Activities
Sports and other activities
- Walking and making trips
- Biking, standard, racing and ATB
- Carting in Grospierres
- Wildwater canoeing and rafting through the Gorges de l'Ardeche
- Speleology (cave discouvering)
- Quadracing
- Hanggliding
- Horseriding
- Fishing
- Surfing/sailing
- Tennis (free tenniscourt at 1 km)
- Swimming in one of the rivers
- Or just being lazy on one of the river banks
Visit the local markets and smell flavours of sage, rosemary and picodon (goatcheese).
In July and August there are many evening-markets in the Ardèche.
In Vallon Pont d'Arc there is an annual lavender party.
In Les Vans you can visit an olive mill, in July there are olive parties, and you can have a look at the pottery-market.
"Goûtez l'Ardèche"
Taste the sausages and paté from the mountains and try a little piece of the Picodon, the famous goatcheese, the marmelade and honey are famous in this part of the country.
When you have tasted all these products, don't forget to visit the "Caves" with the wines of the region:
Côtes du Rhône; Saint Péray and Côtes de Vivarais.
In Autumn, in the heart of the "Monts d'Ardèche" is the chestnut very important. For two days you can eat roast meat with chestnuts and make special horse-trips from village to village.
The Ardèchois use their chestnuts in a lot of dishes: soups, ragout, puree gratin and pudding..