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Hi Peregrinos,
I´m having a hard time deciding my route from Vézelay.
I can either walk the official Vézelay route (the Via Lemovicensis), or I can walk from Vézelay to Cluny, then from Cluny to Le Puy.
Little update on this thread. As you know I decided to go through the Morvan. It was very dry there (usually it's more humid) and warm. The vistas were good, I thought the Morvan was pretty but not spectacular.
Got a bit of very dry, hot trail afterwards with a lot of pastures and mainly hills. Can't say I enjoyed that, but perhaps that's because most of my Via Campaniensis had looked like that and I needed to see broad horizons/have vistas. I was really second-guessing my decision to walk the Le Puy route.
After Saint Leon, the area got very, very green compared to the rest of the country (even compared to the Morvan) and near the borders of Puy de Dome spectacular vistas on the national parks.
However!
Voie Le Puy is not for the faint-hearted. Prepare for difficult ascends and descends. Plenty of GR-3 trail is indistinguishable from a river bed, one of those wild-rapid-river beds but without the water. Lots of loose stone.
Can't say more about the Le Puy route because I've done the first and second section of it and am now continuining on the Via Alvernha (Clermont-Rocamadour-Cahors).
... There was some road walking, yes, St Astier comes to mind, but not an unbearable amount.
Thanks so much!Hi Frauke!
To be honest it's hard to remember. But I hate asphalt, so I think that if there was many, I would have remembered. There are mainly dirt roads and some asphalt after Troyes, but never big roads (small ones with very little traffic).
You can download the gpx track and load it into an app like Pocket Earth (I recommend it, but it's not free) to see where the asphalt bits are. Or I think you can also view it in Google maps (with kmz files).
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