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At Campagnac, leave the D15 towards Vaour and turn right into a small shaded square. Pass the town hall and park in the car park just after it, which has space for four or five vehicles.
The hike is almost entirely unmarked
(S) Retrace your steps to return to the D15, turn right and follow the hard shoulder to the sign marking the end of the village. A few metres further on, turn right onto a small, quiet road that runs alongside the cemetery and quickly leads to a place called Beaudinenq.
(1) At the T-junction, turn left slightly uphill, then leave the road and turn right onto a wide farm track. Turn right at the next fork and continue to the bottom of the valley, enjoying the view of the beautiful vineyards on your right. Cross the small bridge over a stream that is mostly dry.
(2) At the next junction, turn right, then left, continuing uphill at the two closely followed junctions. The track climbs steeply to a T-junction at an elevation of 324 metres.
Turn left at a 90° angle onto this other path, which heads north-west and follows a gentle ridge. Don't forget to look to your right when the view opens up to see the beautiful village of Cordes-sur-Ciel in the distance. Leave a path on your right and, shortly after an area cluttered with car wrecks that look out of place here, you will come to a small paved road.
(3) Turn left and, after about 100 metres, leave this road and take a small shortcut on the right which soon leads to a crossroads. Take the road on the right. This road passes two houses, branches off to the left and gives way to a wide, well-maintained dirt track.
(4) At the intersection, turn right and then left 50 metres further on, leaving the access road to the private property of Sigalou slightly to your right. Turn right at the next fork and continue to an intersection when you almost reach the bottom of the valley.
(5) Turn right, follow a meadow on your left and cross another dry stream. Immediately after, the road turns right and climbs gently up the hillside. Turn right at the first intersection and continue to a four-way intersection.
(6) Turn onto the first path on the right and continue almost flat until the next intersection.
Then take the right-hand path, which leads to a fork.
(7) Turn left and do the same a few metres further on. Follow a large meadow on your left, enter a small wood and, very quickly, take a hairpin bend to the right onto a path that descends into a shady valley and joins a tarmac road.
(8) Take this road on the left, turn right at the first fork and continue uphill to the village of Itzac, leaving a wide path on your left. In the village, turn left down a slight slope, then left again to descend to the D8, which you will reach at an old restored wash house.
(9) Turn right onto this busy road (take care) and follow it for about 150 metres. Take the first small road on the right, then turn left immediately after to come to a T-junction between two buildings. Cross the road and take the wide track opposite, which is initially tarmac but then becomes dirt.
After crossing a small bridge, the road turns right and then left and climbs up the hillside through the vineyards.
(10) Cross the small road that leads to the hamlet of Beaudinenq, which you saw on the way there, and continue towards Campagnac.
(11) When you reach the outskirts of the village, leave the wide road and take a smaller one that branches off to the right (not shown on the IGN map) and leads directly to a building, which you should walk along on the left to reach the car park where you started.
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