The town of Puget-Theniers is around 2km drive from the site. This small traditional village is a typically French style with a river running through its squares and narrow streets, with cafes, restaurants and a Sunday market. There is a railway station with good connections and also a steam train that runs every week taking tourists from Puget-Theniers to Annot and back.

The awe-inspiring medieval village at Entrevaux is a ‘must-see’ experience just 10 minutes drive from Origan. It’s for anyone who likes the idea of a charming village that could come straight from a film set with its own fortress built under King Louis XIV in 1860. Access is via a large footbridge where you enter through an archway with its own watch towers, into winding alleyways shaded by tall narrow houses, squares, drawbridges and ramparts.  Walking is plentiful and splendid in the whole area and for just 3 euros you can enter the Citadel which is built into the side of a narrow rocky spur and girded by the River Var.

Away from Origan Nice, Monaco, Cannes and Grasse (the perfume capital of France) are reachable. For those with transport, Perfumerie Galimard, a factory with free guided tours, museum, and shop lies between Nice and Monaco.