Montagne du Lubéron Travel Guide

On your way down from Fort Buoux you can walk down the way you came - which is recommended for elderly people, pregnant women and small children - or you can walk down the hidden stairs. The first part didn't really look like stairs at all and there was quite a bit of rubble so you had to watch your step!

Fort Buoux covers quite a big area on this mountain outcrop. In the old days you must have been able to see the fort from miles around. When you go down the hidden stairs you can actually get to that big cave you can see in the photo.

Actually the ruins of Fort Buoux are not that well preserved. Much of it was torn down many many years ago. But you can see a lot any way. Ramparts, the fort walls, a church, houses, water tanks and big corn silos among other things.

Another great walk in the Luberon Mountains is around the ruins of Fort Buoux. It costs a small amount to see the ruins. Actually you walk right through the front garden of the house to the people who take care of the place. (They have 2 lovely cute cats).
Wouldn't you love to have a view like this in your front garden?
In the stoneage the ground underneath that overhanging rock was home to many people. There are also many ancient graves there.

You could walk the path all the way across the Luberon Mountains but we only walked to the end of the canyon and turned back.
The track was a bit difficult, some place you had to climb up huge boulders and use a lot of strenght in your fingers.
But I did it and I'm not very agile. But you do have to be in quite good shape.

It took quite a while to walk through this narrow passage. I would definitely not recommend it if you suffer from claustrophobia. When you looked up you could see huge rocks hanging over your head between the cliff walls.

Soon the canyon got very narrow - only a couple of metres - and there were lots of caves in the steep cliff walls. Some of them were quite easy to get to. But a bit into the canyon it got even more narrow. At some places it was only 1 metre wide I think! It is perhaps a bit difficult to see in the photo but there is actually a passage there! (When we got to this place we actually thought we had come the end of the path - it was so narrow that we didn't spot the passage at first!)

After a trip to Aix-en-Provence we were driving back to our rented house in Maubec when we spotted a small sign pointing to "Gorges du Regalon". We thought we'd have a look. So we got out of the car and after walking along a dry creek bed for a little while this is what we saw. Very beautiful!