Page 501 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - France

Must See
Displays include video footage
and slide shows, and provide
an excellent intro duction to
the people, environment and STAY
wildlife of the wetlands.
Among the many subjects L’Auberge Cavalière
covered are the lives of the du Pont des Bannes
Camargue cow boys and story Stay in luxury rooms in
of Frédéric Mistral, who won
these lovely waterside
the Nobel Prize for literature farmhouse-style villas.
in 1904.
Guest perks include
swim ming pools, a spa,
riding stables and an
5 excellent restaurant.
Étang de Fangassier ⌂ Rte d’Arles, Les
Saintes Maries-de-la-
n Rte d’Arles, 13129 Salin Mer ∑ auberge
de Giraud # For guided cavaliere.com
tours only ¢ Oct–Mar ¡¡¡
∑ guides-nature.com
The Étang de Fangassier is Mas Saint Germain
home to France’s only breeding Accommodation in
4 "= colony of flamingos. Between spacious self-catering
Musée de la Camargue 10,000 and 15,000 pink- gîtes and guesthouse
plumaged pairs raise their rooms among Camargue
⌂ Mas pont de Rousty,
D570, Arles # Hours vary, young on and around a lagoon fields and pastureland.
check website ∑ musee island that was used for salt ⌂ Villeneuve-
production until 2008. The
delacamargue.com Camargue, Arles
flamingos feed on shrimp ∑ massaint
The customs and lifestyles of and other tiny creatures that germain.com
the Camargue are the focus thrive in the lagoon. During ¡¡¡
of this museum, housed in the the breeding season you can
huge barn of a traditional hear the birds from hundreds
Provençal mas, or farmhouse. of metres away.
Aimargues
St-Gilles-du-Gard Petite Rhône Arles Mouriès
Le Cailar
St-Martin-
Musée de la de-Crau
L ANGUEDOC - Maisom du Riz Camargue
R OUSSILL ON
PR O VENCE
GARD
Aigues-Mortes
Méjanes Villeneuve
BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE
Plaine de la Mas
Petite Camargue Étang de Vaccarès Thibert
Camargue
Parc Ornithologique La Capelière
du Pont-de-Gau Grand Rhône
Petite
Plaine de la
P ar c Natur el Camargue
R égional de
Rhône
C amar gue
Les Saintes-Maries-
de-la-Mer
Salin de
Golfe de Beauduc Giraud
Étang de
Medit err anean Fangassier Port
Sea St-Louis Golfe
de Fos
Domaine de la Palissade
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