The Alpes Maritimes is in the South East of Alpes Maritimes, bounded by Italy on the east and the Mediterranean Sea on the south and surrounding the independent principality of Monaco.

Nice is the capital. Here you will find a long established hang-gliding and paragliding businesses that the warm dry climate and three hundred sunny days a year provides the perfect weather conditions for the sport, with a vast range of other outdoor activities, ranging from fishing and pony trekking to cycling, walking, rock-climbing and canyon-ing, this area makes an ideal tourist destination for the sun worshiper to the beginner to the advanced sport enthusiast

The tiny hamlet of Les Basses Beaumettes, situated near the village of Saint Auban.

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