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The walk starts from the lake car park, but the starting point can easily be moved to one of the two car parks in the village centre. The leisure centre is next to a motorhome site and a car park for visitors to the lake.
Although this walk follows a yellow-marked route in places, it is a different route and you should not rely on these markings.
(S/E) Leave the car park by taking the uphill path to Chemin des Zizines, which you take on the left. Continue to the first junction.
(1) Head up to the right to the “Give Way” sign or the stone cross. Take the path up to the right for about 50 m, then take the small path up to the right which makes a hairpin bend and continue to the fountain (on the right).
30 m further on, take the Chemin des Vignes on your right. After about 450 m, ignore the path branching off to the right and continue along the Chemin des Vignes.
(2) After about 300 m, the path makes a hairpin bend to the right above a fairly deep stream. Continue along the path for about 800 m to reach a gate.
(3) To the left of the gate, a ‘jasse’ – a rural building in the Aveyron dialect – guards the entrance to the field.
Open the gate (make sure to close it properly), then head straight across towards the chestnut grove.
In the chestnut grove, continue straight on through the adjoining field. Follow the edge of the field to a fence.
(4) Follow the fence on the right for about 200m.
(5) Two consecutive gates lead onto a path wide enough for a farm vehicle. Take this path on the left for about 750m. When you reach a junction, turn right for 100m.
(6) The track branches off to the right; ignore it. Take a narrower track on the left which climbs quite steeply and is very poorly gravelled. After 1,200m of almost continuous climbing, you emerge into open country.
(7) Leave the path ahead and turn left into the undergrowth. After 600m of gentle undulating terrain, the Pradels farm comes into view.
(8) 50m after passing the farm, take the path on the left that runs alongside a cultivated field. Follow this farm track for about 700m. At the junction after a slightly steep descent, take the path on the left (forest gate) which winds around three hairpin bends.
After another forest gate and the final hairpin bend on the right, continue for about 700m to the Mas d’Azema. Pass between the house on the right and the pig farm on the left. Continue for 800m along the tarmac road to the entrance of the Cayla estate. Continue straight on for 700m to reach the D10 at two old cisterns perched above the road.
(9) Take the D10 on the left, leaving the Domaine de Cazelles on your right. Continue for about 2000m on the D10, ignoring all other roads on either side.
(10) Opposite the slope leading up to the church on the left, leave the D10 and turn right. Join the Roman road which slopes to the left (pass the entrance to the cemetery on the right). Walk down to the old bridge on the right and then back up until you reach Rue de l’Église, which you should follow to the right for a few metres. Cross Rue de l’Église, then take Chemin Grand opposite and slightly to the left; leave this after 100m to take Rue des Jardins on the right.
(11) After 50m along this path, a small passage on the left leads to the Maroger housing estate, which you cross. Turn left onto Rue Jean Maroger to reach Chemin des Zizines.
(1) Turn right and after 200m, turn right onto the Chemin des Rainettes, which leads downhill back to the lake car park (S/E).
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