Pleasure Tour Signal de Botrange - The Big Fen Loop

Description

Starting from Signal de Botrange, we walk to the viewing platform of Walloon Fen, from where you can enjoy an incredible view out over the heath and moor landscape.
We follow the path on the left which winds its way along the fen, using the wooden footbridges built on piles above the moor: the heritage of a construction technique which was already being used in the early Middle Ages on a route that led through the Fens, the via Mansuerisca. At Les Wez we're in the middle of nowhere, right in the heart of the nature reserve. What vastness!
A place at which travellers surely shuddered, only to breathe a sigh of relief when they discovered the inn at Baraque-Michel. You return via Poleur Fen, where traces of human activity from more than a hundred years ago are still visible today. The discovery tour continues at Neur Lowé, a microcosm in itself which is home to all the plant species from the plateau of the High Fens.

Signposting: blue rectangle, blueberry logo
Parking: Signal of Botrange
Equipment: classic hiking shoes, bring water and a picnic