Half Day Lavender Road in Sault from Avignon
Avignon, France
- 5 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
Overview
From mid-June to mid-August, depending on the year of flowering, the fertile lavender fields of Sault are widely considered among the most popular sights in Provence. This convenient 5-hour combination bus and walking tour from Avignon takes you to the heart of France’s lavender country. Stroll along rows of purple lavender, visit a local lavender farm, and enjoy personal attention from your guide on this small-group tour.
- Choose a morning or afternoon tour
- Visit the town of Sault — famous for its fertile lavender fields — with a guide
- Walk along rows of purple lavender and smell the fragrance on the air
- Learn how essential oils are extracted from the plants at a lavender farm
What's Included
- Driver/guide
- Transport by air-conditioned minivan
- Food and drinks
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Office de Tourisme d'Avignon41 Cr Jean Jaurès, 84000 Avignon, France
Please meet your driver-guide in front of the Avignon Tourism Office.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
Choose an 8:30am or 2:30pm tour between mid-June and mid-August — when the lavender fields are in bloom. Then, begin with a pickup at the Avignon tourist office and head out into the Provence countryside with your guide.
First, visit the town of Sault—widely considered to be the French capital of lavender—and enjoy free time to capture the rolling hillsides on camera. Stroll among the rows of purple flowers, and inhale the heady scent for which lavender is famous.
Then, visit a local lavender farm and learn how the essential oils are extracted from the plants. Afterward, explore the surrounding countryside further with your guide before returning to your original starting point—where your tour comes to an end.
First, visit the town of Sault—widely considered to be the French capital of lavender—and enjoy free time to capture the rolling hillsides on camera. Stroll among the rows of purple flowers, and inhale the heady scent for which lavender is famous.
Then, visit a local lavender farm and learn how the essential oils are extracted from the plants. Afterward, explore the surrounding countryside further with your guide before returning to your original starting point—where your tour comes to an end.
1
Sault
1 hour • Admission Ticket Free
2
Gordes
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
3
Abbaye Notre-Dame de Senanque
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
- Infant seats available
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Minimum numbers apply: 2. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there are not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
Traveler Photos
Featured review
LoganSmith_P
We had the best afternoon lavender tour with Thierry! He went above and beyond to ensure we had a wonderful outing and was so much fun to chat with. Lots of knowledgeable and all around such a nice person. It was a great day!
Reviews
4.2
based on 35 reviews
Michael_E, Jul 2025
Make sure that there have not been drought conditions before you book. The fields were a tad underwhelming, but the trip was fun. Great guide.
Wei_S, Jul 2024
Our guide Frederic is very nice and helpful!
However, the tour date can’t be changed even with the severe weather condition (the day we visited had a thunderstorm warning), would recommend to book the trip on the travel date or few days in advance in the tourist center, price also cheaper there.
LoganSmith_P, Jul 2023
We had the best afternoon lavender tour with Thierry! He went above and beyond to ensure we had a wonderful outing and was so much fun to chat with. Lots of knowledgeable and all around such a nice person. It was a great day!
Sheryl_T, Jul 2023
David is an excellent tour guide who gave a great introduction to lavender, Sault and Gordes. The van is with adequate air conditioning. And thanks to David who drove safely, we have enjoyed a cozy trip. Some of the lavenders have been harvested already, so I think it’d be better if we come earlier. We visited in late July.
Qing_D, Jul 2023
Not sure whether this year is not a good year for lavender sightseeing, but most of the lavender fields looked kind of light purple, nothing like what you see in postcards or some of the pictures on the internet. These four pictures were taken on July 10th in Sault. As you can see, the colors are not so impressive. That being said, the tour itself is good. The only thing that I would like to change is that less time spent at the lavender distillery. Overall, it’s an efficient way to see lavender fields without a car.
Yanan_W, Jul 2023
Very good trip, thanks to our guide. We enjoyed all the sightseeing. Hordes lavender and mountain small town like sault
Robert_G, Jun 2023
Nice trip to lavender fields. However trip had side trip to Luberron and Gardes which wasn’t on the description. Nice towns to visit but we had already seen .
Christy_C, Jul 2022
The tour guide was so nice! The van was a little bit hot because there were 7 of us in a van. But the tour was amazing!:)
Flavien_P, Jul 2022
Although all lavender fields were cut off already, Marie made it her mission to find us the very last one -and she succeeded! We had a great afternoon with here discovering the region.
CHEAH_L, Jul 2022
Boring of the trip, lavendar field too small. Vehicle aircon very hot. Not worth it........
*how do you expect us to locatd the driver guide without signboard, without name tag.....
Noemi_C, Jun 2022
Nicolas was the best guide ever! He is such a nice guy, always paying attention to their guests needs. He planned the tour with us before leaving to enjoy it better!! Nicolas told us a lot of interesting things about lavanders fields and really made our day
Nicole, Jul 2020
Amazing experience!! Our tour guide Nicolas was so nice during the whole trip! Helped us with good picture locations and explained everything about lavender to us!
Kiryl_M, Jun 2020
Our morning tour has been confirmed but then cancelled by the company without any notification! We have found out it is cancelled only after contacting them at 11 pm (during the day and the evening they were not picking up the phone) to actually confirm the pickup location.
Awful service, please avoid! There is a plenty of other companies who would treat you better
June B, Aug 2019
A wonderful afternoon tour of the lavender fields, distillery and lavender ice cream in a beautiful area.
MarioneYolene, Jul 2019
I have fully experienced Lavender during this tour - Sight, Smell, Hear, Feel and Taste (yes thumbs up for lavender ice cream). Our tour guide, Nicolas, is very great and knowledgeable about the lavender, the village of Sault and Avignon as whole. We get to learn MORE than we expect to. I would highly recommend this tour especially our tour guide Nicolas. Can’t wait to come back.
Mariana_B, Jul 2019
The tour description was as follows:
First, visit the town of Sault — widely considered to be the French capital of lavender — and enjoy free time to capture the rolling hillsides on camera. Stroll among the rows of purple flowers, and inhale the heady scent for which lavender is famous. Then, visit a local lavender farm and learn how the essential oils are extracted from the plants. Afterward, explore the surrounding countryside further with your guide before returning to your original starting point — where your 5-hour tour will come to an end.
This tour did NOT visit neither Sault NOR a local lavender farm!!! Instead, we visited Roussillon (which I have visited on another tour as planned).
This was very disappointing and I want to be refunded since neither of the 2 sites that I wanted to visit was on the program as advertised.
Hajnalka_F, Jun 2018
great way to discover Luberon area, kind tour operator, we were always in time and she dropped us down where we asked.
florachingching, Jul 2017
The tour was a bit too rush.
As it is named as a Lavender Fields Tour, I would expect more time in the lavender fields, but turn out only 10 mins in one lavender field, then rush to another field for 10 mins. I would prefer they skip the villages, and just stay in the fields to admire the views and smell the lavenders.
Kim_L, Jul 2016
A great tour - lovely French scenery. Four of us took the TGV from Lyon to Avignon TGV station where we were picked up by our guide Thierry. We did 2 more pick ups then off to the countryside. Thierry was extremely knowledgeable and although we asked him a question he didn't know the answer to immediately - as soon as he could he got us the answer. The lavender fields were just magnificent but the whole area is spectacular - a well worth trip to get a real good feel of the French countryside. Gold star to Thierry
WeiLun_C, Jul 2015
Our driver Florine was great and I'd recommend the tour.
Robert C, Jul 2015
Due to a disease, apparently, we saw no big fields of lavender in the first half. All were just cut and dried out. Not very interesting and it seemed like endless driving around. The second half was better and we saw lavender. I would have preferred to drive out, see the village of Sault a little longer and the come back the by same road instead of the circular route. That would have meant more time to see lavender fields, which is what we paid for. It could have been better if the itinerary was more flexible to cater for the situation.
Enrico C, Jul 2015
The guide was very friendly, helpful and humorous. He took care of every traveller.The path that he guided us is very interesting. He explained everything in a good way.
Kasturi Mohan D, Jun 2015
The tour started promptly. Surprisingly we had a full house in the 8 seater. The van was very comfortable for all of us. One request though, it would be better if the driver/guide Eric had some sort of a microphone so that he could talk to all of us without shouting or taking his eyes off the road.
He was very nice and took us to some fantastic places .. the Lavenders were in bloom far in Sault when we were there but he made sure we went to the best fields and had great picture opportunities.
As advertised, this tour is about Lavenders and only lavenders. The halts at Gordes and Sault village was very brief 10-15 minutes so that we could spend more time in Lavender fields. We could see Senanque Abbey from far off since there was not time !!
However, we were in this tour for Lavenders and we did the most possible in 5 hours. If you really want to spend time in Gordes and Sault and Lavender Museum etc. it is better to take a full day tour. But then that will be tiring !!
Great tour concept for those who only want to see Lavenders !!
Giacomo_C, Aug 2023
Visite bien organisée avec le professionnalisme du guide.
Minivan confortable avec clima.
J'ai pu visiter la partie nord de la Provence avec le charmant panorama et les camps de lavande. J'ai apprécié la fabrication de l'huile de lavande et les qualités du produit. Une belle journée.
Antonia_H, Jul 2023
Sehr schöne Tour, bei der auf die Bedürfnisse der Gruppe individuell eingegangen wird. Ich würde es wieder buchen.
Maria_A, Jul 2021
Esperienza fantastica, tour ben organizzato. Nicolas, la nostra guida, parlava inglese in maniera eccellente, spiegando ogni cosa nei minimi dettagli . Consigliatissimo! Nicolas is the best on the world!!!
mariannick_g, Aug 2020
Excellente balade belle découverte et du savoir-faire joli connaissance et échange avec notre guide Nicolas de Provence panorama meiveilleux personnage mérite d’etre Connu magnifique ville d’Avignon très bon séjour dans le sud Marie et Felix
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