Challenging Cycling Holiday in Southern-Aveyron:

Land of the Templars and Roquefort. Grands Causses Nature Park

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Challenging Cycling holiday in South Aveyron, South of France

Itineraries	Day programs	Pricing

5 to 11 days self guided Challenging Cycling hotel-tour with baggage transfer.
Daily cycling distances:82-111 km. Sports tours!
Global elevation gains from100 to 400m, 3 to 5 times a day.
Hotels ** with toilet, shower/bath en suite
All dinners included (starter, main course, dessert), beverages not included.
You can book an extra night in any hotel of the package for a rest-day or an extra cycling day.
Hilly stages in a very diverse area in South of France.
Standard ** packages of this challenging tour are also available.
You can start this tour any day of the week between March 15^th and October 24^th.
Important group discounts for Parties van 3 personen to 8 personen.
Moderate tours are also available.

A journey through the quiet, sparsely populated Parc Naturel Régional des Grands Causses.

https://www.tourisme-aveyron.com/fr

St. Affrique - Camarès - Ceilhes - S.Jean-du-Bruel - Gorges de la Dourbie - Millau - St. Affrique

Causse du Larzac

Through the river valley of the Sorgues and Cernon, up and down the hills of the Monts de l"Hérault you will head to the vast limestone plateau of the Larzacthe domain of shepherds, the providers of the Roquefort. Modern time keeps up at slow pace here. Past centuries-old villages, such as the Templars fortresses of Ste Eulalie-de-Cernon and La Couvertoirade. You bike in a hilly to mountainous area staying in small characteristic **. *** and **** family-run hotels and Guesthouses, where you'll enjoy the special menus of the Aveyron "terroir".
More info on the scenery you"ll be cycling in.

For a stage through the Gorges du Tarn you can book the 7, 8 or 9 days trip. The 8 and 9 trip have stages to Sévérac-le-Château and the Lévézou plateau and Tarn valley.
Every trip can be extended with extra (i.e. second) nights in one of the standard hotels for a rest-day or for a extra cycling day for a small or large loop around the hotel you opt for.
This very typical and characteristic tour of South-Aveyron can be started in St. Affrique as well as in Millau.

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Pays de Roquefort.

More pictures on Pays de Roquefort.

South of the Tarn river, water acting on the limestone plateaux created caves, subterranean rivers, gushing springs.The most famous of the caves is now still used for the ripening of sheep cheese: Roquefort, king of cheeses, cheese of kings.

St.Jean d'Alcas

Pays de Roquefort also includes the Causse du Larzac with its restored Medieval Templars garrisons from where crusades set out in 10th-13th centuries, and the Redlands of Camarès with its Cistercienzer Abbaye de Sylvanès. St.Affrique, a small Southern town, is the starting place of many walks in this walking area. The landscape exudes peace and unspoiled natural beauty.

St. Affrique in Sud Aveyron
Saint Affrique

Here le "Midi" (South of France) begins: A nice climate, : mountains, limestone plateaus (Causses), lush green valleys, roaring rivers (Sorgues, Dourdou). Lots of small villages here. No fast food here, but the French cuisine, honest food in small family-run hotels and you will get a warm welcome.

More pictures of Pays de Roquefort.

Gorges and Causses, French canyons

More pictures of Gorges and Causses.

The second part of this trip, you will go to the Gorges (canyons) and Causses (limestone plateaus) of the Gorges du Tarn. East of Millau the Tarn river and its tributaries carved out 4 canyon like Gorges: Gorges de la Dourbie, Gorges de la Jonte, Gorges du Trèvezel and the most famous of all the Gorges du Tarn.

Vase de Sèvres, Gorges de la Jonte. These Gorges are at the heart of the most spectacular cycling area of the Grands Causses Natural Parc. Steep crags of 400m and the typical scenery of limestone plateaux dissected by rivers. You can visit the Grotte Rose of Dargilan, the unusual scenery of the Causses (Le Chaos de Montpellier le Vieux and Roques Altes).

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Itineraries	Day stages	Pricing

2025	BnB	Dinners	Basic rate p.p.	Suppl. July & August	Suppl. single room	Hybrid Bike rental	E-Bike rental
B02 Challenging plus package	Bags transfers included in basic rate. Basic rate: in p.p. double room, sharing.
5 days	4	2	734	37	250	55	137
6 days	5	2	926	44	303	74	167
7 days	6	3	1066	52	373	92	191
8 days	7	4	1248	53	405	111	207
9 days	8	5	1647	55	513	129	215
10 days	9	6	1866	63	544	148	246
11 days	10	7	1505	64	522	155	277
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Extra nights	BnB	Dinner	Basic rate p.p.	Suppl. HS	Supplement single room	Bike rental	E-bike rental
St.Affrique *** Vaxergues	yes	no	80	16	68	16	31
Plaisance Les Magnolias ***	yes	yes	96	9	55	16	31
Millau Hotel des Causses ***	yes	no	63	8	46	16	31
Take-away lunches are not included. You can order them at the hotel or the host the evening before departure. Solo all-in: add 62% of basic_rate_pp_double_room_sharing (single room and single bags transfer supplement included) For booking this tour please complete our booking form .

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Discount on basic rate p.p. for small groups and families
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Parties of 3 persons :   6 % p.p.
Parties of 4 persons :   7 % p.p.
Parties of 5 persons :   8 % p.p.
Parties of 6 persons :   8 % p.p.
Parties of 7 persons :   9 % p.p.
Parties of 8 persons : 10 % p.p.

Itineraries	Day stages	Pricing

	5 days	6 days	7 days	8 days	9 days	10 days	11 days
Stages 5 to 11 days packages
St. Affrique -*	day 1 0, 34 or 63 km	day 1 0, 34 or 63 km	day 1 0, 34 or 63 km	day 1 0, 34 or 63 km	day 1 0, 34 or 63 km	day 1 0, 34 or 63 km	day 1 0, 34 or 63 km
Camarès ** pool	day 2 42, 62 km or 98 km	day 2 42, 62 km or 98 km	day 2 42, 62 km or 98 km	day 2 42, 62 km or 98 km	day 2 42, 62 km or 98 km	day 2 en 3 42, 62 km or 98 km	day 2 en 3 42, 62 km or 98 km
Ceilhes **	day 3 61 or92 km	day 3 61 or92 km	day 3 61 or 92 km	day 3 61 or 92 km	day 3 61 or 92 km	day 4 61 or 92 km	day 4 61 or 92 km
St. Jean-du-Bruel -*pool			day 4 60 or 94 km	day 4 60 or 94 km	day 4 60 or 94 km	day 5 60 or 94 km	day 5 en 6 60 or 94 km
Hotel des Causses*** Millau		day 4 68 or 93 km	day 5 57 or 73 km	day 5 57 or 73 km	day 5 57 or 73 km	day 6 57 or 73 km	day 7 57 or 73 km
Brousse-le-Château **				day 6 84 km	day 6 84 km	day 7 84 km	day 8 84 km
Castelnau-Pégayrols ** pool					day 7 52, 78 or 102 km	day 8 84 km	day 9 84 km
St. Affrique -*	day 4 46 or 86 km	day 5 44 or 70 km	day 6 44 or 70 km	day 7 62 or 71 km	day 8 60 or 80 km	day 9 60 or 80 km	day 10 60 or 80 km
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Land of the Templars and Roquefort. Grands Causses Nature Park

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