Country:
District:
Park next to the church in La Motte-Fanjas. There are a few spaces near the war memorial.
Yellow and green markings.
(S/E) From the village, leave with your back to the church via Rue l'Orée du Village, heading towards La Fayolle for 1.2 km. You will soon find a grassy path on the right in a left-hand bend in the road. Cross the Ruisseau des Alloverts stream and join a bend in the Route de Saint-Nazaire.
Follow it to the right as it climbs. Pass under a power line and you will come to a fork. Leave Les Robins on your left and continue to the right until you reach the entrance to Chemin de La Fayolle.
(2) Turn left towards La Boutouse 1.1 km. Shortly afterwards, leave Chemin de La Fayole on your right, continue left towards the south and reach the fork in question.
(3) Follow the road to the right towards Les Bois-Savoyards for 3.8 km. After 200 m, turn right and pass between the buildings of the Massots farm. The road descends, veers slightly to the left and becomes a track in the woods. Join the D209, which is quite busy, so take care. Follow it to the left for 350 m until you reach the Merles farm.
(4) Turn right onto the track that climbs into the forest. Keep left at the fork, then go straight ahead at the crossroads. Continue climbing until you reach a road. Follow it to the right, climbing uphill, cross the hamlet, leave Impasse de Pierrefeu on your right and reach a crossroads at the Les Bois-Savoyards signpost.
(5) Take the track on the right for about 150 metres. At the bend in the track, climb up the path opposite to the Les Côtes signpost.
(6) Turn left towards Le Château (0.7 km). Climb up the path to a cliff and turn left to descend to the castle ruins. The castle is only visible at the last moment.
(7) Continue to the right towards Rochechinard, along a wide path heading south. After joining another path, it turns left and leads to a track (Les Cartelats signpost).
(8) Follow it to the left and descend for about 1.4 km. Enjoy the beautiful view of the chapel and castle until you reach a road at a car park. This is the car park for the Rochechinard House Museum.
(9) Then follow the small road on the right towards Les Pègues for 0.4 km. Cross this hamlet, then follow the signs for Les Niquets for 1.6 km. At the exit of the hamlet, the oratory is on your left. A little further on, do not go towards the house but take a path on the right that goes around it and runs along its right-hand side. You will arrive at the hamlet of Les Gérys.
(10) Continue right on a small road. At the Les Niquets signpost, ignore the dead end on the right, continue left and cross the hamlet straight ahead towards Les Chaumates until you reach a right-hand bend under a high-voltage power line.
(11) Descend opposite via a path that crosses a grassy field to a new road. Cross it and climb opposite towards Les Chaumates. You will reach a multi-way road junction.
(12) At the Les Chaumates sign, take the road on the right for about 100 metres. Please note: from this point onwards, the path is no longer marked. Leave the Chemin des Rapaillons (marked) which starts opposite and take the road (unmarked) on the left (D253). Follow it, cross the next crossroads, and at the next one, leave the Chemin des Sapins. You will find the markings again at the next crossroads.
(13). Take the road on the left (yellow-green markings), pass a dead end on the right, then a crossroads, and arrive at a three-way junction with a cross.
(14) Turn left onto Montée des Hauvets, which will take you back to the town hall and church of Motte-Fanjas (S/E).
Perfect, lovely walk
Does GEGE07sarras's review refer to this hike?
Visorando member
Tourism professional
