From the Chèr region into the Auvergne

4×4 journey in central France

This is a trip starting near Vierzon in the Département du Chèr in central France and then goes south into the Auvergne region, ending close to St. Flour. It takes you through the famous vulcano landscape of the Auvergne on small country roads, often unsurfaced. The views are beautiful and most of the time you will be completely by yourself.

Take at least nine days to drive the entire journey.
Total distance: 850 km.
On unsurfaced tracks: 50%

Note on the time the trip takes: you need nine days to follow the prepared itinerary at your leisure. You need more time if you visit all the sights.

Here is a video impression of the trip:

Visit interesting places

There are lots of interesting places to visit on or near the route. Many of these are indicated in the roadbook. You decide what you want to visit, thus allowing you to make this trip completely your own. You can deviate from the route as much and as often as you like and pick it up again later at any point you wish.

If you want the app to guide you to a place of interest that is in the roadbook, but not on the itinerary, you click it, then click Yes when the system asks you if you want to be guided to it. Google Maps will open and act as your navigation device. This requires you to be on-line.

You can do almost the entire trip with a regular four-wheel drive car on road tyres. There are some stretches where you might struggle in such a car, though even so they are not impossible to negotiate. However, you may want to check first when you get there. These stretches have all been marked in the roadbook. All roads and tracks have public right of way.

The nature of the journey

Because of the nature of the area you drive through (farm land, small villages), we’d like to ask you with some emphasis that you don’t travel with more than two cars. This is not a trip suitable for larger groups, which is one of the reasons we don’t offer it as a guided tour.

Then trip can be done all year round, though in winter you may have to take detours because of snow. The best time of year is spring and early summer (March up to the end of June) and autumn (September to end of November).

Overview of itinerary:

How to obtain

If you want to have this e-roadbook, do the following:

Add it to your shopping cart by clicking on the button you see near the top of your screen.
Go to Checkout and fill in all the fields of the order form.
Select your means of payment and pay.

We will be notified and will set up your user account for the app and the trip you have ordered. This may take a day.

When we have done so, you will receive an email, with links to the Apple Appstore and Google playstore. Click on the one you need according to the operating system of your device.

Download the app and log in with your username and password. After you have confirmed that you want to download the trip, it will load automatically into the app and you can use it.