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| Cucuron Etang |
This is an easy walk for almost all
year. Fantastic views most of the way, first along the vineyards towards
Vaugines, later along the “balcony routes” back from Vaugines towards Cucuron
and last down past the old Cucuron Chapel “Hermitage”.
Start off from the end of the Etang
in central Cucuron along the GR-markings for Vaugines. You take off from the
GR, however, fairy rapidly, following the signposted vineyard route (wrought
iron signs) for the first leg of this walk. You will be entering Vaugines at
the Church end of the village in about an hour.
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| Approaching Vaugines |
From Vaugines Church, walk through
the village lengthwise and at the other end of the village, start by following
GR-signs for the Luberon ridge (Vallon de Vauniere). But not for long. About 1
km after having left the village, you take off from the GR (here a forest
track) and take off to the left on a mounting footpath. Here you will have the
first little climb of the day before it soon flattens out. Walk on to the right
for another 4-5 minutes.
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| Vaugines Church |
As you join another forest track
(about 45 minutes from the Church), take sharp right and follow the track a bit
upwards, then back down to Vallon de Vauniere. Back in Vauniere, take right and
descent the valley for about 200 meters, till you see a small path taking off
to the left (not marked on maps). Here you will have the second little climb of
the day, but at the top you are rewarded by a fantastic view and a wider forest
track to follow over to the next valley with magnificent views all along
because of recent logging.
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| Grotte |
When the forest track meets up with
the next forest track in a T-junction (another 30 minutes), take left and start
a small climb up this valley. Keep right at the first cross-road and you will
soon be on another small path opening up as the “balcony route” between
Vaugines and Cucuron. It will take you about 30 minutes before the path ends up
on the Cucuron side on a forest track going up to “la Citerne. Take right here
and you see a small Cave on your left. A bit further along, you have a nice
place for lunch at the 582 meter point.
To get the last bit of this “balcony
route”, you need to climb up along the forest track a bit to the 360 degrees
turning of the big forest road just north-east of the where you had lunch. Follow
the big road down towards Cucuron, but at the 530 meter point, you take off to
the right on a smaller forest track out to the Chapel Hermitage, where you will
be in slightly less than one hour from lunch.
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| Chapel "Hermitage" |
You continue the path south of the
Chapel (signposted 2.2 km to Cucuron) and follow the yellow markings back to
the village.
Basic
information:
Duration: 5,5h (group of 20)
Distance: 14 km.
Ascent: 400 m
Difficulty: Easy
Start/finish: Cucuron
Map: IGN 3243 OT (1cm=250 m)
GPX-file: Cucuron1 (Link to free download from list)
VisoRando Lien.
Pour le fichier GPX,
vous pouvez télécharger à partir d'ici (voir ci-dessus) ou mettre à jour via ce
lien VisoRando où vous pourrez également voir l'itinéraire sur une bonne carte:
For the GPX-file, you
could download from here (see just above) or go to this VisoRando link where
you also will see the route on a good
map.
If
you have problems with this VisoRando link, download the GPX-file from above
and import it to VisoRando or other application.
TET:
31.01.2020: Anne, with lunch after 3 hours at 12.40.
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