La Motte du Caire, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d`Azur

La Motte du Caire – The gorgours High provence

Anyone who has enough to harry through the mass of people in overcrowded tourist villages and searches silence and relaxation instead of this, is exactly right in La Motte du Caire. The coarse roughness of the scenery impresses by formidable mountains, extensive forests and sparklingcreeks. Erosion slopes confer again and again an extremely wird scenery in this area.

La Motte du Caire is an idyllic village amidst the vallèe du Grand Canon. Here you are far away form the mass tourism yet, anonymous hotel shelters are searched for nothing. Instead of this there are family-run boarding houses and comfy holiday homes.

 

The area is like especially created for the family vacation. Bright hikes through the lusty forests or extensive bicycle tours inspire the adults and the little ones. The opportunities to explore the magnificent scenery on the back of a horse are also very popular. You can even climb up the mountains on a horse using well developed trails, whereas again and again new, indescribable views unclose.

Those loving sports will find opportunities for mountain biking, climbing or canoeing. La Motte du Caire is an eldorado for all gliders and thus also brave holidaymakers can dare the first steps of hang-gliding and paragliding.

The fixed rope route “Via ferrate de la Grande Fistoire” which leads vertically up is surely a highlight as well as the largest suspension bridge of Europe. Here one should unconditionally be free from giddiness. 

The Verdon canyon near of Castellane offers an unbelievable fascinating view. This canyon with a depth of up to 700 m is famous as being one of the largest canyons in Europe.

La Motte du Caire in France – a tiny village with an unbelievable variety..

 

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