The Transgaumaise with the mountain bike

Program

Day 1

Latour
We welcome you in Latour (Virton) in the afternoon and hand over your complete file. Evening meal included.

Day 2

Latour (Virton) – Villers-devant-Orval (68 km; +1183 m)
For this first stage, you leave the hotel after breakfast for one of Wallonia’s most beautiful villages, Torgny, which you reach at km 25. Be careful, the beginning of the stage is quite hilly. You then cross the French border to Montmédy, a town overlooked by a medieval castle. You continue the day on footpaths to the village of Avioth and its splendid basilica, finishing with a tasting of one of Belgium’s best beers at Orval Abbey.

Possibility of shortening the stage to 54 km by taking the road between the villages of Velosnes and Villécloye.

Day 3

Villers-devant-Orval – Lacuisine (40 km; + 468 m)
This stage is relatively short but really splendid. You leave Orval to cross the border and will stay in France for the first 15 kilometres. Back in Belgium, the trail takes you to the heart of the Semois Valley National Park. You’ll follow the meandering river through a series of pretty villages: Sainte-Cécile, Chassepierre,… At the end of the stage, you arrive at Lacuisine, a small village on the banks of the Semois a few kilometers from Florenville.

Day 4

Lacuisine – Latour (Virton) (40 km; + 487 m)
This final stage is not long, but it does include a fairly steep climb out of Meix-devant-Virton at around km 25. First you leave Lacuisine and head for Izel and Jamoigne, staying on the Gaume high plateau, then head south into the Gaume Nature Park. As you approach Virton, you branch off to get to your car at the end of the route. Congratulations on completing a 148 km mountain bike loop. Possibility of an extra night before leaving.