Rosis. Le Tour du Mouscaillou. Herault, France.

Rosis. Le Tour du Mouscaillou. 5km. 2h. blue in parts. This is a most delightful ramble. It smells deliciously of sweet, warm pines and honey scented flowers. The air is cool and the views are incredible. It just a favourite all time walk. Great for dogs with lots of water. Park at the col de Madale and walk the short distance to the next junction heading west. Turn down this little road and over the pretty bridge. Now keep heading up to the top of the hill. Someway past a small track on your right you will see some blue dots on the trees. Take this grassy path down to the track and then left up the track to the top of the hill, just past the house. Here you will see that the blue dots take you up through the beech woods to and down to a stream. Cross the cross, it was empty today. Then down a small overgrown path alongside a high wall to reach the small river. Don't cross the bridge, go over the track in front of the Chateau and then cross the tiny flat stone bridge and up to the road. Cross and go through the hamlet of Rosis. The little path will take you through the trees to reach the wonderful views at the col d'Aussieres. We often picnic here. You can do a fe different tracks here. I now go over to Massaral and Mouscaillou, the two rounded tops which were long ago volcanoes. The views are simply stupendous from up here. I tend to retrace my tracks and then take the wide track to my left that goes south down towards the road on zigzags through the forest. As you pass a field on your left watch out for the forest to change from pines to chestnuts. You will now see that here is a little path through the chestnuts that follows a low stone wall (on your left) It's marked with blue dots once again. The little path comes out onto the path that is marked yellow/red and blue too. Turn right and follow it back to the car park. It's a wonderful walk, full of magical forest, twinkling streams, flowers, butterflies, red squirrels, deer and the best views you can imagine. Just very lovely.