France's wild parts

With twice the surface area of Great Britain, and about the same population, France is a country

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with plenty of countryside. Away from the big urban areas round Paris, Lyon and the north of France, France is essentially a rural country, with plenty of wide open spaces. This is particularly the case in the hill country of central southern and central eastern France. The great uplands of the Massif Central, the Jura and the foothills of the Alps offer a wealth of opportunities for visitors wanting to "get away from it all". France is a big country; and it is a country where the countryside is big. On the other hand, as an old country, where humans have worked the land for over two thousand years, it is a country where much of the "natural" environment has been shaped - for better or worse - by the hand of man. There is little in the way of genuine "wilderness area" in France, such as one can find in the USA or Canada; but that is not to say that there is no such thing as "wild France". There are plenty of parts of this large country which remain, to this day, relatively wild and untamed, and a destination worth seeking out by nature lovers, ramblers and adepts of the "great outdoors".