Canoeing on the Dordogne
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- One of France's most celebrated rivers: wide, peaceful, calm, flat
- Excellent for families, easy for beginners, and lots of swimming opportunities
- Friendly hotels, all with pools; superb cuisine
- Excellent views all along the river: picturesque perched villages and troglodyte cave dwellings
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- 8 nights stay
- Continental breakfast and all evening meals
- Luggage transfers between hotels
- Canadian canoes or kayaks included
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Accommodation: Hotel de Meysset
Our 3-star hotel is a lovely country house, set in three acres of private pine woods, overlooking the Sarlat valley.
Accommodation: Hostellerie Fénélon
After breakfast, we take you upstream to near the pretty riverside town of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne for the briefing and canoeing lesson. Then it's an easy paddle down to Carennac. This is one of the Dordogne's most picturesque villages, with lovely C16 houses. Our hotel, with outdoor pool, is right in the heart of the village, overlooking the river.
Accommodation: Hostellerie Fénélon
A fairytale village with a jumble of cottages and C16 turreted manor houses along with the remains of the ramparts and the once-magnificent priory. Fenelon, still celebrated as the village's most famous son, was the very popul...
Accommodation: Hotel La Terrasse
On the first part of the journey you pass below massive cliffs, paddling past four impressive riverside chateaux before arriving at Meyronne and our spectacular C11 chateau hotel.
Accommodation: Hotel La Terrasse
Why not relax at the hotel's pool, or take a pleasant walk to the south of the river, by the Rochers Ste Marie and the Grotte de Lacave? Rocamadour (only a 15km taxi ride away), together with the Mont St Michel, is France's most...
Accommodation: Hotel Le Quercy
Today is an easy paddle, with lots of interesting things to see along the river. You'll pass, and can visit, the Grotte de Lacave (over a mile of caverns with curious stalactites reflecting in the water) and some beautiful riverside chateaux (look out for Belcastel and the impressive Chateau de la Treyne in particular).
Accommodation: Hotel Le Quercy
The prosperous farming country around Souillac was created from marshland by industrious C12-13 Benedictine monks. Of the powerful abbey they built, just the abbey church remains, with outstanding bas-relief sculpture. Today Souil...
Accommodation: Hotel de Meysset
Relaxed canoeing down to Grolejac via St Julien (lovely village, good lunch stop) through the heart of peaceful and prosperous Perigord countryside, with lots of time for swimming or lazing by the river. We pick you up from here ...
You leave your hotel after breakfast.
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