The oyster route around the bassin d'arcachon

Try an original trip around the bassin d'arcachon and discover the culture, environment and flavours of the oysters of arcachon/cap ferret.

Visits by walking of the oyster parks,bassin d'arcachon  With low tide, some oyster beds are accessible by walking. An occasion to discover in company of an oyster culturist the trade, the gestures and techniques of the collecting of naissain and breeding of oyster.  oyster tasting: The oyster culturists accomodate you in their huts for a tasting and a presentation with accompanying notes of the Oysters Arcachon/Cap Ferret. Accompanied by lemon, bread, butter and on fresh white wines, the oyster exhales all its savours. The oyster culturists rigorously selected a range of services allowing to discover the richness of the production, the nuances of taste... of oysters of the Basin of Arcachon

exits with the tide, live at the rhythm of the tide  On the barge of an oyster culturist in direction of the oyster beds. You will live at the rhythm of the tide and will take part in work on the park under the eye of your host.  In a convivial environment, an oyster tasting will be organized on the boat.

By pinasse, rando discovery,bassin d'arcachon  Rando Discovery: departure from Arcachon, Cape Ferret for a one day circuit punctuated of stages in the oyster ports of Audenge, Tests, Arés, Lanton. Hardly got off the boat, accompanied by a naturalist guide, you will go by walking, or or riding bikes at the meeting of an oyster culturist, let's discover an exposure...

In kayak of sea on the bassin of arcachon  The kayak of sea made its appearance on the Basin of Arcachon, ten years ago. This light, handy and quiet boat, allows navigation on ways little immersed to observe with more close one very preserved nature.  Accompanied by impassioned guides, the routes of short-nap cloth of water, on the Basin, the river Leyre, by the meadows of the island with the birds to observe and listen to nature and the maritime life. Trott 2h30 with 6h00.

Musées, expositions on the local inheritance, navigation  Collections on the local inheritance, exposures on traditional navigation, the history of ostreiculture... Associations and people receiving benefits open the doors of their museums, their workshops to make you discover the culture and the oyster and maritime uses in the Basin of Arcachon.

Guided tour in the bassin of arcachon  History and formation of landscapes of the Basin of Arcachon, the oyster ports and villages, the salted meadows, discover the natural reserves... Guides will accompany you on the ways of discovery.These stroll are prolonged sometimes around an oyster tasting at the hut of an oyster culturist.

Festivals and demonstrations, events of the road of oyster  The Basin of Arcachon accomodates in summer many cultural events. Rigorously selected, events of the Road of oyster: Festivals, concerts, regattas... offer to the public moments of relaxation, discovery and user-friendliness in remarkable maritime or natural sites.