The heart of Provence is in the hills that connect the sea to the Alps. These are the sloping vineyards; the cultivated lands and the colorful scenery that charmed Cezanne (Aix en Provence), Van Gogh (Arles), Chagall or Giono. According to the area, we propose different trails all as interesting as the others.
Simply from the Rhône Valley, basking in a great Mediterranean weather, the Luberon has, within the hundreds of years, held its assets - both social and normal - perfectly intact.
The Luberon, which has been a listed location (Parc Naturel Régional) since 1977, provides a wide array of activities to meet the discerning traveler.
Its breathtaking villages (Bonnieux, Roussillon, Lourmarin, Gordes...), its neighborhood products and craftwork coupled with its ever changing surroundings, will make certain you a memorable time in this part of Provence. based what you're trying to find, a relaxed trip or something like that much more difficult, we can provide different itineraries to be able to fit beginners in addition to skilled bikers. Click to see our various trips.
When you look at the south of Provence, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, Camargue is a distinctive environment of marshlands bounded by two limbs associated with the Rhône additionally the mediterranean and beyond. The great Rhone river fulfills the mediterranean and beyond in an enormous delta in which planet and liquid are deeply blended.
With an area of over 930 km² (360 sq. miles), the Camargue is western Europe's biggest river delta, with exemplary biological variety, and home to unique breeds of ponies and bulls, and also to more than 400 species of wild birds including green flamingos.
Camargue ponies form a distinct type, which, like the Camargue bulls, live-in semi-liberty. They truly are utilized for rounding up Camargue bulls. These are generally never stabled, but well able to endure the humid summer temperature in addition to biting winter cool.
The Camargue horse is among the earliest types on earth, closely regarding the primitive horses whose keeps happen discovered somewhere else in southern France.
The full time of a week-end, find around and our horses the Provencal countryside.
We begin the ride from a privative residence of 200hectares and rapidly pass through typical Provencal trails in the “Massif diverses Maures”, one of several wildest and oldest websites of Provence.