler- who recommend The Enlightened Traveller – see tour page for details
Our tour is recommended by The Times: click here for details.
• Enjoy sub-alpine flora, volcanic plateau and schist valley topography.
• Hike the best of the Cevennes’ hill-crests and Mont Lozere –
5573 ft/1699 m.
• Hike the ancient natural regions of Mont Lozere and Cevennes.
• Arpaon castle, the Mimente Valley and the Mirandol viaduct.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• £895.00 Pounds Sterling or €1075.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

• Single person rate: please enquire.

Key Details:
• 7-night moderate tour
• start any day from mid-April to mid-October.
• Welcoming mix of ‘2-star standard’ hotels, chambres d’hotes and auberges.
• Varied trails through scenic rural France.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Mont Blanc mini-tour

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alking Mont Blanc [mini-TMB tour]

Three countries in six days around the top half of the TMB trail staying in comfortable hotels

Mont Blanc mini-hiking tour flyer

Main attractions:
• Walk half of Europe’s ‘must do’ hiking trail at a relaxed pace.
• Stay in the best accommodation available – private rooms, no dormitories, in 3* hotels and auberges.
• Start in Courmayeur, Italy, finish in Chamonix, France.
• Option to stay in two fine mountain refuges – requires one extra night.
• Walk option to suit your preferences on one day – the metallic ladders or not?
• Bad weather or fatigue transfers – conditions apply.*
• Luggage transfers throughout.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• 7-night price: £1195.00 GBP Sterling or €1470.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Details:
• 7-night, self-guided, inn-to-inn tour around the Mont Blanc Massif
• Start any day from 15 June to 8 September
• Walk anti-clockwise for an enhanced experience
• Average 5½ hours and 9½ miles-15½ kms a day
• Carefully-selected and comfortable accommodation of a good standard, with private rooms [no ‘dortoirs’/dormitories] throughout.
• Luggage transfers.

Self-guided walking trips in France: Hiking tour Mont Blanc - Villes des Glaciers

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ont Blanc hiking tour Part Two: the southern half

Walk from Chamonix to Courmayeur in six days round the
bottom half of the TMB trail

Hiking tour Mont Blanc - walking tour flyer

Highlights:
• Walk the southern half of Europe’s top hiking trail.
• Stay in the best accommodation available – no dormitories (see below).
• Start in Chamonix [France], finish in Courmayeur [Italy].
• Bad weather or fatigue transfers – optional and conditions apply.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• 6-night price: £1075.00 Pounds Sterling or €1295.00 Euros
[based on two sharing a double or twin-bedded room]

• Option to add extra days / nights

Key facts:
• 6-night, self-guided, inn-to-inn tour around the Mont Blanc Massif
• Start any day from 15 June to 8 September
• Walk anti-clockwise for an enhanced experience
• Average 5½ hours and 9½ miles-15½ kms a day
• Carefully-selected, comfortable accommodation of a good standard: three nights in 3-star hotels, one superior 2-star hotel, a country auberge and a mountain refuge with private rooms [no ‘dortoirs’/dormitories].
• Luggage transfers.

Self-guided hiking tours in France:Tarn Gorge Walks EXTRA - Tarn Vases

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arn Gorge walks EXTRA

Extra comfort and extra convenience in France’s only inhabited canyon.

Tarn Gorges Walking trip flyer

Main attractions:
• Free fast-track access transfer to get you quickly into position
• Superior accommodation, including a chateau stay
• Lighter options on two days if preferred – choose on the day
• Balcon de Vertige and its spectacular rock formations
• Tarn and Jonte Gorges
• Causses Méjean and Sauveterre limestone plateau
• Troglodyte and Proto-historic villages
• Raptors, including Griffin vultures
• click to download pdf right.

Price: 7-night in Superior Accommodation:
£1095.00 Pounds Sterling or €1325.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 7-night, self-guided, inn-to-inn tour
• Start any day, early April to late October
• Express access to Meyrueis, from either Ales [via Nimes] or Millau.
• Express departure from Ste-Enimie to either Ales or Millau.
• All breakfasts, 6 dinners and 4 lunches included.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Self-guided walking holidays in France: Walking St James Way in Comfort

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alking St James Way in Comfort

The first week of the most popular of the four ‘French Ways’, the Via Podiensis

Walking St James Way in Comfort - hiking tour flyer

Highlights:
• The best week of the Camino Frances
• One of our classic self-guided walking tours in France
• Hike through three historic regions of Auverge and Occitanie
• Choose from two high-level accommodation-based formats to suit you
• Le Puy en Velay and its World Heritage sites
• Unesco’s World Heritage section between Nasbinals and Aubrac
• click to download pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• Guest house experience:
Price per person based on 2 persons sharing double room:
£795.00 Pounds Sterling or €940.00 Euros

• Hotel-led:
Price per person based on 2 persons sharing double room:
£895.00 Pounds Sterling or €1070.00 Euros

Key Details:
• 7-night, self-guided, inn-to-inn walking tour through rural France.
• Averaging 12 miles a day over a total of 82½ miles/133 kms. Options to shorten or lengthen days to suit your agenda
• Start any day, beg. April to mid-October
• The best accommodations en route at every stage.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Self-guided walking trips in France: Stevenson Way North - arquejol viaduct

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tevenson Way North

Walk the gentler first half of the Robert Louis Stevenson trail from Velay into Gevaudan.”

Stevenson trail part one - walking tour flyer

Main attractions:
• A ‘world’s top travel adventure’ by Forbes Traveler- who recommend The Enlightened Traveller – see tour page for details
Our tour is recommended by The Times: see here
• Enjoy sub-alpine flora, volcanic plateau and the Upper Loire Valley.
• Hike the ancient natural regions of Velay & Gevaudan.
• Beaufort & Luc castles and the Arquejol viaduct.

• Medieval Pradelles and other fine and historic villages en route.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £775.00 Pounds Sterling or €925.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Facts:
• 6-night light-to-moderate version, averaging 9 miles/13½ kms per day
• start any day from mid-April to mid-October.
• Welcoming mix of ‘2-star standard’ hotels, chambres d’hotes and auberges.
• Varied trails through scenic rural France.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Hillwalking in Cevennes

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illwalking in Cevennes

France’s unspoiled Final Frontier of blue rolling hills.

Self-guided hiking trips in France: Hillwalking in Cevennes tour flyer

Highlights:
• Enjoy a fabulous walk along the mountain crest en route to St Jean du Gard.
• Walk the final section of the Stevenson Trail – a taster before returning to walk it all?
• Visit the Museum of the Desert in Mialet [in memory of the Protestants persecuted in Cevennes] and the Museum of Cevenol Life in St Jean*
• Opportunity to enjoy a steam train ride to Anduze and back*.
• Hike an infamous Cevenol trail used by Camisards to attack the King’s garrison during the Huguenots Uprising.
• click to download pdf right.

* Entrance fees are not included in the tour

Prices:
£815.00 Pounds Sterling or €895.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

• Single person rate – please enquire

Key Facts:
• 6-night, self-guided, multi-centre tour
• Start any day, early April to mid October
• Easy access from either Ales via Nimes.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

The Best of Stevenson

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est of Stevenson

the finest sections along one of France’s top-ten hiking experiences

The Best of Stevenson hiking tour flyer

Main attractions:
• Our tour is recommended by The Times: see on-site tour page
• Miss out some forestry and tarmac stretches, plus the Mimente Valley railway section.
• Enjoy sub-alpine to Mediterranean flora and volcanic plateau to schist valley topography.
• Hike the best of the Cevennes’ hill-crests and Mont Lozere – 5573 ft/1699 m.
• Visit fascinating and historic villages en route.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
£955.00 Pounds Sterling or €1120.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Details:
• 7-night self-guided tour
• Start any day, beg. April to mid-October
• Tour starts in Le Puy-en-Velay and finishes in Florac
• Welcoming mix of ‘2-star standard’ hotels and auberges
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Walking the Gardon Gorge - Limestone pavement

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alking the Gardon Gorge

A ‘Grand site de France’ with a grand finale: Le Pont du Gard

Self-guided walking holidays in France: Walking the Gardon Gorge tour flyer

Highlights:
• Pont du Gard as few get to see it
• Huguenots’ history
• Explore a Grotto [Outside nesting season] • Uzès – First Duchy of France.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• £995.00 Pounds Sterling or €1270.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Facts:
• 7-night inn-to-inn tour
• Start any day, all year round
• Excellent accommodation.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Walking Cevennes by Rail - viaduct

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alking Cevennes by Rail

Eco-friendly day walks via Le Cévenol Mountain Railway

Self-guided hiking holidays in France: Walking Cevennes by Rail tour flyer

Highlights:
• Discover France’s finest mountain railroad – the ‘Line of One Hundred Tunnels’
• Enjoy fine scenery from your seat and then walk it for yourself
• Experience some of the Cevennes’ and Lozere’s best trails
• Personalise the hikes to suit your needs on most days
• Visit fascinating medieval villages and explore the wonders of Lake Villefort
• Walk the finest stretch of the Regordane way
• click to download pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• £795.00 Pounds or €875.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 7-night multi-center tour
• Arrive any day of the week from mid-April to mid-October
• Two-star accommodation standard
• Collection from and return to stations where hotel is more than 5 minutes walk from the station.

St Giles Way - Part One - cote Bayard

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Giles Way – Part One

A Master Class in French history

Self-guided walking holidays in France: St Giles Way Part One trip flyer

Main attractions:
• Discover a unique medieval pilgrimage with the English-speaking experts on the trail
• Enjoy ever-changing flora, from sub-alpine to Mediterranean
• Traverse fascinating linear settlements and villages
• Visit numerous historic buildings, incl. castles, chapels and churches
• Walk volcanic plateau, impressive gorge, schist valley and Lake Villefort en route to Portes Castle
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £1095.00 Pounds Sterling or €1295.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Details:
• 7-night linear tour
• Arrive any day of the week from mid-April to mid-October
• Two-star accommodation standard
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Donkey trekking Stevenson - time for lunch

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onkey trekking Stevenson

A classic trek in a lighter format in perfect company

Donkey trekking Stevenson tour flyer

Highlights:
• Hike in R. L. Stevenson’s footsteps
• Top-ten literary trail in remotest France
• Our tour is recommended by The Times: click here
• Trek with a donkey and let it take the strain – its walked the trail before!
• Light-to-moderate hiking across two distinct historical regions – made lighter and/or moderate due to the addition of the donkey
• click to download pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• €1175.00 Euros or £995.00 Pounds Sterling
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key facts:
• 6-night, self-guided lighter walking tour accompanied by a donkey
• Arrive any day of the week from mid-April to mid-October
• 2-star accommodation standard

Hikes along the Loire - vines beside the river

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ikes along the Loire

UNESCO’S Loire from Tours to Saumur
Self-guided hiking holidays in France: Hikes along the Loire trip flyer
Highlights:
• Visit two Renaissance chateaux and two medieval castles/chateaux forts – optional fifth if adding extra night in Montsoreau
• Explore the magical 16th Century gardens of Villandry, the Abbey at Fontevraud [resting place of Richard the Lion Heart] and Tours, the region’s most important city
• Get to know two of the Loire’s tributaries – l’Indre and La Vienne
• Marvel at the Valley’s troglodyte dwellings
• Immerse yourself in UNESCO’s Garden of France and one of the Country’s top wine-growing regions, showcasing arguably the very best of French dry rosé wines
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £1055.00 Pounds Sterling or €1285.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 6-night inn-to-inn tour
• Start any day, mid-April to mid-October
• 3-star hotel accommodation standard
• Luggage transfers throughout

Walking France's Garrigue-sunflowers at vezenobres

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alking France’s Garrigue

A Roman trail across scenic Mediterranean landscape
Self-guided hiking holidays in France: Walking France's Garrigue trip flyer
Highlights:
• Appreciate Roman Nimes from a unique access trail
• Discover Huguenots country
• Explore a Roman trail linking hill-top villages
• Fine character accommodation, Mediterranean cuisine and Costieres wines
• Stay in Medieval Vezenobres
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
•£920.00 Pounds Sterling & €1050.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 6-night inn-to-inn tour
• Start any day, all year round
• Good accommodation standard.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Walking Cèzarenque - Courry village

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alking Cèzarenque

Escape to a world of organic farming and alternative lifestyles.

Walking Cèzarenque tour flyer

Highlights:
• Walk back [or forward?] in time to a land where nature is unspoiled and tradition valued
• Discover flourishing alternative farming, hippy communities, pure waters and a remarkable dam
• Enjoy fine, remote and under-discovered trails and a sense of true escape
• Explore a Castle, Clede, Clinton [American grape] wine producer and organic farm – optional and subject to availability
• A welcoming hotel and a walkers’ inn renowned for its freshly-cooked and vegetarian cuisine.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices sharing:
• €975.00 Euros or £825.00 Pounds Sterling
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Details:
• 6-night, self-guided tour, featuring four circular hikes and one inn-to-inn walk.
• Dual-centre tour, so you do not change hotels each night.
• Three days are rated as posing a moderate challenge, with two harder days.
• Commence any Thursday, Friday or Saturday from early March to mid-November or any day in July or August.
• Tour starts and finishes in Alès, with pre and post-tour transfers.
• Three nights in a family-run, town centre hotel and three nights in welcoming, council-run walkers’ inn.

Walking in Cantal - man eyeing Breche Roland

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alking in Cantal

Walk Europe’s largest extinct volcano and the enchanting summits, ridges and valleys that constitute this hikers’ paradise.

Walking in Cantal - hiking tour flyer

Main attractions:
• One of our classic self-guided walking tours in France
• A scenic Compostella variant – Via Averna.
• A sumptuous ancient Roman trail.
• Fine Cantal villages & glacial valleys.
• Five peaks over 5000′ [1500 ms], incl. Puy Mary (5848′) &
Plomb du Cantal (6084′).
• Excellent level of accommodation.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• 6-night price: £950.00 Pounds Sterling or €1125.00 Euros
[based on two sharing a double or twin-bedded room]

Key facts:
• self-guided harder walking tour, with one moderate day
• Arrive any day of the week from mid-May to mid-October bar Sundays and Tuesdays
• Tour starts and finishes in Murat
• Multiple access options – airports & SNCF
• Excellent accommodation standard
• Luggage transfers.

Self-guided walking Tours in France 2024: 4-night/3-day options


Self-guided walking tours in France: Taste of Loire hiking

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aste of Loire hiking

UNESCO’S ‘Garden of France’ with magnificent Renaissance chateaux.
Self-guided walking tours in France: Taste of Loire hiking
Highlights:
• Four Renaissance chateaux
• The home of Leonardo da Vinci
• The ornate gardens of Chenonceau and Chaumont
• Superior hotel accommodation.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £735.00 Pounds Sterling or €895.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 4-nights, 3 dinners and start any day from mid-April to mid-October.
• Light walking along a mix of trails: river-side, through woods and forests, across farmland and alongside vines.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Self-guided walking tours in France: Hiking in Provence - Sautadet Falls & Martel Bridge

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iking in Provence

Hiking Provence’s remarkable lower Cèze valley.
Self-guided walking tours in France:Hiking in Provence
Highlights:
• The Ardeche gorge
• Valbonne forest & its Carthusian monastery
• The Sautadet Falls & fascinating hill-top villages.
• Superior countryside accommodation.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £635.00 Pounds or €775.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 4-nights, and start any day from March to mid-October.
• Light walking along undulating rustic trails.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Self-guided walking tours in France:The Ass-ential Stevenson - woman and donkey

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he Ass-ential Stevenson

Donkey trekking along the R.L. Stevenson Trail for all the family.
Self-guided walking tours in France:The Ass-ential StevensonSelf-guided walking tours in France:The Ass-ential Stevenson
Main attractions:
• Classic trail – walk in the footsteps and hoof prints of…
• Four nights eco-friendly walking in scenic Haute Loire
• Adult and family options
• Welcoming countryside accommodation, including family suites.
• click to download a pdf right – 4 & 2 persons respectively.

Prices:
Two adults with one donkey rate:
• €1135.00 Euros or £925.00 Pounds Sterling
[per person in shared double or twin-bedded room]

or

Special Family group rate with one donkey:
• €2395.00 Euros or £1995.00 Pounds Sterling
[Two adults and two children.]

Key Details:
• 4-nights, and start any day from April to mid-October.
• Light walking along undulating rustic trails.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Pont du Gard Walking - the Pont du Gard viaduct - fabulous view

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ont du Gard Walking

Gastronomic hiking in Uzège
Self-guided walking tours in France:Pont du Gard Walking
Highlights:
• Walk the Gardon Gorges
• Visit and experience the Pont du Gard as few others do
• Explore a fascinating limestone cavern
• Superior accommodation
• click to download the pdf right.

Prices:
4-night Light-to-Moderate tour:
£640.00 Pounds Sterling or €765.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key facts:
• 4-nights, any day all year round.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Hiking Camargue - camargue horse

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iking Camargue

Walking France’s Unique, but Fragile, Multi-faceted Delta
Self-guided walking tours in France:Hiking Camargue
Highlights:
• Savour the Mediterranean ambiance, cuisine and culture.
• Start in Roman Nimes and finish in the walled crusader-town of Aigues-Mortes on the Med.
• Hike a mix of pilgrimage route [GR700 & 653], Costiere trail and the Canal de Rhone a Sete.
• Walk a delta rich in wildlife: beaver, bull, flamingo and white horse.
• click to download the pdf right.

Prices:
• £755.00 Pounds Sterling or €895.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 4-nights, start any day, all year round
• Gentle ascents & descents, average 5 hours walking and 11 miles/17½ kms a day.
• Convenient access from Nimes.
• Welcoming two-star standard hotels
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Grande Motte: Fitness & Good Life - two joggers

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Grande Motte: Fitness & Good Life

Light walking plus either golf or multi-activities
Self-guided walking tours in France:Grande Motte: Fitness & Good Life
Highlights:
• Half-day, short walking/jogging/running circuits and distances to suit you, with PM options according to your own interests.
• Florida-style freeways for golfers.
• Multi-sport package includes cycling, fitness/gym, tennis [synthetic courts],
swimming [in-door heated] with Spa and Well-Being option or half-day cruise.
• click to download the pdf right.

Prices sharing [4-night] start from 645.00 Pounds Sterling or 740.00 Euros per person

Key Details:
• 4-nights,self-guided, single-centre programme
• Start any day, all year round.
• B&B in 4-star Golf hotel or 4-star marina hotel options
• Why not combine this tour with our nearby light, inn-to-inn Hiking in Camargue trip? The perfect complement.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Walks in Provence - Montclus bridge

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alks in Provence

The best of unspoiled Western Provence compacted into three glorious days.
Self-guided walking tours in France:Walks in Provence
Main attractions:
• Discover Megalithic Man’s footprint – dolmens, grotto and southern France’s tallest menhir
• Enjoy two fine gorges and the Sautadet Falls
• Stay two nights in Uzès, the First Duchy of France
• Hike Western Provence’s best trails and most fascinating hill-top villages
• Stay in superior accommodation.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £675.00 Pounds Sterling or €795.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key facts:
• 4-nights [B&B],self-guided tour, with one moderate day: average 9 miles/14.5 kms per day.
• Start any day, beg. April to end-September.
• Tour starts in Roque-sur-Ceze and finishes in Uzès
• We transport your luggage, you just carry a light day pack.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Trails of the French Garrigues - fine cactus

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rails of the French Garrigues

Bask in the aromas, flavours and vines of the Mediterranean hinterland
Self-guided walking tours in France:Trails of the French Garrigues
Highlights:
• Discover Huguenots country
• Explore a Roman trail linking hill-top villages
• Fine character accommodation, Mediterranean cuisine & Costieres wines
• Stay in Medieval Vezenobres
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• €740.00 Euros or £645.00 Pounds Sterling
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 4-nights,self-guided tour
• Start any day, all year round
• Tour starts and finishes in Alès
• We transport your luggage, you just carry a light day pack.

Self-guided walking tours in France:France on foot & by rail - Chamborigaud viaduct

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rance on Foot & by Rail

Stimulating hikes laced together by short train-rides along
the “line of 100 tunnels.”

Self-guided walking tours in France:France on foot & by rail
Main attractions:
• Discover France’s finest mountain railroad with its remarkable viaducts
• Enjoy fine scenery from your seat and then walk it for yourself
• Experience some of the Ardeche’s and Lozere’s best trails
• Personalise the hikes to suit your needs on the day
• Explore fascinating medieval villages and visit Lake Villefort
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £555.00 GBP or €645.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Single person rate – please enquire

Key Details:
• 4-nights, flexible light or moderate walking tour – choose the physical challenge to suit you
• Arrive any day of the week from mid-April to mid-October
• Tour starts in Villefort and finishes in Langogne
• Welcoming countryside accommodation.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Walking Cevennes Heaven - hillside terraces

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iking Cevennes Heaven

Hill-walking in Unesco’s recently-garlanded World Heritage site.
Self-guided walking tours in France:Walking Cevennes Heaven
Highlights:
• Enjoy a fabulous walk along the mountain crest en route to St Jean du Gard.
• Walk the final section of the Stevenson Trail.
• Visit the Museum of the Desert in Mialet [in memory of the Protestants persecuted in Cevennes] and the Museum of Cevenol Life in St Jean*
• Opportunity to enjoy a steam train ride to Anduze and back*.
• click to download pdf right.

* Costs not included in the tour.

Prices:
• £625.00 Pounds Sterling or €740.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key facts:
• 4-nights, starting any day between mid-March to mid-October.
• Tour starts in Ales and finishes in St Jean du Gard.
• Excellent hotels.
• We transport your luggage, you just carry a light day pack.

Self-guided walking tours in France: Hiking Tarn Gorges trails - Hauterives village

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iking Tarn Gorges trails

A hiking extravaganza along the mythical banks and clifftops of the Tarn canyon.
Self-guided walking tours in France:Hiking Tarn Gorges trails
Highlights:
• France’s only inhabited gorge, with overnight stops in the fine villages, incl. Ste.-Enimie
• The Tarn Gorge from above and below
• Causses Méjean and Sauveterre limestone plateau
• Troglodyte settlements & hamlets only reachable by boat or hiking trail
• Raptors, including Griffin vultures
• click to download pdf right.

Prices
£665.00 Pounds Sterling or €795.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 4-nights, self-guided tour.
• Start any day, early April to late October
• Good accommodation standard, incl. chateau stay
• Luggage transfers from start to finish.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Best of The Regordane - Garde Guerin

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est of The Regordane

One of the great French walks and France’s quintessential historical trail in ‘best of’ format.
Self-guided walking tours in France:Best of The Regordane
Main attractions:
• One of our classic short self-guided walking tours in France
• Discover a trail that shaped French history
• Medieval Garde-Guerin and Chassezac Gorge
• Luc & Garde-Guerin castles
• Lake Villefort
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £660.00 Pounds Sterling or €760.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key facts:
• 4-nights, starting any day between mid-April to late October
• Start in Pradelles and finish in Genolhac, near Alès
• Good ‘2-star’ accommodation standard throughout
• We transport your luggage.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Taste of Camino Frances - cross at Aubrac

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reat Taste of Camino Frances

Do your Camino your way!
Self-guided walking tours in France:Taste of Camino Frances
Highlights:
• Choose between a hotel-led or a chambres-d’hotes-led format to suite your preference.
• Enjoy a slice of the best section of Europe’s Classic Pilgrimage trail.
• Hike the mythical ‘UNESCO’ World Heritage section from Nasbinals to St Chely across the Aubrac Plateau.
• Finish on the banks of the scenic River Lot
• click to download pdf right.

Prices: shared double-room rate:
• Guest-house-led option:
£580.00 Pounds Sterling or €660.00 Euros

• Hotel-led option:
£635.00 Pounds Sterling or €730.00 Euros

• Extra nights: On Request

Key Details:
• 4-night, self-guided, inn-to-inn walking tour through rural France.
• Averaging 12½ miles-20 kms a day over a total of up to 43 miles/69 kms.
• Start any day, beg. April to mid-October.
• Luggage transfers throughout.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Very Best of Stevenson trail - chemin des cretes

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ery Best of Stevenson

The three best days of the Robert Louis Stevenson trail and an unforgettable 45-mile/72-km trek into the heart of Cevennes.
Self-guided walking tours in France:Very Best of Stevenson trail
Main attractions:
• A ‘world’s top travel adventure’ by Forbes Traveler- who recommend The Enlightened Traveller as your hosts
Our tour is recommended by The Times: click here
• Enjoy sub-alpine to Mediterranean flora and volcanic plateau to schist valley topography
• Hike fine Cevennes’ hill-crests and Mont Lozere, the tallest mountain in the southern Central Massif [5573 ft/1699 ms.] • Visit fascinating and historic villages en route
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £595.00 Pounds Sterling or €695.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Main facts:
• 4-night, harder, self-guided tour
• Start any day, late. April to mid-October.
• Tour starts in La Bastide and finishes in Florac
• Best access from Nimes, with onward train to La Bastide via Ales [2 hours] • Best departure is by bus back to Ales [75 mins., not Sundays] • We transport your luggage, you just carry a light day pack.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Hiking the Upper Cèze Valley - isolated hamlet

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iking the Upper Cèze Valley

Explore our trip round the eco-friendly eastern flank of the Cevennes,
in the Valley that Time Forgot.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Hiking the Upper Cèze Valley
Main attractions:
• Walk back [or forward?] in time to a land where nature is unspoiled and tradition valued
• Enjoy an oasis of alternative lifestyles and organic farming, pure waters and a remarkable dam
• Enjoy fine, remote and under-discovered trails and hill crests in the pristine hills and valleys of eastern Cévennes
• Explore a Castle, Clede [for chestnut drying], Clinton wine producer and organic farm – optional and subject to availability
• A welcoming hotel and a walkers’ inn renowned for its freshly-cooked and vegetarian cuisine
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• €655.00 Euros or £570.00 Pounds Sterling
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key facts:
• 4-nights, self-guided tour featuring two circular hikes and one inn-to-inn walk.
• Commence any Thursday, Friday or Saturday from early March to mid-November or any day in July or August.
• We transport your luggage.

Self-guided Walking tours in France:Best of walking Auvergne - the Roman trail GR400

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est of walking Auvergne

Cantal’s verdant volcanic uplands with complementary accommodation.
Self-guided walking tours in France:Best of walking Auvergne
Highlights:
• Cantal’s inactive volcanic uplands.
• A sumptuous ancient Roman trail.
• Fine Cantal villages & The Cère & Jordan glacial valleys.
• Puy Mary (5848′), Plomb du Cantal (6084′), Bréche de Rolland and Puy Chavaroche.
• Three fine hotels.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £610.00 Pounds Sterling or €740.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Details:
• 4-night,self-guided tour, with one circular walk [= two nights in one hotel].
• Arrive any day of the week from mid-May to mid-October
• Tour starts and finishes in Murat for easy access & departure
• We transport your luggage, you just carry a light day pack.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Great Taste of Mont Blanc: Switzerland to France - woman on bridge

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reat Taste of Mont Blanc: Switzerland to France

Sample a section of the mythical Tour du Mont Blanc,
from Lake Champex to Chamonix.

Self-guided walking tours in France:Taste of Hiking Mont Blanc
Main attractions:
• Europe’s ‘must do’ hiking experience.
• Enjoy fabulous Alpine scenery in modest stages.
• Stay in the best accommodation available – private rooms, no dormitories.
• 3-days of walking in two different countries.
• Bad weather transfers – conditions apply.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• £680.00 Pounds Sterling or €795.00 Euros
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key facts:
• 4-night,self-guided tour, any day from mid-June to mid-September.
• Tour starts in Champex, Switzerland and finishes in Les Praz de Chamonix, near Chamonix.
• Best access: Geneva or Paris, with onward fast trains.
• Welcoming hotels, averaging superior ‘2-star standard’.
• We transport your luggage.

Self-guided walking tours in France: Fine Walks in the Alps - arrival in Switzerland

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ine walks in the Alps

The easiest introduction to the magical TMB.
Self-guided walking tours in France:Walks in the Alps
Highlights:
• Enjoy two nights in alpine Italy and two in scenic Switzerland.
• Start in idyllic Courmayeur, Italy, finish on the banks of Lac Champex in the Swiss Alps.
• Stay in the best accommodation available – private rooms with en suite facilities – no dormitories.
• Option to experience one or two nights in the best of alpine refuges, staying in private rooms – ask for details.
• Bad weather transfers – conditions apply.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• €810.00 Euros or £695.00 Pounds Sterling
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Fact file:
• 4-night,self-guided tour, any day from mid-June to mid-September.
• Tour starts in Courmayeur, Italy and finish on the banks of Lac Champex in the Swiss Alps.
• Best access: Geneva,Turin/Milan or Chamonix with onward shuttle or coach.
• Welcoming hotels, averaging superior ‘2-star standard’.
• We transport your luggage.

Self-guided walking tours in France:French Mont Blanc - Col de Bonhomme

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rench Mont Blanc

Three of the finest days’ walking anywhere in Europe.
Self-guided walking tours in France: French Mont Blanc
Main attractions:
• Enjoy the cream of the French TMB, with two options for the first and third days’ to suit you.
• Stay in the best accommodation available – private rooms with en suite facilities – no dormitories.
• Choose between the ladders or the GRP up to the legendary ‘Balcon du Sud’ and the serene Lac Blanc.
• Bad weather transfers – conditions apply.
• click to download pdf right.

Prices:
• €765.00 Euros or £660.00 Pounds Sterling
[per person, shared double or twin-bedded room]

Key Details:
• 4-night,self-guided tour, any day from mid-June to mid-September.
• Average 5 hours and 9 miles/14½ kms a day.
• Tour starts in Argentiere and ends in Les Contamines.
• Convenient access from Paris or Geneva, Switzerland.
• Luggage transfers throughout – up to 20 kgs per person.
• Comfortable and welcoming ‘superior 2-star standard,’ hotels throughout with en-suite facilities.

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