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The one excursion that makes a Marseille port day worth the fuel burn is the Calanques National Park boat cruise departing straight from the Vieux-Port. Nothing else on the French coast delivers this particular drama: a 12-mile wall of blinding-white limestone cliffs plunging into fjord-like turquoise inlets, threaded by a National-Park-authorized boat that leaves from Quai des Belges, literally steps from where most cruise ships tie up.

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