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Albi - Gorges de l'Aveyron - Cordes-sur-Ciel - Tarn Valley - Millau - Gorges du Tarn - Larzac - Roquefort - Albi
 

• 13 days cycling tours along the 1937 railway line and Tarn river. Start and finish in Albi.

• Optional:  extra nights in any of the hotels of the package for a restday or an extra cycling day.

• Self guided cycling hotel-tour with baggage transfer for family and kids 14 years old.

• Options: ** & *** "plus" package,   *** & ** "superior" package and   *** & **** luxury package.
  

• You can start this tour any day of the week between March 15^th and October 31^th.

• Many opportunities for canoeing and swimming in Tarn river.

• Start and end in Albi.
• Bags transfers included.
• Not included: Lunches. Price of lunches (take away picknicks) : 8 - 11 EURO.
• Not included in basic rate: Bike rental.
• group discounts from 13% p.p. for parties of 3! persons to 27% p.p. for parties of 8 persons.
• Included: all luggage transfers.
• At your stay in Nant you can get a massage by Catherine Schreiber.

Your trip starts and ends in Albi. This is a long tour, "sporting" or "active" as you wish. You'll get day stages of daily average 65 - 90 km and more than 90 km if you want to do a "sporting" tour.
Winding river valleys, empty roads with just the occasional tractor. Gorgeous Gaillac wines,  the culture and old city of Albi, with its museums and art galleries and its markets. Albi is the perfect start of a  holiday. Rolling countryside, with half-timbered houses and the walled 'bastides' that go back to the time of the Plantagenet Kings, will be the secenery in the first part of this trip in the Tarn province. Easy to escape city stress meandering back roads and not see a soul for hours.
After a easy hilly start in Tarn department you come in Aveyron and the Gorges and Causses. Past Millau and its beautiful viaduct you'll get into the canyons and the Gorges du Tarn. Through the Pays de Roquefort and Templars cities (10-12th century) you'll leave the times of crusaders through the Larzac and its moonlike landscapes only haunted by shepherds and their sheep preparing your Roquefort dish, the probable end of many a dinner. Through Tarn valley you'll come back in Albi.

You will stay four times in L'un des plus beau villages de France: Bruniquel, Najac and Cordes sur Ciel in Pays de Bastides and in Brousse-le-Château in Tarn valley and last but not least a night in the tower and highest point of Cathares city Cordes-sur-Ciel, an unforgettable place. In this small hotel you can buy the Jacquard Francais tissue.

Restaurants and hotels are all of superior to excellent quality.
Three options as to the accommodation: plus, superior or luxury. All dinners are included (except in the superior and luxury packages) in Albi,  where you will stay in a ****B&B hotel on first and last day.

• Surf on the links below for more pictures of this trip.
• For booking this tour please complete our  booking form.

http://www.tourisme-aveyron.com/visite_virtuelle/index_uk.htm

Click on the links below for some pictures of this cycling tour.

 Pictures of Canyons, Gorges and Causses

 Pictures of Pays de Roquefort.

 Pictures of Tarn Valley.

 Pictures of Albi and bastides area.