Country

Vercors · France

Duration

5 days · 4 nights

Profile

Mountainous

Supported Tour

Van support

Private Tour

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From 1890€/pers

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EXPLORING THE VERTIGO ROADS OF THE VERCORS. 

Even if the Vercors remains one of the most isolated places in France, it is thanks to the creation of the Vertigo Routes, between 1850 and 1900, that this mountain range was opened up. These sublime roads were built in corbels, carved out of the rock in cliffs often several hundred meters high. Like the Route de Combe Laval, they offer travellers exceptional panoramas. A bike tour in the Vercors is a journey in unknown lands. This impregnable rock fortress is an unexpected haven of peace between the Alps and Provence.

Day 1 : Welcome to the Vercors

We will meet you at the Valence TGV station at a predetermined time before transferring you to your hotel in the Vercors. In the afternoon we will take the opportunity to introduce you to the program and adjust your bike.

Meals: Dinner

Accomodation: Hotel Le Maronnier – Rencurel

Let’s ride through an unlikely route in narrow gorges with portions of the itinerary corbeled above the void, and others carved into the rock. The water has cut magnificent gorges in the limestone of the Vercors since millennia. Man has taken advantage of these routes to dig on the side of a cliff roads at the end of the 19th century and thus open up the Vercors to the world. These gorges, surprising and a little confidential are now classified as a sensitive natural area.

Meals: Breakfast · Picnic / Lunch · Dinner

Route: Option 1 : 50 km / 1700 m Elevation Gain – Option 2 : 70 km / 2200 m Elevation Gain

Accomodation: Hotel Le Maronnier – Rencurel

We reach the villages of Vassieux-en-Vercors and La Chapelle en Vercors where we will have the opportunity to pay tribute to the French Resistance in the Vercors, the massif being famous for its Maquis from 1941 to 1944.

Meals: Breakfast · Picnic / Lunch · Dinner

Route: Option 1 : 50 km / 1000 m Elevation Gain – Option 2 : 90 km / 2000 m Elevation Gain

Accomodation: Joy Hotel 3* – Villard de Lans

Pont-en-Royans will surprise you at first sight. His ochre, yellow or pink houses had already impressed Stendhal. They are built on the rock, with protrusions above the water and wooden supports. Unique and picturesque! We then ride towards Combe Laval, one of the most vertiginous roads in the Vercors! Aerial, carved into the impressive cliffs, the audacious road hangs over the valley, 600 m below. After several tunnels, the road opens out offering spectacular views of Combe Laval’s magnificent circus.

Meals: Breakfast · Picnic / Lunch · Dinner

Route: Option 1 : 55 km / 1200 m Elevation Gain – Option 2 : 85 km / 1750 m Elevation Gain

Accomodation: Joy Hotel 3* – Villard de Lans

It’s the end of this bike tour in Vercors with Veymont Travel. After breakfast your guide will take you to Valence TGV station.

Meals: Breakfast

IncluDED
NoT INCLUDED

Accomodation

  • 4 nights in 3* hotel (or equivalent) in double occupancy

Meals

  • 4 breakfasts
  • 3 picnics / lunches
  • 4 dinners
  • Sport nutrition for every day of cycling

Guiding

  • 1 guide-driver with van who supports the group all along the tour

Activities

  • 3 bike rides
  • Vercors Resistance museum visit
  • Choranche cave visit

Equipment

  • Garmin GPS rental : 1 for 4 pers.
  • 2 bottles
  • 1 Veymont Travel cycling jersey

Support & Transfer

  • Transfer of people
  • Transfer of luggages
  • Transfer of bikes
  • Mechanical assistance
  • Pick up and drop off at predeterminated places
Non Inclus Séjour Liberté
  • Travel and repatriation insurance
  • Plane/train tickets and transportation to/from predetermined pick up/drop off locations
  • Accomodation before and after the stay
  • Personnal effetcs purchased during the stay
  • Activities not planned by Veymont Travel
  • Meals not mentionned in the “meals” section
  • Wine and dinks in bars, hotels and restaurants
  • Bike rental
  • Cycling guide

Guaranteed departure from 4 participants. Less than 4? More than 8? Contact-us !

In option:

  • Bike rental and equipment
  • Room in Single occupation
  • Cycling guide