Salon — Luberon & Lavender: private taxi tour

One of the most beautiful days in Provence. We leave Salon and head to Pertuis, capital of the South Luberon. Then Lourmarin, listed among the most beautiful villages of France. Camus spent his last summers in a house you can glimpse from the street, and he is buried in the village's little cemetery. Renaissance château, shaded main square, terrace cafés. After lunch or a coffee, we climb to Gordes. The village clings to its cliff like a nest, and from the viewpoint on the departmental road the view is the one photographed a thousand times: dry-stone houses piled up, pink tile roofs, cypress sentinels. I let you walk to the Notre-Dame de Sénanque Abbey, alone at the bottom of its valley. Cistercian monks still live there, and the sung mass at noon is worth the trip. And from June to mid-July, the lavender fields in front of the abbey offer the most photographed scene in Provence, still as moving as ever. Back to Salon through the Calavon valley. Call +33 6 98 46 63 34.