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Park in the car park on the banks of the Tarn on the Chemin de la Plage, under the plane trees.
(S/E) Head towards the Auberge des Avalats via the Allée de la Nougarède. Continue to the Chemin du Port crossroads.
(1) Turn right towards the church via Chemin du Port.
Cross the D172 with caution, climb up towards the old village (keep) and reach theGR®36at the crossroads, which you should follow up onto the plateau towards Le Truel.
(2) Leave theGR®36on your left, cross the Conté farm and the D77 (caution). Continue straight ahead to reach Cabrillac.
(3) Cross Cabrillac and continue along the small road. At the crossroads, turn right and then immediately left towards Pontésiè, a suburb of Cunac.
(4) On the road, turn left and then left again at the corner of a house onto a grassy path: thePR® Sentier des deux Vallons. Follow this path to Autanet.
(5) Turn left onto the road to Saurat.
(6) Turn left onto a rural road to join theGR®36, follow it to the left until you reach the D77.
Take this road to the right for about 300 m. Caution: very busy road, continue to a metal barrier at the edge of a vineyard.
(7) Walk along the vineyard towards the waste collection centre and enter the woods on a track halfway down the hill (the entrance to the path is not very visible). Follow this path to a vineyard at the edge of the woods.
(8) Go around the vineyard on the left on three sides, then return to the edge of the woods on the left.
(9) Re-enter the woods via a wide track and follow it to the exit, where it becomes a small tarmac road.
(10) At the crossroads, turn left onto the road: rejoin theGR®36, continue to the right along a grassy path leading up through the fields. At the crossroads (country cross), turn left onto the road.
(11) Leave theGR®36opposite and continue to the right. Cross the Sirventié.
(12) On the descent, at the edge of the woods, take the path on the left that goes downhill (the entrance to the path is not very visible). Follow this path until you reach a junction with theGR®36: follow it to the right downhill. Continue on the path, turning left at each junction, including theGR®36which descends to Marsal below.
(13) When you reach a clearing, go up to the left along a rural path that leads to the Puech Mergou farm.
(14) Follow the small road to the left to La Brandié and turn right. Cross the hamlet of Le Tour and continue towards Le Bez.
(15) Continue along a grassy path that descends and then turns into a forest track to the Tarn.
(16) Cross the D172 via a pedestrian tunnel. Follow the path between the river and the road along the retaining wall.
(17) The path along the river ends: cross the D172 and, after a short return to the left, take a good path in the woods parallel to the road that leads to the Avalats water sports centre.
Cross the D172 and follow the edge of the Tarn to the initial crossroads.
(1) Continue along the same route as on the way out to return to the car park by the Tarn (S/E).
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