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(S/E) From the car park at Mazures Abbey, take the time to visit the chapel and the spring that cures children with rickets (the only remains of the 13th-century abbey).
Head right towards the woods, where you will see several signs pointing to the Dames de Meuse viewpoint, as well as green painted arrows.
Cross the Route Forestière de la Plaine aux Cochons and continue straight ahead along the path.
(1) Turn right. You will come to a footbridge that allows you to cross the fence. The owner of the wild boar park allows hikers to cross his property.
Walk along the right-hand side of the fence for about 800 metres.
(2) Turn left at the second large driveway; a sign indicates the direction to follow. Pass under a power line and continue straight ahead.
(3) At a large crossroads, turn left for about 20 metres, then follow the path on the right that leads to the Dames de Meuse viewpoint (about 700 metres). Just before the viewpoint, there is another footbridge that allows you to cross over the fence.
(4) Enjoy the view, 230 metres above the Meuse valley and the village of Laifour.
Retrace your steps, cross the footbridge again and follow the fence on the left. After 1 km, it turns at a right angle, then another footbridge appears. Cross it.
(5) Directional signs point to Laifour on the left.
Take the path that descends steeply at the bottom of the slope and enter Laifour.
(6) Cross the D1 and continue straight ahead. At the next crossroads, turn left, then right and join the railway bridge.
(7) There is a footbridge next to it, allowing you to cross the Meuse (nice view of the Meuse, this time from the bottom of the hill!).
At the end of the bridge, go down the greenway and continue the walk on the left. Pass under the D1 bridge.
(8) Continue along the Meuse, past the dam keeper's houses.
(9) About 400 m after the last house, climb a small path marked Sentier des Crêtes.
(10) Cross the D1 and climb up opposite along a fence via a path called Sentier des Crêtes. This path is very steep.
(11) At the first crossroads, take a wide path on the left that descends towards the D1.
Before reaching it, continue to the right through the undergrowth (the path no longer exists) and walk along the D1 for about 500 m. On the other side of the road, you will see a fence along the edge of the road; stay in the undergrowth.
(12) Cross the D1 at the end of this fence. Go down the path on the right, join the railway line and follow it.
(13) Cross the footbridge to reach the greenway (former towpath) on the right.
(14) Continue along the greenway on the right until you reach the Anchamps bridge. Just before the bridge, turn right onto the D1 and the bridge.
(15) Cross the Meuse River on the bridge and continue left on the D1B to Anchamps.
(16) At the first large crossroads, turn right onto the road that passes over the railway line and leads to the cemetery. Follow the cemetery and continue straight ahead uphill. The path climbs between low walls topped with trees.
(17) It leads to another footbridge that takes you back into the wild boar park. Go down to the right along the fence, then take the gas line on the left (marked by numbered yellow signs) from number 93 to number 88.
(18) At number 88, turn left onto a wide stony path that runs along the edge of the Dames de Meuse rocks. Gaps in the Ardennes forest allow you to admire them. The path enters the woods again and turns at a right angle.
(19) Join the gas line and follow it again, on the left, from number 80 to 76. Turn left onto the forest road.
(20) Turn right at the first large crossroads. An oak tree marked with the number XIII in red and gas marker 73 serve as landmarks.
Continue along the wide path to the fence, turn right and you will immediately reach the first footbridge of the day.
(1) Cross it and return by the same route as on the way there.
When you reach the Route Forestière de la Plaine aux Cochons again, take it on the right and turn left at the second path. At the end of the path, continue 20 metres to the left and then immediately continue to the right on the path that leads to the abbey car park (S/E).
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