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Park in the car park of the Maison Forestière Saint-Louis, Impasse Saint-Louis in Pujaudran.
(S/E) With your back to the car park, head towards the central lane and turn left. This section follows the GR®653 marked in red and white and the Way of St James marked with scallop shells. After a right-hand bend, you will soon reach a Y-shaped fork.
(1) There is a sign on the right for the historic trail and opposite for the Way of St James and the GTP marked in black on a blue background.
Go straight ahead and follow the signs for the GR® and GTP and the scallop shells, staying on this wide path and ignoring the trail that branches off to the right.
(2) You will come to a crossroads with four paths. Continue straight ahead, still on the GR®.
At the edge of the forest, there is a clearing with an unobstructed view of Pujaudran and the start of a carriageway that is not paved. Continue along this lane until you find a path branching off to the left.
(3) Leave the GR® and the Saint-Jacques path and turn left to follow the GTP along the Chemin de la Rose.
The path winds through the woods, descends and then climbs to reach a slight incline after a left-hand bend. The path then enters a sort of clearing and runs alongside the Mérenvielle road before coming out onto a tarmac road, the Chemin de l'Autan.
Turn left onto the road and continue until you come to a dirt track on the right shortly afterwards.
(4) Turn right onto the dirt track with the double GTP and Chemin de Saint-Jacques markings, as we have now joined the historic path, which mainly follows the road.
At the end, the dirt track leads to Allée des Mûriers.
Take it downhill to the left and when it ends, continue straight ahead on the path until you reach the cemetery.
(5) Turn left at the end of the houses and before the field; the path leads to the Ruisseau de Saint-Blaise. The path follows the stream on the right bank and after about 500 metres, it crosses it to continue on the other bank until it meets Chemin de Cardayré, after crossing a small wooden footbridge over a stream and an anti-cycle barrier.
(6) Turn left and go up the road to the crossroads with Chemin de l'Autan. Cross the road carefully and take the path opposite that runs alongside a stream.
The path crosses over the stream and runs alongside it.
(7) Take the path that climbs up to the right towards the forest, following the hedge where a stream flows. After skirting the edge of the forest, the path enters the forest, bends to the right and, after a short steep climb, joins the Chemin de Saint-Jacques and theGR® 386 at the crossroads you crossed earlier.
(2) At the crossroads, follow lane No. 43 straight ahead and continue to the junction with side lane No. 40, where the trees bear the numbers 96 and 97 corresponding to the plot numbers.
Then turn right into the side lane and go downhill until just before the Y-junction ((1)) with the Saint-Jacques trail.
(8) Turn left at a 90° angle into the lane parallel to the central road and continue until you reach side lane No. 38.
(9) Turn right at a 90° angle into the side lane, cross the main road and arrive at the departure car park (S/E) on the right.
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