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Stes-Maries-de-la-Mer White horses on the beach

The Drive » Backtrack north mountains. As fruitful as before Le Sambuc, while La
along the D36. Just before Salin it is beguiling, this is Eu- Chassagnette’s fork and trowel
de Giraud, look for a car park rope’s largest salt works, shingle is on the left to its north.
and a small black shack on producing some 800,000
your right. tonnes per year. A small
shop (the aforementioned 9 Le Sambuc
black shack) sells sel de This sleepy town’s
8 Le Point de Vue Camargue (Camargue outskirts hide away a
This lookout provides salt) by the pot or sack, couple of the region’s
a rare vantage point to bull sausages and tins of best restaurants and its
take in the stunning fragrant local olive oil. most upscale lodgings.
scene of pink-stained The Drive » Heading north Manadier (bull estate
salins (saltpans) and on D36 for 20 minutes, Le owner) Jacques Bon, son
soaring crystalline Mas de Peint is on your right of the family who owns

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