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Stevenson : du Puy a Chasserades

France, Massif Central

Version française | Travel code : RLSTEV1

Rando walk

Linear Trek
Price (from) :
739
Duration :
8 days
Mode :
Liberté
Next departure :
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This journey across the Cevennes lasted 12 days for Stevenson and his donkey, Modestine. It took him from Monastier sur Gazeille in Haute Loire to St Jean du Gard . The journey which we offer you starts at Le Puy en Velay in the Haute Loire and ends at St Jean du Gard: 14 days of walking.

“I have been after an adventure all my life, a pure dispassionate adventure, such as befell early and heroic voyagers; and thus to be found by morning in a random woodside nook in Gevaudan--not knowing north from south, as strange to my surroundings as the first man upon the earth, an

inland castaway--was to find a fraction of my day-dreams realized.”

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Reception for the walking tour takes place at the first hotel, the evening before your first day’s walking. For those arriving by car, there is the possibility of leaving your vehicle in the underground car park.

 

By train : Le Puy railway station: Gare SNCF of Le Puy en Velay (tel: 04 71 07 71 63)

There are two train services :

- Service Le Puy en Velay/St Etienne/Lyon

- Service Le Puy en Velay/St Georges d’Aurac/Clermont-Ferrand

 

By Car : Le Puy en Velay is in the department of Haute-Loire, 514km from Paris and 132km from Clermont-Ferrand (using the RN 102 road).

Michelin map 76; fold 7.

You can leave your car in Le Puy en Velay in the underground car park in the Place du Breuil. This is open every day except Sundays and public holidays from 6.30am to 7pm. It costs about 18€ per week, and the parking is secure.

If you need to get your car out of this underground car park on a Sunday, it is possible to do so by asking in advance for a magnetic card from the staff at the main car park check-out. (The telephone number for this car park is: 04 71 02 03 54.)

It is getting more and more difficult to find free parking near to the hotel. However, if you do manage to find a place, there is almost no risk. Our region is relatively free of problems.

 

Your walking tour ends the morning after your last day’s walking, after breakfast.

 

By train : Chasseradès railway station (Gare SNCF de Chasseradès) and Langogne railway station (Gare SNCF de Langogne: 04 66 69 10 80).

Avoid trying to plan your departure for a weekend or public holiday. Making connections on French railways is much more difficult on these days.

Further information about trains can be obtained by telephoning 36 35 or by looking on the SNCF website : www.sncf.fr

 

By car :

- Train from Chasseradès to La Bastide and then a bus from La Bastide to Langogne (Paris/Nîmes service) then finally a bus from Langogne to Puy en Velay (Autocar HUGON: 04 66 49 03 81).

(except for Saturday afternoons, Sundays and public holidays) Below is the website for buses between Langogne and Le Puy http://www.hugon-tourisme.com/pdf/le-puy-en-velay-mende.pdf

You can, either with our help or directly, by yourselves, book TRANSBAGAGES (tel: 04 66 65 27 75) to bring you back from Saint Jean du Gard to Le Puy en Velay

- Transport from Chasseradès to Le Puy en Velay: cost 25 € per person.

A booking for this should be made at the earliest possible opportunity. (we advise you to do it when you book your holiday or when you get confirmation of your booking, because there is a big demand for this transport and very few places. This transport is not included in the overall price for the holiday

Medium, with stages of 3 to 6 hours’ walking per day

From 140 m to 500 m of ascent on any one day

This will be in one and two star hotels or in bed and breakfast. Showers and WCs may be on landings or on the next floor in certain establishments.

 

ATTENTION: When two hotels are full, we will have to arrange for you to pass two nights at the same establishment and organise transport for the walk. (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.

 

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.

 

MIDDAY MEAL

Packed lunches are not included in our prices.

You can order them directly from the hotel the night before (by paying around 7-10€ for each person at the time – depending on the establishment). Alternatively you can buy food in the villages, where there are shops etc.

Your baggage will be transported between each of the places where you spend the night, either late in the morning or during the course of the afternoon.

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 altogether to carry your baggage if it is too cumbersome.

You are advised 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).

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To enable you to follow the route successfully we will send you, on receipt of payment for the holiday, a traveller’s file containing a list of hotels and bed and breakfasts and the official guidebook: le topo guide LE CHEMIN DE STEVENSON, GR 70, Le Puy – Alès (1 topo-guide for 1 to 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

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Dates and prices

Dates and Prices

from April 15th to October 31rst 2021

Price : 630 € per person

Price without the bag transfer: 575 €

 

Extra charge for single room : 185€

 

Night at the "Domaine de Barre" : ask us

This walking holiday 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.

The price includes

- Half board

- the carriage of luggage

- a guidebook (one guidebook for 1-4 people)

- the tourist tax (‘taxe de séjour’)

The price does not include

- The midday picnic

- insurance

- drinks; personal spending

- the cost of getting from your home to the starting point, or getting home again after the holiday

- any taxis or shuttles taking you back to your car; any extra transport for shortening sections of the walk

- parking fees.

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