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# e 0 10 miles
# ] 0 20 km by the eponymous Bourne
ISÈRE Rochetaillée Col du w as it rushes off the
Romanche \ # R Alpe d'Huez (2645m) Vercors plateau. Watch
Galibier
for narrow turnouts
(1860m)
alongside the roadway
c
# \ c
Le Peage Glacier du Col du where you can pull off
de Vizille Les Deux \ # R Mont du Lautaret and admire the views.
Barre des FG
Alpes Lans (2057m) 17
(3425m)
R Écrins # The Drive » Near the end
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c
\ # (4102m) of the gorges, bear left on the
La Berarde
# Entraigues c D103 and proceed 20km south
\
through the pretty mountain
villages of St-Julien-en-Vercors
/ · and St-Martin-en-Vercors. At St-
D66
# \ Parc Agnan-en-Vercors continue 5km
Mens # Pellafol National south on the D518 to the Grotte
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# Défilé de des Écrins de la Luire.
5
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la Souloise
/ · \ # HAUTES-
D17
St-Étienne- / · ALPES 3 Grottes de la
N85
en-Dévoluy
0 ¸ Luire ALPS, JURA & RHÔNE VALLEY 18 FOOTHILLS OF THE ALPS
D937
Embrun # \ The Vercors was a hotbed
# Gap of the French Resist-
# Montmaur \
\
0 ¸ Lac de Serre- ance in WWII. This cave
D994
Ponçon (www.grottedelaluire.com; Le
passage, 26420 Saint Agnan en
Durance
Vercors; adult/child €8.50/6;
# \ Serres St-Jean \ #
h17 Dec-13 Nov) outside
the town of St-Agnan-en-
# \ Eyguians 0 ¸ Vercors served as a field
D900
Buëch
PROVENCE hospital for Resistance
0 ¸ St-Geniez fighters for five days in
D1075
/ · # \ Col de July 1944 before German
troops raided it, killing
D3
Font-Belle c
Sisteron # # (1708m) Barles # La Javie c
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Thoard # \ ALPES LINK
DE HAUTE-PROVENCE
Château- YOUR
# Arnoux # Digne-
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St-Auban Bléone les-Bains TRIP
Réserve
Ganagobie /· de Haute-Provence h
# \ Prieure de \ # # \ Les Mées Géologique Alpine Adventure
A51
(660m) R Head northeast from
D953
Lurs # \ 0 ¸ Barrème Lans-en-Vercors to explore
\ # # \
Forcalquier Brunet
# \ Oraison ‚ France’s most awe-inspiring
\ # Moustiers- peaks.
Puimoisson \ # #\ Ste-Marie
# # Collet Verdon Lavender Route
\ # 7
# Valensole Barris m
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(1459m) Wander the
D952
‚
Lac de
Parc Naturel Ste-Croix c R 0¸ purple-fringed back roads
Verdon du Verdon d'Illoire # m K of Provence, west of
Régional
Col
#
8
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(964m) Gorges Moustiers-Ste-Marie.
# Quinson
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St-Paul-
lès-Durance # Montmeyan
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