24 detailed hiking tours with good detailed maps and elevation profiles, free GPS tracks for download, and many tips and addresses around the Gorges de l'Ardèche and the Chauvet Cave, which features the oldest cave drawings in the world. The Ardèche is an ancient and historically rich cultural landscape, but it has been little discovered by German tourism so far. Mostly, only canoeists are familiar with the rivers Ardèche, Beaume, or Chassezac. However, the Ardèche department has much more to offer than just whitewater. The famous limestone gorges of the rivers and the garrigue-covered plateaus, along with the remote mountains, provide a variety of fantastic hiking trails.