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If you’re coming from Toulon via the main road, at the entrance to Carqueiranne, you’ll first come to a roundabout. There, don’t head towards the town centre but carry on towards Hyères. After passing under a bridge, you’ll come to another roundabout, where you turn left at a right angle (the third exit, as the sat-nav would say).
If, on the other hand, you are coming from Hyères, after passing the Casino supermarket, you will come to the same roundabout, where you turn right at a right angle (the first exit, as the sat-nav would say).
Drive straight up and when you see the church on the left, turn right to park opposite the cemetery, in front of Parc Saint-Vincent, under the tall umbrella pines.
(S/E) Continue on foot eastwards along the road named “Chemin du Petit Lac”. Follow it until you reach a gate at the entrance to a dirt track. Continue along this track towards the small lake.
(1) When you reach the lake, take the path on the right that runs along the embankment of the dyke. At the end of the dyke, cross the stream (usually dry) which serves as the lake’s outlet and take the path on the left that runs along the lake’s left bank. Walk to the far end of the lake, where you cross the valley following a path that leads to the right bank of the lake; follow this bank until you reach the dam.
You cross back over the dyke, cross the stream again, but this time continue straight ahead to find a forest track.
(2) Take this forest track to the right, heading south-east. You’ll start off entirely in the forest, then walk alongside fields and finally the Valérane housing estate. Stay on the track until you pass some tennis courts.
(3) Just after these, take a path that climbs to the left and will soon bring you close to housing estates on your right.
(4) About 250 m after taking this path, you’ll find another path which you take in a hairpin bend to the left, giving the impression of retracing your steps slightly, overlooking the track. You’ll first pass a path which you ignore and, after roughly the same distance, you’ll find a cross-path.
(5) Take this path on the right for just under 200 m.
(6) Take the path climbing to the left, which starts off quite steeply before levelling out as it passes the Sabatière reservoirs, where it turns into a forest track. Continue until you reach a gate where the path joins a tarmac road.
(7) A few dozen metres past the barrier, on the left, take the faintly marked path that climbs through the heath, running parallel to the road that winds its way up alongside the houses.
This brings you to the summit of Mont des Oiseaux, where there is a reservoir. Take the forest track that descends to the left towards the north-west. This track soon joins another coming from the right, before passing a cistern. After this cistern, do not take the track branching off to the right but continue straight on the same track, which takes you past a waste disposal site, before emerging at the Col du Serre.
(8) Turn left onto Route du Vallon, which you follow straight down until you pass some quarries on the right, now occupied by detached houses. Continue along this road, which crosses the Martine district to a roundabout with an olive tree.
(9) Turn left and go down the street, which soon runs alongside the cemetery, then the church. After admiring, or even visiting, the church, head back towards the cemetery, turn right and you’ll find the car park (S/E).
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