Transhumance 2026 (Année Internationale des parcours et des éleveurs pastouraux)
This route does not return to its starting point, and no station or stop is listed at the other end: plan to come back the same way, about 29.2 km in total.
Accompagner les éleveurs.ses dans leur transhumance entre vignes et garrigues !
- 💧 5 drinking water points mapped on the route (OpenStreetMap)
At a glance
14.6 km point-to-point route starting from Banyuls-sur-Mer station, 15 minutes' walk from the platform. Allow 4h54 of walking, 604 m of ascent, estimated difficulty: moderate. 5 drinking water points are mapped on the route.
Description provided by Geotrek PyMed (Pyrenees-Mediterranee), in French; the rest is a summary generated from the route data.
Getting there by train and bus
This route links two stations: you can walk it in either direction, without coming back to where you started.
- Banyuls-sur-Mer station start · 15 min walk
- Port-Vendres station start · 24 min walk (walking time measured on the IGN footpath network)
- Port-Vendres - Paulilles RD 914 bus stop start · 23 min walk (walking time measured on the IGN footpath network)
Travel time from the main stations
- Toulouse Matabiau 2h43 by train
- Montpellier Saint-Roch 2h28 by train
- Nîmes 3h07 by train
- Perpignan 28 min by train
- Béziers 1h39 by train
- Carcassonne 1h59 by train
Indicative times from SNCF GTFS data. Actual times, there and back, are worked out on the interactive map.
Other hikes from Banyuls-sur-Mer
Data source
Data produced by Geotrek PyMed (Pyrenees-Mediterranee), updated on 26 February 2026
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