Some landscapes have to be earned: a few steps, a cliffside path or a road of hairpin bends, and the panorama suddenly opens up: the highest dune in Europe, the crater of an extinct volcano, a river a hundred metres below in a deep gorge.
Twelve dizzying viewpoints, from the Dune du Pilat to the Corsican clifftop roads, to gain some height on France. Bring good shoes and, for some, a little vertigo to tame.
Basalt organ pipes: overlooking the town by 350 m, the Bort organs are formed by phonolite flows, whose end is cut into columns 80 to 100 m high, over a length of 2 km.
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Starting from Tourville, crossing the limestone plateau through apple trees and oak forests.
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Thin seams and numerous faults characterise the coalfields of the Nord, which forced miners to extract very large volumes of "waste rock", often reaching half the tonnage of coal.
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The Puy de Dôme is a dormant volcano of the Chaîne des Puys, in the Massif Central. It is about fifteen kilometres from Clermont-Ferrand and gave its name to the Puy-de-Dôme département.
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The Pic de Nore is the highest point of the Montagne Noire (1,210 m), a southern balcony of the Cévennes.
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The Corsican river Fango offers magnificent panoramas, between waterfalls, pools and slides...
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On the borders of the communes of La Motte-d'Aveillans and Pierre-Châtel, not far from La Mure, the Pierre Percée is one of the most astonishing geological curiosities of our region.
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Nestled between ocean and forest, the largest dune in Europe proudly overlooks the entrance to Arcachon Bay from its 109 m. The beauty of its landscape, endlessly sculpted by wind and tides, makes it a true wonder of nature, ephemeral and fragile.
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Regarded as the "Green Lung" of Île-de-France, the Fontainebleau forest offers varied landscapes and exceptional sites: the chaos and desert of Apremont, famous for its piles of rocks; the heights of La Solle, for the panorama below over the racecourse and...
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The natural site of the Roches de Ham is in the Vire valley. These steep cliffs overlook the valley from about a hundred metres' height.
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Trébeurden's wild coast, which unfolds on either side of these beaches, offers walks where the customs officers' path will make you stop on the Pointe du Château peninsula, where several rocks seem to turn into sculpted animals.
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An extraordinary pink sandstone spur 650 metres high rises in the heart of the Vosges forest. This natural belvedere offers an extraordinary and unique panorama over the whole region.
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