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Coming from La Londe-les-Maures on the D88, continue a little past the entrance to the road leading to the village of Notre-Dame des Maures and park on the side of the road where there are parking spaces for several cars on a verge bordering a plot of land where several villas have been demolished (situation in 2018).
(S/E) From the car park, walk towards La Londe, leaving the road into the village on your left and continuing along the main road.
(1) 250 m further on, turn left onto the dirt track that climbs uphill, heading first towards the village, then turning right and crossing the vineyards. At the first three-way junction, keep right, pass in front of a house and continue on this Piste de Notre-Dame des Maures, with the Signal de Favanquet soon coming into view.
(2) At the crossroads at the foot of the hill, turn right towards "Liaison vers circuit 2 - Le Rouay de la Cabre" with a blue sign on a rough wooden panel. You will then go around the hill on the right.
(3) At the crossroads where you will find a square cement impluvium, turn left to continue around the hill. After a hairpin bend to the left and a short climb, you will arrive at a flat area where you will join another track. Cross the track to pass between the green cistern on the right and the sign for the dolmen on a standing stone on the left. Take the path that climbs towards the dolmen (well signposted).
(4) After crossing the dolmen site, you will find a path that descends into the scrubland. Take it and you will soon come to a dirt track that heads north to join a track.
(5) You will arrive at a small steep section of the track, which you take to the left (towards "Circuit 1 Gaoutabry" on a rough wooden sign with a blue marker). It is soon joined by another track coming from the left. Continue straight ahead on this track, which overlooks and bypasses the Gaoutabry estate on the right, visible in the hollow on the left. After following a semi-circle to the left, you will arrive at a five-way junction between forest tracks (ONF barrier).
(6) Continue straight ahead (west), stay on the track and leave a hillock on your left.
(7) At the hairpin bend to the left, stay on the track on the left, which continues more horizontally and returns due south, turning right after crossing a valley.
(8) Ignore a track coming from above on the left, turn right and continue downhill following the track. Ignore a track coming from the right, then make a hairpin turn to the left. Continue downhill until you soon come to vineyards on your right.
(9) After crossing vineyards well protected from wild boars by strong wire fences, turn right at the crossroads to pass in front of a farm building where sections of cork oak bark are stored: this is the warehouse of a "leveur" (a person who harvests cork).
Next, follow and then cross a small stream and pass through the village of Notre-Dame-des-Maures. Continue to the main road. Once on the main road, turn right to return to the car park (S/E).
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