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SIDE TRIPS

We like to offer you variety of SIDE TRIPS outside of the Naturist Village and the selection of THINGS TO DO :

SIDE TRIPS :

The side trips will be organized depending on the number of people interested.
The exact prices will be announced before each trip. Costs may include transportation, and entrance fee.

• Day trip to Aiguesmortes : this heavy fortified town is located about 50 miles from Cap d'Agde. It has been build about 750 years ago to shelter and protect salt miners working on retrieving salt from nearby marshes. A little has changed over centuries and the city represents one of the most beautiful and well preserved medieval towns. Intact walls and fortifications add unique climate to this fully occupied town, which today are more attracting than protecting citizens from tourist invasion.
  
  
  Distance : 50 miles (80 km) ; to see the route of this journey, click here
  
  
• Day trip to Carcassonne : this trip could be alternative or addition to Aiguesmortes visit.

  History of Carcassonne goes back to sixth century B.C. Changing hands from the Romans to The Visigoths, and later to the Saracens, between first and seventh century, Carcassonne became property of the Trencavel dynasty until a siege by crusaders, preached by Pope Innocent III. The Cité and the lands of Trencavel first fell into hands of the military commander of the crusade, Simon de Montfort, then to the King of France in 1224.

  
  Distance : 69 miles (111 km) ; to see the route of this journey, click here
  
  
• Day trip to the caves of Roquefort : this trip could be alternative or addition to the other trips in Aiguesmortes or Carcassonne.
  We propose here a circuit in the middle of the Regional Parc of the Grands Causses : old villages, visit of the caves of Roquefort, the famous sheep's milk cheese AOC (Appellation of Controlled Origin), and a tour through the canyon of the Dourbie...
  
  

  ... for 3 € during one hour, you will see how is made this famous cheese in beautiful caves. The visit will be followed by a degustation in the shop where you can buy cheese and souvenirs...

  ... on the way and before this visit, we propose you an unforgetable and typic lunch in a very old farm (15th century) in the village of "La Salvetat" (15€ wine, coffee all included). All the products served are prepared and made by the farmer in a very natural way. Then you will join the next village, La Couvertoirade, a middleage village left intact for seven centuries... You'll walk, enjoy the beauty of this very old village and discover its handcraft shops... The village is entirely pedestrian...

  the village of La Couvertoirade...

  ... with its main entry

  watering place for sheep

  ... you will then drive in the middle of the Regional Park of the Grands Causses and the plateau of Larzac, heaven for sheep, till the village of Roquefort for the visit of the caves... ... before returning for your next hot evening, you will go to Millau ...

  The village of Roquefort

  ... underneath the Viaduct of Millau, the new (December 2004), longest and highest iron bridge in the world, exceptional example of the French high technology (the highest pilar, with 343m is 20 meters higher than the Eiffel tower in Paris !) ... very, very impressive... ... and you will drive through the canyon of the Dourbie on the way back

  the Viaduct of Millau

  
  Total distance : 180 miles (300 km) ; to see the route of this journey, click here
  
  
• Half a day trip to Sète : this town, located about 10 miles from Cap d'Agde, is the second largest fishing port of the Mediterranean Sea with its famous marine cemetery
  
  Distance : 16 miles (25 km) ; to see the route of this journey, click here
  
  
• Half a day trip to Wine caves : there are a lot of wine caves all around... Nolly Prat, Picpoul de Pinay, etc. Possibility to visit the properties, degust and buy bottles. Anyway, the wine produced around is very good, not well known and cheap...
  
  
• Half a day trip for visting the Agde city with the fortified roman cathedral from the 12th century.
  
  
  
  
• Half a day trip to Flea Market in Marseillan (3 miles from Cap d'Agde) : every Saturday morning and Sunday morning
  
  
• Half a day little swinger cruise : accommodates maximum of 8 couples. Spend sexy and swinging afternoon with your friends or ... strangers, cruising between Cap d'Agde and Sète.
  
  
• Half a day little cruise on the Canal du Midi" : very colorful and vivid cruise
  You can also have a look on the link about the Canal du Midi.
  
  
  Cruise on the "Canal du Midi"
  
  

THINGS TO DO :

We plan to use our rented vehicles, public transportation, or members may individually share a car rental or a taxi.

• Events proposed by the town of Cap d'Agde :
  • the 21st of June 2005, "La fête de la musique", (Music's Day) like everywhere in France that day
  • between Wednesday 22nd and the Sunday 26th of June 2005, "the European Laser Show Festival" (on the Richelieu beach and in the port on Sunday)
  • Friday 24th, Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of June 2005, "the Mediterranean Ferrari", concentration and parade of Ferraris, a rare occasion for dreaming in front of mythical cars...
  • Les Joutes : modern tournament with knights on boats
    
    
  
  
  
• Seawater cure : Place de la Falaise - 34300 Cap d'Agde
  Tél : 08.25.12.51.45
  Discover the benefits of the thalassotherapy - half a day or one full day
  
  
  
  
• Market in Agde : every Thursday morning
  
  
  
  
• Market in Cap d'Agde : every Saturday Morning
  
  
  
  
• Golfing : the Golf of Cap d'Agde has an international playing course (18 holes, PAR 72) and it is the perfect place to either play golf or just simply relax
  The Trophée Seniors de la Ville d'Agde (Senior's Trophy of Agde) will be held between the 18th and 25th of June (exact schedule to be announced).
  
  
• Promenading the wharf of Cap d'Agde's port and "rue de la Flanerie" browsing all small shops and visiting romantic restaurants
  
  
  
  
• L'Ile aux Loisirs (Entertainment Island or Amusement Park) : for people who look for a break from lifestyle activities.
  The evening in L'Ile aux Loisirs, with its permanent Luna Park could be just what is needed. From casino with slot machines and Black Jack to mini golf, discos, restaurants and many other attractions
  
  
• The Casino of Cap d'Agde (located inside the "L'Ile aux Loisirs") : may be after the club, open from 10AM till 4AM, a good way to verify how much lucky you are to be there
  
  
  
  
• Aqualand : Tél 08.92.68.66.13 - all the water games
  
  
• Riding : horse riding possibility in the country around Agde and Marseillan area
  
  
• Fishing : possibility to board a fishship for a half-day in the Cap d'Agde's marina
  
  
• Sailing : possibility of renting boats, jets-skis, pedalos
  
  
• All types of sport : water ski, parasailing, scuba diving, tennis, bike riding, archery, pétanque (Pétanque : French national sport, simple but very entertaining, could be played by anyone in your back yard at home ; we plan to have lessons of this popular game for you during our stay)
  
  
• Funfair : every night in Marseillan
  
  
• Taureau piscine (Bullring) : (only in July and August) Popular parody of "Corrida" converted to very funny and of course bloodless show with a horns protected young bull and participation of the audience in a bullring
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Visiting the Aquarium or the museum of Cap d'Agde : the Éphèbe of Agde, a Hellenic bronze statue, discovered in the Hérault river in 1964
  
  
  L'Ephèbe
  
  
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