Camping Lac Bleu

Dust down those hiking boots or pump up your mountain bike tyres – there are more than 4,000 kilometres of trails to wend your way along around here. If you need a little helping hand, local guides can keep you on the designated path or lend you a horse or donkey to aid your expedition. Even with that back-up, you’ll probably struggle to get round the whole lot, so it’s worth taking advice from locals on some fave spots to head for: perhaps the prehistoric caves around Boulc (20 minutes’ drive) or the Sucettes de Borne limestone formations (half an hour). For a gentle stroll, wander through the medieval centre of Châtillon en Diois (five minutes), or head to La Ferme aux Papillons to flit through the fluttering butterflies. Something a bit more active? An activity centre five minutes’ drive away can hook you up with days of canoeing, canyoning, rafting, climbing and caving, and it’s a mere five-minute amble to your local adventure park to clamber across the canopy trails or shoot down the giant toboggan run.