Activities

Whether you're looking for activities with adults or to share with your children, the region is full of sightseeing, hiking trails, and all kinds of other sporting and cultural activities. If you prefer to stay close to your cottage, we offer a wide selection of "home-style" activities. Discover the program for your next vacation.

Our ""in-house"" activities

• Rides with ponies and donkeys

Rides with our Shetland ponies on the trails of the Hautes Corbières around the Gorges du Termenet and the Château de Termes, on trails, partly marked (GR 36, La Petite Vadrouille, Boucle du Roc de Nitable) and on our own trails on our property.

Self-guided walks (pony loan/rental): from 1 to 2 hours, half-day or full day. After an introduction and preparation of the ponies, you will set off independently on a trail for which we will provide you with the itinerary.

Guided walks (you will be accompanied by a person from the farm): from 1 to 2 hours, half a day or a full day. You will benefit from a competent guide, who will assist you with the animals and who will tell you in a fun way about the animals' lives, history, geology and environment....

Dates: Every Wednesday afternoon during term time; every day during vacation periods. Other dates are available by appointment. You can book your guided tour online on this website.

• Participation in the life of the farm (grooming, cuddles, visiting the herd in the mountains, small "transhumance", moving the herds, etc.)

• Arts and crafts : making wooden jewelry, small sculptures and trinkets from cade wood and talc

• Geological hikes (the owner is a geologist)

• Care and support for your childrenwith guided educational activities, leisure games around ponies
  

Activities in the region

• Hiking and mountain biking in the forest or in the scrubland, on numerous paths and trails from the house (the GR 36 is a few hundred meters away), two hiking loops around the castle and the Gorges du Termenet and the Gorges de Coynepont
• Horse riding and trekking in Termes (Pla d'al Roussi equestrian farm)
• Walks with our Shetland ponies and donkeys;
• Swimming and canyoning in the Gorges du Termenet (with or without a guide), at the foot of our property
• Visit to a llama farm run by our neighbors Sylvie and Nicole
• Discover the Buade mill, at Olga and Philippe's, our closest neighbors. Opportunity to buy freshly ground organic flour
• Hiking in the Pyrenees (50 km from the property)
• Mediterranean beaches
• Canoeing, kayaking, rafting, whitewater swimming in the Gorges de l'Aude (Alet-le-Bains, Limoux, Quillan, Axat)
• Discoveries of prestigious sites and castles (Termes, Villerouge Termenes, Quéribus, Peyrepertuse, Aguilar, Arques, Rennes-le-Château, Minerve, Lastours, Monségur, Carcassonne, Fanjeaux
• Visit breathtaking natural sites: Gorges du Termenet, Gorges de Coynepont, Gorges de l'Orbieu, all near Termes, then the Gorges de Galamus with its hermitage;
• Visits to the abbeys (Fontfroide 30 km, Lagrasse 16 km, Alet-les-Bains, etc.)
• Classical music concerts at these sites during the summer
• Visited the Dinosaur Museum in Espéraza and the Prehistoric Man Museum in Tautavel (entertainment for children)
• Visit to the Sigean African Reserve and the Carcassonne Australian Park
• Limousis Cave
• Medieval festivals in Carcassonne, with sound and light shows, historical reenactments, concerts, craft markets;
• Weekly markets in Lagrasse, Limoux, Lézignan and Laroque-de Fa (local producers' market, crafts; entertainment and catering on site every Friday from 5 p.m.).