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How to get there

Introduction and history

Dangers

Visit, arrival and schedules

Visit of the abbey

Mont Saint Michel-Getting there




Normandy main page

Landing sites memorials 1

Landing sites memorials 2

Rouen

Bayeux

Honfleur

Cote Fleurie

Cabourg

Houlgate

Trouville

Deauville

Dieppe

Le Havre

Etretat

Fecamp

Pays d'Auge, Calvados, Camembert and Cider

You have three itineraries if you drive a car. 
-(336 km), the shortest but not the quickest is by passing Dreux and Alençon, taking the N 12 at Pré-en-Pail you take the N 176 passing Domfront and Saint-Hilaire -du-Harcouet. 
-(365 km) passing Evreux, Lisieux, Caen and Avranches. Get out of Paris by taking the A 13.
-(373 km), the longest but the quickest. Take the autoroute A 11 until Laval, then the D 30 passing Fougères and Antrain.

Taking the train:
All depart from the gare Montparnasse, with two itineraries at choice. 
-Take the Granville line, get off at Folligny where the correspondence with Pontorson is assured at the arrival of certain trains.
-the second one, much more practical, is to take the TGV to Rennes, (2 h journey). From Rennes, two possibilities: take the bus to the Mont-Saint-Michel (1 h 30 journey, "Courriers Bretons", tel 0233601143 or take a train to Pontorson, 9 km from the Mont where a shuttle takes you to the Mont Saint Michel. 
If you have good legs and no luggage, you can rent a bike at Pontorson station, tel 0233600035.