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Car park by the Étang de Jonas, plenty of spaces.
(S/E) Follow the lake along the road on the left as you face the lake.
(1) At the fork in the road, leave theGRP®® (yellow and red markings) on your left and continue along the path on your right alongside the lake.
(2) After about 300 m, pass the bridge on your right and rejoin the path on the left to get back onto theGRP®®. Continue for 200 m north-east until you reach a Fork in the road.
(3) Turn right onto theGRP®®, which climbs gently towards Bourdaleine, and carry on until you reach a road.
(4) Take the road to the left, then at the next junction turn right, where you’ll once again follow the Yellow-marked route which passes between the houses in the hamlet of Larmont.
(5) After the sharp bend and before the hamlet of Chez Puyaud, turn onto the steeply ascending path on the left, marked in yellow and red (GRP®® Monts d’Ambazac). Continue to the charming stone houses of the hamlet of Les Barrys.
(6) Turn onto the lower road on the left, which climbs slightly ahead, running alongside the ruins of the former Grandmont Abbey. The information boards are well worth a read, and you can imagine the immense abbey that once stood in this pretty, secluded valley on the edge of the pond.
(7) Just before you reach the village centre, you’ll see the Saint-Jean-Baptiste chapel behind you. At the crossroads where four roads meet, take the road on the left that leads downhill (D78) and keep to the left. This is the signposted route: the Chemin des Moines, marked in yellow.
(8) After walking alongside the small pond, turn right towards the house in the middle of the meadow. The path runs between the house and the wooden terrace and continues into the forest. Follow this pleasant path through the woods on the slope of Puy Fourmiget until you reach the road.
(9) Turn right onto the road, ignoring the signposted path branching off to the left, and continue along the road for about 600 m.
(10) Before the road begins to climb slightly, take the forest track that climbs diagonally up through the woods (not the one on the left) to the village of Saint-Sylvestre.
(11) At the entrance, turn left onto the road leading up to the sports ground at the top of the hill. Keep heading to the right, ignoring the road leading to the cemetery.
(12) After the stadium, where the road ends, continue along the path that winds gently uphill through the forest until you reach a junction with a road.
(13) When you reach this road, continue downhill to the village of La Chaise; follow the road as it skirts the hamlet and descends to a Y-junction with another road. Keep right and, after the bend, you’ll come to a main road beneath the forest canopy.
(14) After about 100 m, turn onto the dirt track to the left of the road, which leads back to the signposted path running alongside the Étang de Jonas (which is now on your left).
(15) At the tarmac road, turn left between the pond and the sewage treatment plant, walk past the houses to return to the Étang de Jonas car park (S/E).
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