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Descent Canoe Kayak Gorges Du Tarn Les Vignes TobogganThe launch takes place at Les Vignes.The stretch of water allows us to practice handling the canoe and paddles. Everyone finds their place in the canoe: me at the controls, Tsingy at the lookout.
The water is very clear, almost emerald. You can easily observe trout, barbel and other river fish. There are also beavers and otters but we only saw their tracks on the banks!
Time to get in some practice and hey presto! first sensation with the passage of a toboggan. An invigorating and refreshing way to get started!
Puppy can easily get around the reservoir if the slide scares him.
What a palette of natural colors! Emerald water, lush green vegetation, deep blue skies, orange-gray limestone cliffs, exceptional luminosity day and night. Autumn is joined by an array of warm colors.
Let’s go for 11km of quiet canoeing… After 3km, a short break on the left bank of the Tarn near a small spring or resurgence, hard to tell the 2 apart!”
After a bit of climbing on foot and on legs, well hidden under the leafy trees opens the vast grotte de l’Hironcelle (or Ironcel). The coolness beneath the rocky vault is as pleasant as that of the river!
Nature is well preserved and breathtakingly splendid, ideal for recharging your batteries in the great outdoors.
Cani Canoe Emmene Ton Chien 02The Grands Causses are a caving paradise, with hundreds of chasms, avens, caves, abysses… Some cavities are reserved for cavers, others open to visitors. Many smaller caves border the hiking trails. So there’s plenty to explore!
At the water’s edge, tranquility and a sense of well-being dominate. A majestic mineral panorama opens up with the high cliffs of the Gorges du Tarn: the Baousse del Biel (40m-high rock arch) and the Cinglegros (colossal rock detached from the cliffs) dominate the course.
In the river, boulders invite you to swim and take small jumps in complete safety.
As for the small pebble or sandy beaches, they invite you to enjoy a fabulous picnic, with your feet in the water, watching the wild beauty of the place… and the canoe dance! Most are only accessible by canoe! Yep, there are sticks everywhere!
A real little corner of paradise.
Cani Canoe Emmene Ton Chien 20Original and ideal option with a dog for exploring the Gorges du Tarn: a canoe-hike combo.
Go from Le Rozier to Les Vignes by hiking, on a path running along the Tarn a little uphill. Return to Les Vignes – Le Rozier by canoe.
Look up and you’ll see the hamlet of La Sablière (left bank), at one with a small limestone cliff on which it sits. Only one access: a path or via the river.
Don’t let the wild beauty of the place distract you… a friendly rapid gets the adrenaline pumping (nicely)! Sensations and emotions guaranteed!
Several small rapids follow one another to play with the river, maneuvering your canoe to catch the ripples and avoid the rocks.
Tsingy preferred to swim past the first rapid; the others in the canoe trying to catch the splashes!
Lift your head again and further up (right bank): Saint-Marcelin and Eglazines, 2 troglodytic hamlets now abandoned, clinging to the high, sunny cliffs of the Gorges du Tarn.
Cani Canoe Emmene Ton Chien 09A hike follows the ancient path to the troglodytic hamlets of Eglazines and Saint-Marcelin. One of the not-to-be-missed hikes in the Gorges du Tarn.
Cani Canoe Emmene Ton Chien 12La Plage des Basaltes, here’s an unusual swimming spot… and a beautiful one! There used to be a volcano here in south Aveyron?! It’s hard to imagine that it was spewing its lava into the Gorges du Tarn, even if the remnants of the black flows are still visible on this real spot for aquatic activities.
A very playful rapid in the middle of an ancient lava flow, small black rocks and on either side of the Tarn, micro coves and beaches of fine white sand.
First descent in a canoe, climb back up on foot and on foot through the rocks, swim down through the eddies (Tsingy with his stick in his mouth please), pause for a dip in the white sand…
The Tarn is pure bliss to canoe down and with the whole family!”
As with all rivers in France, hydrocution and cyanobacteria
represent a risk for our 4-legged companions. Download our Canine Memo for more information and advice.
Back to calmer waters. The lighthouse of the Gorges du Tarn et de la Jonte confluence, the Rocher de Capluc, is in sight. Last rapid (Roc Blanc) and the Pont Cassé faces us.
We often see in the media the damage caused by “Cevennes episodes”… the Pont Cassé du Rozier is witness to this, the victim of a terrible flood. Just below the surface of the emerald water of the Tarn, you can still make out a huge piece of a bridge pier lying flat: enough to walk on!”
Today, if you want to cross this bridge, you’ll have to do it on a slackline.
Le Rozier: terminus of the Tarn canoe trip.
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Many slackline, highline and waterline events take place on the high cliffs of the Gorges du Tarn, de la Jonte or de la Dourbie : Natural Games, Camp 4 Jonte, Troglodyte Highline Tour… It’s not uncommon to see lines stretched here and there all year round.
La Sabliere in the Gorges du Tarn
Reflections of the trees lining the Tarn
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