Hi guys welcome to another episode of Ultimate Bucket List, and on today's show I'm here
at the Calanques National Par,k one of the prettiest national parks you'll come to
here in France. It's relatively little known in Europe and is not really a
major tourist attraction but it's incredibly beautiful and I highly
recommend that you come here once in your life the National Park is vast and
several places that you could go to actually see this thing I decided to
come to Callelongue which is the closest section of the National Park to
Marseille now it's dead easy to get to simply get on a bus from Castellane
metro station take the number 19 bus all the way to the end of the line and then
take the number 20 to the end of the line and you'll roughly get to the foot
of the Calanques national park but halfway in between you actually
stopped off here the town of mont rose this is a sleepy french fishing village
but as you can tell from my drill footage it's actually very picturesque
there's plenty of things to look at whether it's the rustic scenery or this
fishing village or climbing the rocks that form the sea barrier it's actually
all pretty damn interesting and it's a lovely stop off point so that you're not
sitting at a bus stop it's actually quite cool to walk around and explore
the place but anyway once you get back on the number twenty bus enjoyed the
scenic bus tour because it shows you some various beautiful sights but when
the bus drops you off you're left with some stunning views literally all around
you you're literally on the coast and here at this amazing lookout point you
can see some amazing sights as you can tell from this footage it's actually
pretty awesome from the air as well seriously this is actually what it looks
like and no matter what direction you look at it's actually very pretty you
would think that you're in Colorado was something with these rocks but you're
not you're actually in the South of France and you can tell because of these
crystal blue waters the rocky coves it's actually very very nice indeed this is
the town of Callalongue itself and as you can imagine it's a small town on the foot of
the hills this is lovely French restaurant that's all the locals and
tourists kind of congregate around but in general the town itself well there's
not really much to it so I highly recommend that you don't spend too much
time exploring that having said that you'll still need to walk through the
town in order to get to the public footpaths which are all perfectly
signposted it will tell you which way to go for which rocks so that's quite handy
one thing they don't tell you is that it's steep holy crap guys is really
tiring climbing over here if you like exercise and you want to do
explore natural beauty this place definitely does have it this is just
like being in Sedona all over again except that the the rocks are white not
red but generally the same kind of thing I'm seriously not kidding it can get
pretty steep and pretty treacherous in some places but the views more than make
up for the massive amount of effort to climb up here guys
take a look at that holy cow what a great view
definitely worth climbing up for seriously holy so I decided to climb as
far as I humanly could open to the point where that big rock went vertical and
decided to fire up my drone in the strong winds to try and get some footage
show you where a map done off the audio is working but here is where my view is
now cool so the footage looks pretty cool I gotta admit but one flying the
drone I noticed this hood on another hill and you know what seems though I'm
here I might as well go and see what that thing is climbing down towards the
hood is a lot easier than trying to climb up that big hill I highly
recommend that you stick to the footpath and not try and make your own path and
risk life and limb like I did I'm not entirely sure what this foot is from a
distance and even when you get close to it
you're still pretty much not sure what this thing actually is when you do
finally climb up to it you'll be well disappointed because there's really
nothing better it looks fairly freshly plastered so I don't know if they're
making this into a an exhibit or a security hut or some kind of Depot I
don't know but whatever it is it's pretty empty but that doesn't detract
away from the Oh egg hello fellow photographer it doesn't attract away
from the fact that you have a 360-degree view of the collect National Park from
here that big rock that I've just climbed up and where I started there on
the ground take some time to absorb the views here guys
this is a lovely stop off point and I highly recommend that you stop off here
and take some lovely pictures before the clonk line down
sometimes the passed on immediately obvious so you just go to have to decide
which way to go left all right and hopefully whichever way you go lead
you to the place that you want to go me I'm a lefty I'm going left now
admittedly this is just tell alum just one section of the Calanques National Park
there's actually several places that you can go to and admittedly I didn't have
time to explore them for so on the screen is some footage of various other
parts of the Calanques should you choose to go there and also how to get there with
public transport. One thing that I do definitely want to see is Cassis this is
a town that's on the complete opposite side of the calanque and it looks
absolutely amazing I think you need to take a train here from Marseille but if
I had a few more days and I will be back here someday and definitely checking
this place out in a lot more detail okay Nate I'm sold what do I do
well you need to come here to the Clack National Forest it's situated right here
in Marseille and the public transport network is actually quite good so
getting here really isn't that much of a problem to get here
you take the number 19 bus from castellane metro station ride it until
the end of the line and then get on plus 20 and ride in spoons all the
end-of-line so this place is pretty easy to find with public transport if you're
driving it's very very straightforward but the roads down here are pretty
narrow so bad I mind if you are driving as the roads can get quite bumpy and
quite narrow the cost to do this it's completely free of charge they don't
charge like the Grand Canyon and to be honest yeah absolutely fantastic is
there anything else I need to know yes various parts of it are very very steep
so better I might when you're coming here and even though technically we're
on the Mediterranean and it's lovely and sunny today the weather can change here
quite quickly as well so better in mind if you are coming here we're outdoorsy
gear and I think you'll be absolutely fine
it's very gravely in place and you'll slip and slide a lot so if you're not a
big fan of taking over the steep bits like me um
stick to the past you'll be okay I highly recommend that you do this once
in your life especially if you could hit some are saying if you liked this video
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you very much for watching I will see you in the next episode definitely worth
definitely definitely worth share don't know what sort of it really is lovely
here I'm not kidding sometimes I'm guilty of not sitting back
and enjoying what I'm doing because I'm too busy phone filming for you guys but
yeah oh man this is totally pretty
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