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Departure from the car park of the multipurpose hall next to the tennis court (signposted when entering the village by car via the RD903).
(S/E) Walk along the tennis court and take the stairs leading to the pretty wash house. Go through the porch behind the wash house to reach Rue de la Placette. Turn right onto this street towards the village centre until you reach the imposing Château de Cipières.
Turn left, go through the archway, walk down a few metres and turn right to reach marker 25.
Continue straight ahead on this small road towards Le Foulon until you reach the bend that goes back up into the village at marker 24.
(1) At marker 24, go down the stairs on the left, still heading towards Le Foulon. The path will be marked in yellow until you reach Le Loup.
After about 100 metres of descent, you will reach the RD603 at a bend. Do not take the road but stay on the left and descend following the markings to marker 23. At this marker, turn right onto the path that crosses the meadows and joins the RD603 at marker 22.
(2) From this marker, go down the road for about 50 metres on the left until you reach another marker numbered 22 and take the path that goes down to the right through the woods.
The descent along this path quickly leads to Le Loup. Be careful, as the end is stony and a little slippery. You will arrive at a bridge, downstream from the Foulon aqueduct catchment, near a fish farm selling organic trout... or you can fish in a small pond!
(3) Cross the bridge, go around the trout ponds and follow them to reach a path that enters the forest. You are walking on the Foulon aqueduct! The path turns right and crosses the Loup on a double footbridge, one narrow one that you should not take and a wider one corresponding to the pipeline.
Be careful, there is only a handrail on one side!
Continue to follow the course of the river, walking along the aqueduct. You are just a few metres from the river, but it is not accessible, or only with difficulty. Continue to a second footbridge of the same type. It is possible to access the river in this area, but the water is not deep enough for swimming.
(4) Retrace your steps a few metres and continue along the path that climbs left into the woods. After about a hundred metres, you will reach marker 167. Turn right towards Cipières via theGR®51(white and red markings).
The climb is steep under the white oaks and other beech trees in the middle of old terraces. But you're in the shade! At the edge of the forest, you will reach a small plateau consisting of meadows, clapas (stone walls) and other piles of stones. Nice view of the Cheiron massif. Very hot in summer!
Continue along this path until you reach a small road at a lodge at marker 21.
(5) Follow the road on the left towards the village until you reach marker 20 on the edge of the RD603.
(6) Follow the RD603 on the right for about a hundred metres, then take the stairs on the left that pass by the school and lead directly to the village square.
At the water fountain, turn left towards the multi-purpose hall car park to return to the starting point (S/E).
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