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From Six-Fours, head to the Courrens cemetery. There are two options:
1/ Coming from the town centre, take Boulevard Laennec and turn left towards the Courrens Cemetery. First take Chemin de Cambaud, then (third right) Rue de Talian, continuing along which you take Chemin de Malfosset, then Chemin de la Forêt, on the left of which you will soon find the cemetery and its large car park.
2/ Coming from Le Brusc, head towards Notre-Dame du Mai (Forêt de Janas), turn left towards the waste collection centre, then immediately left onto Chemin de la Forêt, which leads to the cemetery less than a kilometre away.
Park in the large car park, which has plenty of spaces and can easily accommodate a large group of vehicles.
(S/E) Head south on Chemin de Courrens, which is paved but often quite narrow and lined with very high embankments of alluvial deposits from the Cap Sicié massif. It is actually a sunken lane with little traffic, but you will need to squeeze to the side if you encounter a car.
(1) At the three-way junction, turn left onto Chemin de Roumagnan, which is even narrower and deeper between its high embankments, and quickly becomes unpaved. Soon you will see the Roumagnan forest track above on the left, which you will follow and join further on.
(2) Leave the wide path for a narrower path that branches off diagonally to the right and winds its way up and down, moving away from the forest track before rejoining it. Follow it for about 20 metres to the right until you reach a bend, on the left of which is a circular concrete basin that collects rainwater and serves as a drinking trough for animals.
(3) Take the path that climbs to the left towards the east and follows a small valley on the left bank. This path, which is initially fairly earthy and comfortable, then cuts across the valley in a left-hand bend and becomes very rocky. It climbs northwards, becoming a beautiful balcony path, sometimes earthy, sometimes rocky, which cuts across several thalwegs and offers beautiful views of the bay of Six-Fours and Sanary and the Îles des Embiez.
Continue north on this beautiful path, ignoring several other paths on the left that descend towards the forest track. After passing a fenced cistern at the highest point, the path gives way to a track that descends northwards.
(4) Leave a track on your left that joins the Roumagnan track further down, and take the one to the north-east that descends gently towards Francillon.
(5) When you reach a crossroads with several fairly wide tracks, continue north and cross the Francillon car park, which is bordered by barriers. Take the paved Chemin des Conques, which first passes in front of a stud farm (on the left), and follow it to the crossroads where it crosses the Rayolet stream. There, continue straight ahead up Rue de Mirondin, which passes in front of a large campsite, runs alongside tennis courts, then crosses the Bouchou stream and reaches the hamlet of La Sardine.
(6) Turn right onto Traverse de Jouglas to take a stroll through this old neighbourhood, then return via Chemin de Jouglas. Join Chemin de Vidal, which leads to Chemin de la Forêt. Turn left onto Chemin de la Forêt and continue to the old neighbourhood of Talian.
(7) Leave Chemin de la Forêt on your left, which descends along a very high dry stone wall, and turn right onto Rue de Talian, which crosses a beautiful old neighbourhood of the same name . Like La Sardine, which you passed through earlier, this is one of the ancient villages that once made up the commune of Six-Fours.
(8) Turn left onto Chemin de Malfossé, which runs alongside the Roumagnan stream in an extraordinarily green and cool valley, then further on join Chemin de la Forêt.
Follow it straight ahead to the Courrens cemetery (S/E).
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