Description
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
Day 2: Isère Valley - Gorges de la Bourne
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
Day 3: La Chapelle en Vercors - Vassieux en Vercors
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
Day 4: Pont en Royans - Combe Laval
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
Day 5: End of stay
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
Opening
From 01/04 to 31/10.
Additional info
- Payment :Bank/credit cardCredit transfer
- Spoken languages :EnglishSpanishFrench
Prices
Adult: from 1,890 €.
Group rate available for > 4 people.
Price includes:
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
Price doesn't include:
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
All info on https://www.veymont-travel.com/en/bike-tours/france/vercors-vertigo-roads/.
