Page 250 - Lonely Planet France’s Best Trips (Travel Guide)

TRIP HIGHLIGHT
Lavender
22 Route 1 Coustellet
Our trail begins just
outside the village of
Coustellet at the Musée
de la Lavande (%04 90 76
The Luberon and Vaucluse may be well- 91 23; www.museedelalavande.
trodden (and driven) destinations, but you’ll be com; D2, Coustellet; adult/
child €6.80/free; h9am-7pm
surprised at how rustic they remain. This trip May-Sep, 9am-noon & 2-6pm
takes you to the undoubtedly big-ticket (and Oct-Apr), an excellent eco-
museum and working
exquisitely beautiful) sights but also gets you lavender farm, where you
exploring back roads, sleepy villages, big skies can take a guided tour
of the lavender fields,
and one stunner of a mountain. And yes, past learn about extraction
fields and fields of glorious purple blooms. methods and buy laven-
der goodies in the on-site

# e 0 0 10 miles 20 km
# ] Vaison-la-
Romaine
Mt Serein Mont
(1445m) R Ventoux
#
5
VAUCLUSE Beaumont #
# \
du Ventoux 0 ¸
D974
0 ¸ D164
Le Barroux 0 ¸
# \
D164
Beaumes
de Venise # \ / · # Sault 0 ¸
D950
#
4
D1
Châteauneuf 0 ¸
du Pape # \ Carpentras D943
# \
PROVENCE
D230
Sorgues # \ / · # \ Venasque 0 ¸ 0 ¸
D943
D3
Simiane-
0 ¸ 0 ¸ Lagarde d'Apt # \ la-Rotonde # \
D177
/ · Sorgue Abbaye D244 # \ # \Murs
A7
#
3
Notre-Dame
D4
# ] Avignon de Sénanque# / · / · # St-Saturnin-lès-Apt
2
D2
F G L'Isle-sur- # c
21
la-Sorgue # \ Gordes # \ Roussillon Gargas Parc Naturel
# \
Coustellet 0 ¸ 0¸ Apt Régional du Luberon
D149
D900
/ · l L # \ Goult Saignon # \
# \
# \ #
# 1
D22
Sivergues Calavon
# \ Cavaillon # \ # \ # \ Auribeau
Bonnieux # \ Buoux R
Mourre Nègre
(1125m)
# \ Cucuron