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Trôs Maret Bach
Photo: Pierre Pauquay, CC BY, East Belgium Tourist Agency
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Les Chodires
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Les Chodires torrent
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Monument Frédéricq
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Fagne de Fraineu
Photo: Jörg Weishaupt, East Belgium Tourist Agency
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Les 6 hêtres
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Les Chodires
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Fagne de Fraineu
Photo: Pierre Pauquay, CC BY, East Belgium Tourist Agency
A hike on which you can discover the many different ecosystems of the fen plateau.
open
moderate
15 km
4:02 h
216 m
216 m
After just a few hundred metres we enter the fen territory. In front of us lies Fraineu Fen, wonderful and still pristine. Thanks to the LIFE project, it was possible in other places to rid more than 300 hectares (740 acres) of heath and moor of spruce trees, thus increasing the open areas by a considerable amount. In this boggy heathland, the Trôs-Marets, a genuine mountain stream, rises.
The Trôs-Marets will accompany us throughout this hike. After a few wooden footbridges we come to the remains of the 'Cabane du Négus'. A hermit lived here in the years around 1950. We leave the heathland and come to the 'Six Hêtres' (Six Beeches) in the forest, a place at which shepherds rested in former times. Another astonishing place is the marshland of the 'Chôdires', populated with birch, alder and trembling poplar. A little further on, the wild, the foaming Trôs-Marets effervesces along beside us, emphasising the wild character of this beautiful hike.
Author’s recommendation
Possibilities to stop off for some refreshment at the centre of Malmedy.
Author
Tourismusagentur Ostbelgien
Updated: January 23, 2020
Difficulty
moderate
Technique
Stamina
Experience
Landscape
Highest point
625 m
Lowest point
480 m
Best time of year
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Safety information
A long hike through different landscapes, rather for experienced hikers. Dogs must be kept on a leash.
At the level of the N 68, at the crossing from Xhoffraix to Hockai. Start: from the N68, about 200m on the road to Hockai, follow the path to the right. (551 m)
Coordinates:
DD
50.464335, 6.055683
DMS
50°27'51.6"N 6°03'20.5"E
UTM
32U 291045 5594402
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Destination
At the level of the N 68, at the crossing from Xhoffraix to Hockai.