![]() The walk follows a winding path southwards across the Cevennes National Park which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The route encounters ever-changing landscape featuring a beautiful mixture of tranquil woodlands, river valleys, mountain streams, ancient footpaths, traditional stone villages, pastures of wildflowers and colourful heathlands. The local Cathedral Notre-Dame is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and marks the start of the Camino Le Puy pilgrimage trail heading to Santiago de Compostela. The medieval town of Le Puy-en-Velay is a fascinating town to wander around and is dominated by three towering volcanic plugs. The trail starts in the volcanic plateau of the Velay region, to the north of the Massif Central. However, the Cevennes mountain range is more rounded than some of the mightier French mountains and thus more accessible. Stevenson’s Trail explores some remote and authentic parts of central rural France and traverses some wild mountain territory. Today, Stevenson’s travels in the Cevennes have been immortalised in the form of a Grand Randonee, the GR 70. His walk diaries from that trip formed the basis of his first bestseller “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes”. In 1878, Stevenson walked this route with a pack donkey called Modestine. ![]() This wonderful trail follows in the footsteps of Scottish author and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson who is best known for his works “Treasure Island” and “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”. ![]()
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