Hello mate,
We where there a few years ago. We didn't find the Camargue itself that attractive (a matter of taste I guess
). Hot, sand, marshes, salt piles, a few horses, some flamingo's, desolate landscape....(and the 'vin de sable' didn't steal its name- euch
) The one village over there (Stes Maries-de-la-Mer) has 2 arires (8€/n -will be more now), tree-less but near and on the vaste beach; it is also a gipsy pilgimage. Wilding is forbidden there. It is not on the east side of the delta: Salin-de-Giraud has an aire. If you do 15 km sand-piste (= Paris-Dakar !) you can wild on the beach of Beauduc.(but an impossible rubish mess in summer!) A little better road leads you after 10 km to the Plage de Plémanson (idem dito) another wilding spot on the beach.
But what nice towns are there around the Camargue
(helas so touristic in season): Aigues-Mortes (in its medieval walls), Arles (Roman theatre), the medieval village of Les Baux, the Roman Les Antiques (both in the very beautifull hills of les Alpilles). And you have of course Avignon (the pope-town) and the roman Pont du Gard. (and the rosé-wine of that region is
not mentioning the pastis
)
If you have a little patience I dig up some places in the neighbourhood and post them.
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