Outdoor France

France is a big country; and it is a country where the countryside is big. On the other hand, as an

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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". For anyone wishing to escape from city life and find rural peace and quite, almost any part of rural France will fit the bill; but there are areas of France that are more deeply rural, and less populated than others. In particular, there is a large swathe of France, running from the Belgian border in the north east, to the Pyrenees in the south west, that is unofficially known as la diagonale du vide (the diagonal of emptiness), which contains many of the least populated areas of France (other than high mountain areas), plenty of wide open spaces, and ample opportunity for hiking, rambling , cycling and outdoor activities. This diagonal can be seen on the map opposite. More...http://about-france.com