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Park in the centre of Saint-Marc-à-Loubaud.
Yellow markings
(S/E) Take the D59 (westbound) towards Lavaud Gelade and Cessinas for approximately 500m.
(1) Take the first small road on the left towards the hamlet of Cessinas. Drive through the hamlet and continue along the road.
(2) Pass the path on your left (which you will take later) and continue to the second junction where a sign reads “Dead end, this road does not lead to the lake”.
(3) Follow this dead-end road to the right, towards Lapléoux. Ignore the turn-off to Neypoux on the left and continue to Lapléoux.
(4) Just after the first house on the left with blue shutters and a yellow door, turn left. The small road turns into a track. Continue along this track to the lake (small beach, swimming possible in season).
(5) Turn around and head back along the small road you came along.
End of yellow markings
(3) Ignore the hamlet of Neypoux on the right. Do not follow the yellow markings any further! Return to the road towards Cessinas for about three hundred metres.
(2) Just after a left-hand bend, turn onto the first path on the right (there is a small granite cross that you’ll only notice if you look for it!). Follow the path across meadows and then through a small wood, straight ahead, until you reach the D16 road.
(6) Take the D16 to the right for 800m. The road is straight.
(7) At the first slight bend, keep right onto a path that bypasses the road. It leads back onto the D16; cross the road, continue for another 100m and turn left to reach the listed site of the small Roman bridge at Senoueix.
(8) Continue eastwards along the path that more or less follows the Thaurion. This path makes several right-angled bends. It crosses peat bog meadows.
(9) Cross two Canadian crossings (a sort of metal roller bridge). The grassy path climbs back up towards the forest. The path often stays at the edge of the forest. There is only this wide path, so it is impossible to go wrong.
(10) At the first junction, turn right at the pond (which you cannot see; ‘private property’ sign).
(11) At the crossroads, turn left. Head into the forest and go straight on. Ignore the paths on the left. Contrary to what is shown on the map, this is not a road, but a path that may have been tarmacked in the past.
(12) Continue slightly to the right.
(13) At the T-junction, take the right-hand track. The path crosses a recently planted forest of conifers and birches. You will see a yellow-orange marker (a single mark). The path leads onto the D59.
(14) Take the D59 to the left to reach Saint Marc-à-Loubaud (S/E).
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