| Walking possibilities from Orcival include trips to Lac de Servières and Lac de Guéry. The first takes two and a half hours, the second some five hours. For Lac de Servières, follow the GR141–30 south through the woods above the valley of the Sioule. The lake is a beauty; it's 1200m up, with gently sloping shores surrounded by pasture and conifers. You can either head southeast to the gîte d'étape at Pessade (tel 04.73.79.31.07), or continue to the larger Lac de Guéry, lent a slightly eerie air by the black basaltic boulders strewn across the surrounding meadows, where there's a romantically situated lakeside hotel, the Lac de Guéry (tel 04.73.65.02.76, fax 04.73.65.08.78; €40–55; closed mid-Oct to mid-Jan; restaurant from €15). If you're driving to Le Mont-Dore, only 9km further on from here, just before the Lac de Guéry, the road takes you round the head of the Fontsalade valley, where two prominent rocks composed of banks of basalt organ-pipes rise spectacularly from the woods: the Roche Tuilière and the Roche Sanadoire. A Chamina footpath takes you on a two-hour walk round the valley, starting from the roadside belvedere overlooking Sanadoire. A little higher up, on the bare slopes of the Puy de l'Aiguiller, a roadside memorial commemorates some English airmen killed in an accident while making a parachute drop to the maquis in March 1944.
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