Horseback Riding in France
DOMAINE DES GARENNES RIDE |
The Domaine des Garennes makes a fine central location to explore a charming region, and is the base for the Tour de Quercy ride. A wonderful family or individual riding holiday option with comfortable rooms, warm hospitality, excellent food, squash and tennis courts and a swimming pool. Alternate full and half day rides go to such destinations as goose and trout farms.
This is a family farm set in an attractive region of oak forests and cultivated fields with many well known historical sites nearby, and is an exceptionally good value.
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| Itinerary |
| Day 1: | Transfer from Souillac or Brive railway station to the riding center for dinner and overnight. Meet your hosts, Jean-Paul and Annabella, and the staff. |
| Day 2: | Breakfast at 9 o'clock. Then spend a half hour getting acquainted with your horse, including feeding, grooming, picking hooves and tacking up. Ride for approximately 2 ½ hours in the surrounding area. Lunch back at the center, a typical meal of the Perigord, then relax in the afternoon with a swim, tennis or nap.
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| Day 3: | A full days ride to Ladornac. There you will eat in a 'auberge de campagne'. After lunch there is a choice between a nap or a visit to a very old church. Afterward ride back to les Garennes.
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| Day 4: | Half day ride over the 'Causses de Gignac', with a short rest at the windmill of Gignac. Afternoon free.
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| Day 5: | Whole days ride to Laval, where lunch will be taken with the farmer, his wife and son. The family specializes in breeding pigs, chickens and rabbits, and will be happy to have you inspect them.
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| Day 6: | Half days ride to Ferriere and Chartrier, two little villages of the Limousin, with picturesque 16th and 17th century architecture.
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| Day 7: | Full days ride to visit a goose farm. The Perigord and the Quercy are know worldwide for the marvellous meals of goose. Lunch is taken at the farm. Ride back to les Garennes for good-bye celebrations for riders staying only one week.
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| Day 8: | After breakfast transfer to the Souillac train station.
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| THIS ITINERARY IS FLEXIBLE. CHANGES MAY OCCUR DUE TO WEATHER OR OTHER UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. |
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| Pricing and Dates |
| Meeting Point | Brive |
| Length of Ride | 8 days, 7 nights and 3 full and 3 half days riding. |
| Riding Ability | Novice |
| Group Size | Minimum-2 Maximum-10 |
| Riding Per Day | 3-5 hours |
| Pace | leisurely |
| Tack | English (a few Western) |
| Horses | mixed breeds |
| Weight Limit | 200 lbs |
| 2008 Dates | Saturday to Saturday April 5-October 25 |
| 2008 Price | €840
Due to rapidly changing market please call for the current US dollar rate.
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| Single Supplement | $100 |
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