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Park in the free car park in the town centre, 12 Avenue Louis Pasteur (see link in "practical information"). Follow the yellow markings throughout the route.
(S/E) Cross Avenue Louis Pasteur and follow Chemin de la Font du Pape until you reach a small bridge. Cross the bridge and follow the dirt track alongside the vineyard until you reach a crossroads.
(1) Turn right at the water reservoir and continue along the path that climbs into the woods. Then, at an intersection, continue straight ahead along a vineyard. Turn left and follow a cypress hedge until you reach a crossroads.
(2) Turn left onto the path that descends. Then turn right at the tarmac road (Chemin de Coste Froide). Follow this path, ignore the first path on the left as you climb, and continue to the second path on the left, at a flat section (before the cypress tree).
(3) Turn left and follow the dirt track. At the old oak tree, continue straight ahead on the path that goes uphill. Ignore the path that turns left between the vineyards (at the two oak trees) and take the path that goes up the embankment to reach a patch of rounded pebbles. Turn right, walk along the patch and you will reach a tarmac road. Turn left and follow it for 50 metres.
(4) At this crossroads, there are two options:
- Shorten the hike by turning left onto the dirt track and continuing the route at point (10).
Complete the second circular loop as marked and described. Take the path that climbs to the right. Continue along it until you reach a cypress hedge. Turn left immediately after the hedge. Keep the hedge on your left and the vineyard plot on your right. Continue along it until you reach the path that descends steeply to the left.
(5) Turn left to follow this path. Continue straight downhill until you reach the tarmac road, which you should follow until you reach a path that starts on the left.
(6) Take this path and continue until you reach a tarmac road. Turn right onto this road which descends (on the left are some old stone quarries). Continue downhill until you reach the first fork on the left onto a small path.
(7) Take this path and pass under a large concave rock. Continue down the path, taking care with the slope and mountain bikes. Keep to the right on the various paths that branch off on either side until you reach the path that leads to the salt pond below.
(8) Turn left and cross the path. Climb the hill to reach the vineyard opposite. Continue to the left. Cut through the reeds and continue to the left, keeping the vineyard on your right. Continue to the tarmac road to Châteauneuf (be careful, the road is very busy). Follow the road for a few metres then turn left onto the path that climbs between two vineyards. Continue climbing, following the terraced vineyards on your left. Turn right to reach the path that leads to the vineyards with rounded pebbles.
(9) Join the dirt track behind the copse of trees and turn right, keeping the hedge of trees on your right. Pass the ruins of an old building on your right. Follow the path to the tarmac road. Turn right onto the road and then immediately left onto a dirt track. At the olive tree, leave the main dirt track and continue straight on towards the forest. You will arrive at the starting point of the second circular route.
(4) Cross the road and follow a path on the right that initially runs parallel to the road but then veers off to the left.
(10) At the intersection at the top of the hill, take the left-hand path and walk alongside a vineyard. Ignore the path on the right and take the next one after the wide left-hand bend (Bois Sénéchaux).
(11) Turn right onto the path that descends into a wood, then left at the hairpin bend. At the edge of the wood, turn right at the vineyard and take the path on the left that passes between two plots. At the bottom of the slope, turn right, then quickly left, and join a cross-country track (Chemin de Montalivet).
(12) Turn right, take a left turn, then a right turn. At the end of this second turn, continue left on a dirt track between the vineyards. Reach a tarmac road and follow it to the right. Return to the water reservoir and the crossroads from the outward journey.
(1) Return to the car park in the town centre by retracing your steps (S/E).
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