Rando walk
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For hundreds of years, these tracks have been used by pilgrims and walkers. Following these footpaths which are steeped in history and visit so many different places, you will be captivated by both the variety and interest of the countryside you pass through. This long-distance walk may be the world’s oldest, following as it does the Roman road known as the “Via Agrippa” which linked Lyon and Toulouse.
Travel diary
Day 1 CAHORS
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Reception for the walking tour takes place at the first hotel, the evening before your first day’s walking.
Car : Cahors is in the Lot - Michelin Map N°79 - There is the possibility of leaving your vehicle in a secure car park for 4 euros a night? You must make a reservation at the hotel if you wish to leave your car. Visit the city website to find all parking solution (Place Gambetta, Place Emilien Imbert, "Amphitheatre" car park).
Train : Cahors railway station (gare SNCF de Cahors service: Paris / Toulouse via Brive).
Your walking tour ends the morning after your last day’s walking, after breakfast.
Car :
Bus between Lectoure and Agen (details from l’Office de Tourisme de Lectoure) then train from Agen to Cahors with a change at Montauban.
It is essential to reserve this transportation as early as possible. We advise you to do it as soon as you book in for the holiday or when we confirm your booking, because there is a high demand and very few places.
Train : railway station at Agen or Auch (gare SNCF d'Agen ou d’Auch).
There is an SNCF coach service between Lectoure and Agen and between Lectoure and Auch.
Further details from the tourist office (l’Office de Tourisme) in Lectoure: +33 5 62 68 76 98.
Informations SNCF (train information): 36 35 or www.sncf.fr
Medium
From 50 – 150 metres of uphill each day.
Hotel * / **n and guest houses. Showers and WCs may be on landings or on the next floor in certain establishments.
NB: Bedrooms will only be available after 4pm.
When two hotels are full, we will have to arrange for you to pass two nights at the same establishment and organise a luggage transfer. (This will not change the route of your day’s walk.) Details of this kind will be noted on your booking confirmation, should they be necessary. You may be asked to pay a supplement.
INFORMATION :
"Bed bug", have reappeared in some accommodations located on hiking trails, in the mountains and seaside.
These bugs bite like mosquitoes, during sleep and in some cases can cause allergies. To prevent these bites, an association has chosen an insecticide that respects the environment and health with a formula based on natural pyrethrum and aromatic oils, 100% natural and labeled Eco-Cert. We therefore advise you to protect your luggage from the beginning of the trip with a spray.
This spray is to be vaporized essentially on the inside and outside of the luggage.
FOOD
Breakfasts will be traditional (often taking the form of buffets) and are served at around 8am.
Dinner is usually served from 7.30pm onwards. It usually consists of the meal of the day. Most hotels do not offer a choice of menu unless you pay a supplement.
MIDDAY MEAL
Packed lunches are not included in our prices.
You can order them directly from the hotel the night before (by paying around 8 or 10€ for each person; caution : it depending on the establishment.
– Alternatively you can buy food in the villages, where there are shops etc.
-Cahors : all services
-La Bastide Marnhac : restaurant
-Montcuq : all services (but closed on Mondays outside the season)
-Lauzerte : all services
-Aube Nouvelle : restaurant
-Durfort-Lacapelette: refreshments/shop
There is no chance of buying more provisions or getting food before Moissac. Also, make sure you have enough water.
-Moissac : all services
-Malause : shop, café, restaurant
-Auvillar : restaurant, butchery, baker closed on Mondays. Drinking fountain by the covered market. No cash point.
-Bardigues: restaurant
There is no chance of eating or buying food at St Antoine. Buy anything you need at Auvillar
-Miradoux : restaurant, shop
-Lectoure : all services
Your baggage will be transported by Transport Claudine between each of the places where you spend the night. This will be done at the end of the afternoon (around 6pm)
(Tél : 05 62 28 67 92 or 06 74 91 90 65)
A supplement may be payable for the transportation of baggage after October.
NB: We ask you to put your bags in the hallway/lounge of each hotel every morning at 8am. We also insist that each person has only one bag of belongings for transportation, and that no bag must weigh more than 15 kilos. If you have more than one bag, or if your bag weighs more than 15kg, the transporter can either demand a supplement at the end of the walking tour, or simply refuse to carry your baggage if it is too cumbersome. You are advised not to take ordinary suitcases, but to use a strong, solidly-made travelling bag.
You have to take a small day-sack or rucksack to carry your personal belongings during the day’s walk.
If you are part of a group, we require you to show clearly on your luggage labels the name of your group leader (i.e. the person who booked your walking tour).
CONTACT DETAILS OF TAXIS :
You can contact some taxis OCCASIONLLY to shorten some of the steps that are too long:
*MONTAT'XI taxi in Cahors: 06 76 60 08 84 or 05 65 20 00 03
*Taxi LORETTE in Lauzerte: 05 63 94 77 00 or 05 63 94 65 66
*Société Moissageaise de Transports in Moissac: 05 63 04 92 30 (Moissac/Agen, Montauban/Moissac routes).
* Taxis Landes in Moissac: 06 32 16 49 19
* Les Courriers de la Garonne (coaches) : 05 62 72 37 23
*Taxi RIU in Lectoure: 05 62 68 82 06.
*Cars RIVIERE in Auch : 05 62 05 46 24 (Agen/Auch line via Lectoure)
We do not take care of booking these taxis and they are not included in the price of the tour.
1 person minimum
To enable you to follow the path successfully we will send you, on receipt of payment for the holiday, the official guidebook: le topo guide Sentiers de St Jacques, GR 65, (1 guide-book is supplied for 1-4 people). (An English translation of the route directions is also available on request.)
- a small rucksack for your packed lunch and anything else needed for the day’s walk
- basic first aid – eg plasters, antiseptic fluid, alcohol for feet etc
- a good pair of walking boots or shoes, suitable for hill walking. Beware of new boots – test them or break them in first.
- sun-glasses, sun-cream and sun-hat
- waterproof garments
- light shoes for the evening
- water bottle; it is important to drink 1.5 to 2 litres per day
- a knife
- torch (optional)
- binoculars (if desired)
- paper handkerchiefs
- needle, thread, safety pins
Mobile phones : Mobile phones do not work everywhere along the journey. You may wish to have a phone card with you as well.
Dates and prices
These walking holidays can be arranged between the 1st May and the beginning of November, at any time convenient to you and subject to the availability of hotels.
Please indicate on the booking sheet any other dates which would suit you (for example if you were able to change the dates of your walking holiday by one or two days either before or after your preferred date …): this is in case one or several hotels etc are not available on your preferred date.
We would also ask you to make your booking as early as possible. We don’t keep permanent reservations and certain places of accommodation can be filled up several months in advance.
Dates and Prices
Dates |
Price WITH bag transfer | Price WITHOUT bag transfer ** |
mid April to early November |
695 € |
640 € |
Single room additional fee : + 230 €
The price includes
The price includes:
- organisation fees
- Half board
- bag transfer between the accomodations
- A guidebook (one guidebook for 1-4 people)
- tourist tax (‘taxe de séjour’)
The price does not include
The price does not include:
- The lunch picnic
- Insurance : cancellation and rapatriation : 4.3 %
- drinks; personal spending
- any additional costs: The cost of getting from your home to the starting point, or getting home again after the holiday, car park tickets, visits, shuttles or taxis, additional nights , ...
- anything else not mentionned in the section "the price includes"