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Tour Duration: 7 days Grade: Price: £710 (land only) Estimated Flight Cost: £150 Optional: Bike Hire £120 Insurance £24 Carbon Offset Cost: £2 Tour Details: 2 Centre Based, 3 nights Auberge, 3 nights Gîte, All meals provided 5 days biking Guided Tour Dates & Codes:
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11 May 08 01 Jun 08 06 Jul 08 25 Aug 08 21 Sep 08 10 May 09 31 May 09
he Cévennes are a long chain of mountains in the south of the Massif Central, renowned for their wild natural beauty and diversity of the landscape. A Skedaddle classic in the making, this twin centre based biking holiday explores the great rolling tracks of its high plains and the lush wooded trails of its steep sided valleys and is the perfect tour for those looking to developing your mountain biking skills, while enjoying some fantastic local hospitality. After arrival into Lyon or Nimes we transfer to our first base, an auberge in a small hamlet high on the plains. Crossing the Massif de Prataubérat, through a woody terrain thick with blueberry and raspberry bushes we head out for our second base. A marvelous descent of around a thousand metres is our first taste of this new landscape; terraces of sweet chestnut trees, mulberry trees, and vineyards, source of the fabulous local wines.
Forest trails, paths and short stretches of country road lead us to our next lodgings, a gite next to the Beaume river. Once again traditional local recipes are the specialty of our host who will prepare all our meals on the premises. Over generations, the people of the Ardèche Cévennes have built magnificent stone villages and hamlets, perched on the mountainside, and well discover the charms of these secret places in the concluding part of the week. This is a paradise perfect for exploring by mountain bike. Our trails worn smooth by the postmen of yesteryear, will take us over high mountain passes that descend to medieval towns, and alongside luminous rivers that wind into wild gorges perfect for bathing
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17 May 08 07 Jun 08 12 Jul 08 30 Aug 08 27 Sep 08 16 May 09 06 Jun 09
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CEV08/01 CEV08/02 CEV08/03 CEV08/04 CEV08/05 CEV09/01* CEV09/02*
Plentiful local food and wine are on offer after thrilling days riding on the forest tracks and moorland trails that criss-cross the Massif D Abraham, and famous mountain ridges of the Tanargue.
For a detailed tour dossier 0191 265 1110 www.skedaddle.co.uk
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* Prices for 2009 subject to increase.
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