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VILLENEUVE-PLAGE OR THE "VIEUX GUÉ" - LOU GAS VIEL -the old passage
It is by derision that the autochtones called this place Villeneuve-Beach. It is advisable to ignore the insinuations mockers because the place is famous, surely one of most beautiful,and wildest.
1,3 kilometer after Villeneuve, the still tarred road meets the small brook which goes down from Salarials. It is necessary to park before the bridge, then after having crossed the river, take the sand track on the right. It gently leads you towards banks of the Tarn which you guess downwards.
According to the time of the year, your progression could be opposed by the presence of herds maybe. You will not give up, the way is well traced in the brooms and the ferns and the bank very close.
Passing through the ferns, it is necessary to follow the canal which overhangs the river for two or three hundred meters. At the height of the scale of rising, an immense stained granite plate with yellow lichen, in beautiful season, pushes back the Tarn on its right bank and constitutes a broad hot stone solarium which penetrates your body on a summer afternoon.Immediately downstream, a basin whose extent and depth are unexpected at this height of the Tarn, invites you to swim. It is possible to swim on about thirty meters and to plunge of two banks. The water is fresh and is deserved. It is not interdict to proceed by successive stages of tonic baths in the water and pacifying naps with the sounds of water and songs of birds.
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