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Flamingos as far as the eye can see 🦩🤩

Lost at the end of the world, just a few steps from home! No motor vehicles for more than 20 km, almost no one this morning of November 3. The colors, the birds, the plants, these reflections on the water, this light. It's simply magical! A serenity that is more than worth the detour.

When the wind dies down, there's a big heatstroke with swarms of mosquitoes...protect yourself so you can do this wonderful route!

Years ago I spent a lovely holiday here in Saint Marie de la Mer, if not the most lovely holiday in my life. I've been to Provence several times, visited La Grande Motte and the Pont du Gard, the Arena of Nimes, Avignon, Marseille and much more, it is beautiful here on the Mediterranean, have a nice holiday everyone. 🙋👍

Magnificent

The tour of the pond offers a natural and wild panorama with diverse fauna. Of course we are in the Camargue, so we come across numerous farms of more or less wild animals, horses and bulls, but also foxes, coypus... We are in marshes, the ornithological species are numerous, pink flamingos, storks, egrets for cite only the most emblematic ones. In short, landscape and wildlife offer an absolutely unique spectacle of nature

THE FLAMINGO The pink flamingo is one of the 340 species of birds Fauna of the Camargue. Probably the most fascinating bird. This largest colony of pink flamingos in the western Mediterranean has been breeding on a breeding island since the beginning of the 1970s in the Camargue. Scientists and nature lovers have created an extensive program to protect the flamingo and also to provide it with a comfortable habitat. The place where the flamingos nest was owned by the Compagnie des Salins du Midi until the end of 2008. Today this extraordinary area belongs to the Conservatoire du Littoral. The greatest vigilance is required to protect the reproduction, because the colony in the delta is exceptional and of worldwide notoriety (10 to 15,000 pairs annually). In order to observe the birds during their wedding parades, it is essential to follow the instructions of the staff of the nature park and the bird protection organization. In order not to disturb the peace of these very shy birds, it is not possible to visit the breeding island itself. Special tours of this area, unique in France, are offered from April to the end of September.

This is a gravel road, with a lot of potholes. Not suitable for road bikes