Grisou the Mule


Nature tamed

Les Ayres
"There were three loues, the first on the Sunday after 29 September, on Saint-Michael’s, the big fair a week later and the third the following week (....)"
Labourers hired themselves out for various jobs: silkworm or chestnut harvesting, threshing wheat or picking grapes, guarding and accompanying sheep flocks on the summer pastures… There was no work contract when employer and employee reached agreement. The day labourer left a personal belonging with his employee as a security.

Saint-André in the old days
Between Saint-André and Le Viala, you cross the Gourg de la Vache, so called ever since a cow fell in and drowned.
Description
1) Take the path on the right downhill to the river. Cross the bridge and go back up on a path with hairpin bends, which crosses a track three times.
2) After the chestnut orchard, take the track on the right to the road.
3) Cross the road and take the path which climbs above Le Valès to Les Ayres.
4) Turn left onto the D 54 to go through the village and, by the big chestnut trees, take the track on the left (the former draille or drovers’ road) to the Croix de Bourrel.
5) Shortly before the Croix de Bourrel, take the path on the left to join the road. Turn right onto the road. At the first intersection, turn right; at the second, turn left to walk through the hamlet of Saint-André de Lancize.
6) In the lower hamlet, take the grassy path through the gardens and meadows, then cross a ford, "le Gourg de la Vache". Continue on this path, cross a second ford, and walk uphill to join the road.
7) Turn left onto the road and, as you leave Le Viala, take on your right the small road that goes uphill to the hamlet of La Carrière. Go past the houses, stay on the track, join up again with the D 984 to reach Valmale. Go downhill on the road and take the track below the road, on the left, to return to your car.
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Recommandations
Information desks
Office de tourisme Des Cévennes au mont Lozère
le Quai, 48220 Le Pont de Montvert sud mont-Lozère
https://www.cevennes-montlozere.com/
info@cevennes-montlozere.com
04 66 45 81 94
Tourism'house and national Parc at Florac
Place de l'ancienne gare, N106, 48400 Florac-trois-rivières
https://www.cevennes-gorges-du-tarn.com
info@cevennes-parcnational.fr
04 66 45 01 14
This office is part of the National Park's associated tourist-information network, whose mission is to provide information on, and raise awareness of, the sites and events as well as the rules that must be observed in the National Park's central zone.
On site: exhibitions, video projections, events and shop Open year-round
Tourism office Des Cévennes au mont-Lozère, Saint-Germain-de-Calberte
Village, 48370 Saint-Germain-de-Calberte
https://www.cevennes-montlozere.com/
info@cevennes-montlozere.com
04 66 45 81 94
This office is part of the National Park's associated tourist-information network, whose mission is to provide information on, and raise awareness of, the sites and events as well as the rules that must be observed in the National Park's central zone.
Open year-round, except for 2 weeks at Christmas
Access and parking
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