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Rother Walking Guide Cote d'Azur
Ref: ROT007
Côte d'Azur: hiking along Europe's, if not the world's most famous coastline. Touring a floral landscape comprising nothing but colours, scents and the ocean. Walking along dream-like bays, in the high land of Grasse, but also in the Maritime Alps on up to 1500 m high mountain summits from where on the one side can be seen the Alps, and on the other side the Mediterranean.
Daniel Anker, one of the most renowned alpine journalists in Switzerland, presents 44 selected day and multiple-day excursions between Meton and Marseille. The selection of walks on offer ranges from walks on the Îles de Lérins through beach hikes at St.Tropez to solid mountain walking in the Massiv de I'Estérel or the Maritime Alps. The famous crossing of the Calanques and a long-distance walk in 15 stages from Menton to Marseille round off the suggestions. The author nearly always chooses paths away from the flow of tourism. All proposed walks can be reached by public transport, which was the author's exclusive means of transportation. He provides much useful advice on all walks, stating the bus and train lines as well as telephone numbers of the respective points of arrival. All this information is supplemented by details on accommodation (inc. telephone numbers), many tips on sites and comments on possible tour combinations, complemented by illustrated hiking maps; the coloured indication of the level of difficulty is an additional help for the reader to select the right tour.
The author not only offers precise route portrayals, but also conveys through his text, underlined by his excellent colour photos, the love he feels for the azure blue coast. A love you are bound to discover for yourself when exploring the remote sides of this wonderful coast with the help of this guide.
160 pages, 60 photos, 44 maps in 1:50.000 / 1:75.000 / 1:100.000
115 x 165mm, bound in paper boards with a polytex laminate
Rother Walking Guides are convenient, pocket sized guides printed throughout in full colour and presenting a wide variety of walks from easy to the more demanding .
Family-friendly routes are included as are mountain ascents, challenging day-long hikes, and tours covering several days from hut to hut.
Concise and informative descriptions, together with topographical route maps and lots of inspirational colour photographs make it a pleasure to plan and complete each of the chosen walks.
The selected walks (approximately 50 in each guide) give a full flavour of the area, well graded so that you know what terrain you are likely to encounter, and estimated walking times.
Thoroughly researched and up-to-date introductory chapters with lots of advice and informed knowledge from experienced compilers.
Invaluable tips on accommodation, interesting sights, countryside matters, transport, town walking tours etc are all included.
£8.99
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