Welcome to Hooked on Walking Holidays and our walking holidays in France. This particular hiking vacation in France is a level 2 self guided walking tour. This walking tour is a jaunt of several days in the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Reserve, classed as a world nature site by the UNESCO Biosphere. As you travel along shaded trails you will discover the numerous ancient churches, fortified castles, military remains of the Maginot Line. You will see the sandstone summits covered with magnificent forests of fir, beech or pine.

Available daily March to October
Level 2 self guided tour

Day 1 Wissembourg.
Arrival in Wissembourg, north of Strasbourg. After settling into the hotel why not take a tour of the old town and museum.

Day 2 Wissembourg - Lembach 12.5 miles 20 km.
Today your walk departs via the Col du Pigeonnier towards the Pfaffenschlick and the Soultzerkopf Arrival in Lembach where the Four  Chaux, a former fortress of the Maginot Line, is situated.

Day 3 Lembach – Nieders teinbach 10.6 miles 17 Km or Lembach – Obersteinbach 12.5 miles 20 Km.
Today seems to be castle day as you walk takes you via the castles of Loewenstein and Hohenbourg. Later a little further into the walk you pass the Castle of Fleckenstein which was formerly one of the most imposing in the Vosges.

Day 4 Nieders teinbach-Niederbronn 12.5 km 20 Km or Obersteinbach-Niederbronn 10.6 miles 17 Km.
Today on your walk you will walk past the Castle of Schoeneck followed by the climb of the Grand Wintersberg, highest point in the Northern Vosges at an altitude of 581m. Soon you shall arrive at the spa town of Niederbronn-les-Bains via the Dittenthal and the Celtic Encampment.

Day 5 Niederbronn – Reipertswiller 12.5 miles 20 Km or Niederbronn – Ingwiller 12.5 miles 20 Km.
Today more castles of the wonderful region. The Castle of Wasenbourg overlooks the Niederbronn valley. You continue by the romantic remains of the Grand Arnsbourg. Then you shall descend via Untermuehlthal into the village of Reipertswiller.

Day 6 Reipertswiller-La Petite Pierre 13.5 miles 22Km or Ingwiller - La Petite Pierre 11 miles 18 Km.
Setting our today you will come across the Castle of Lichtenberg restored by Vauban in 1680 and transformed again in the 19th century. Then you continue via the villages of Wimmenau and Erckartswiller to La Petite Pierre, a village of forests centred on its castle which is also the headquarters of the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Reserve.

Day 7 La Petite Pierre – Saverne 13 miles 21 Km.
Once again a famous castle. The Castle of Hunebourg is a neo-Romanesque style castle , followed by the remains of the Daubenschlagfels. Soon this is followed by descent towards Saint-Jean-ls-Saverne and its 12th Century abbey church. Arrival in Saverne.

Day 8 Saverne
Exploration of Saverne an old town with the Maison Katz and the imposing neo-classical Rohan castle. Then your departure.

Accommodation: A combination of 2 and 3 star hotels and country inns.

Difficulty: A level 2 self guided tour

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How to get there
By train to Strasbourg or flight to Paris and train to Strasbourg and onto Wissemboug.

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