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The Petite Camargue (Little Camargue), on the West side of the actual Rhone delta, consists in an area that was formerly covered by dried arms of the Rhone, that flowed through the Languedoc, southly from the town of Beaucaire. Properly speaking, the Petite Camargue is a coastline triangle made of lagoons and salt marshes, running along the sea from the Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer to the Gulf of Lion, with Port-Camargue and Le Grau du Roi, and expanding into the lands, to cities such as Aigues-Mortes, Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze, Vauvert and Saint-Gilles. It is a short-cut salted land where tourism hardly troubled the wild side, and it is as appreciated for the Sun in Summer and thalassotherapy as for wanderings by foot or, even better, riding Camargue horses. For horses and bulls live there in breeding communities (the so-called “manades”), and a great variety of birds come there looking for food in the ponds, especially huge colonies of flamingos. Far enough from overcrowded Côte d'Azur, each curious tourist there can discover the pretty little villages in the land or, as (s)he calls, just easily enjoy the long sand beaches that make such a wonderful Mediterranean shore.
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