Camargue - Drive

The most favorable starting-points for a drive through the Camargue are Arles and St-Gilles. Road D570 coming from Arles - which is joined after 15km/9mi near Albaron by the D37 from St-Gilles - leads southwest and ends in Stes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Initially the road runs through acres of sunflowers and rice-fields; as it nears the sea the landscape becomes more steppe-like and halophytes - plants well suited to the salty soil - take over.