In full heart of the Cevennes National Park, the village of L'Hom is located between several natural areas with very various landscapes : Méjean causse, the Cevennes, Gorges of Jonte and Gorges of Tarn. A wild country, with rich diversified wildlife.
The Méjean Causse is a broad limestone plateau, country of sheep (meat production or milk : Roquefort...), of the carline with acanthus leaves, of the orchids... The landscapes combine the beauty of the steppes with the charm of the ruiniform sites such as the Chaos of Nimes Le Vieux.
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The Cevennes are a country of shistose plateaus full of peat-bogs and dug by beautiful savage deep valleys where runs a crystalline water. Country of chestnut, of holm oak, of mulberry tree, of Pélardon, it's an inexhaustible source of discoveries
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The Cevennes are a country of shistose plateaus full of peat-bogs and dug by beautiful savage deep valleys where runs a crystalline water. Country of chestnut, of holm oak, of mulberry tree, of Pélardon, it's an inexhaustible source of discoveries
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Aim walking :
Footpath of Nîmes-le-Vieux (4 km) arranged by the Cevennes National Park, between Hom and Gally, a concentrate of the Méjean Causse.- The Tour of Méjean : walking of several days (5~6) on the Footpath of Causse to discover the spectacle of a territory worked by the pastoral life, with its large herds of ewe and its farms, true wonders of architecture, its menhirs and dolmens, traces of an old past.
The cliff footpaths, populated by fawn-coloured vultures, let you discover typical cliffs and villages in the heart of a wild land. They will offer a complete expatriation to you with the impression to walk in open sky.
( To discover the Tour of Méjean, click on the map to enlarge picture 
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