La Min-sú de Terrasson

Walk 'n hike

‘The path is not made to go quickly... it is made to get lost... Find a world on a human scale... Each new error is a new encounter, each step on a path digs deeper into existence on the earth's crust, and we zig-zag around modernity at four kilometers an hour. At the speed (so to speak!) of human walking. In another space-time’.

Most of the walks are based on hand-out leaflets of the local tourism-office or government. The hiking (and biking) trails are public trails signposted and maintained by the departmental government.

We grouped the ways to actively explore the landsape:

Public hiking trails

Villages that are the starting point of public hiking trails do normally provide a public parking space with an information panel. You can follow the sign posts and direction indicators. Though, sign posts and indicators are often quite a challenge to find and follow, so it would be smart to bring along a guide map as back-up.

Public hiking trails normally make 'boucles' (literally 'belt'; indicating they start and finish at the same spot) and are coloured yellow, designated horse riding tracks are orange, and trails 'linking' different boucles are indicated in green (these are not circular). The sign of a triangle with two circles indicates an all terrain biking trail; colour green means very easy, blue for easy, red for difficult and black for very difficult. Long distance hiking trails are indicated with a white and red line.

Most indicators are wooden poles and to define the direction of the trail you have to look at its position relative to the path. Straight on, straight on, follow the direction indicated on the pole. Directions are indicated as: straight on, turn right or turn left. If you get to a crossed out one, it means you are on the wrong path and should go back.

Go straight-on.

Go straight-on.

Turn in the direction of the pole.

Directions are indicated as follows:

Go straight-on.

Turn right.

Turn left.

If you get to a crossed out one, it means you are on the wrong path and should go back.