Round the Etangs at Peyriac de Mer. A coastal walk in the Languedoc.

Round the Etangs at Peyriac de Mer. 6km. The walk on the tops is about 8km. Yellow markers in part, 2H. This is a beautiful walk with lovely views all around the route. Wonderful birds on the Etangs and beautiful wild flowers too.

Park in the centre of the village beside the water and you will see the walks board to the left of the play area. Take the boardwalk and follow it until it comes to a right turn at a wall. Follow the wall pass a stone building(information centre) to another car park.

If you want to do the longer walk on the hill, exit the car park through the gate and take the upper path on your right(this path has views down to Bages and there are a number of paths that you can follow. If you want to walk beside the water stay on the lower track on your right. This path stays beside the Etang with vineyards to your left and the water on your right. Finally you come to a place where you will see a yellow cross. 

Go straight on past the cross and keep beside the water. The path eventually goes up to the top of the hill and joins the upper path near a yellow sign post. Keep straight on and cross the little road at the top. Follow the wooden post along the top of the hill. The views in both directions are wonderful here, out to see and back to Peyriac de Mer. 

The track bares right and past views of the little beach. You can go down for a picnic on the beach (not yesterday as it was so windy we could hardly stand). We followed the yellow markers over to the other hill. There is a way up to the viewpoint on your left if you want to (0.3km). Otherwise continue on the little path as it comes down off the hill and joins the road at the causeway. 

Now you can either go back to the car park across the causeway or take the little path beside the Etang on your right. The path finally crosses a little bridge. After this you go up over the hill and cross the Etang to complete the walk on the lower path.Return the same way.  

(There is another route around the edge of the etang after the little wooden bridge but it's closed for the spring as the birds are nesting and the boardwalk is closed on this side as it's broken in two places at the moment.