Meet at 9:30 am (or 11:30 in the summer) at our private ground “Adventure Forest” (SEE THE ACCESS MAP) – our guides are there to welcome you.
They then hand out the equipment and give a safety talk. You are now ready to embark on a rafting day trip that is about to take you to the Samson Corridor (4 hours and 22 km of navigation).
The first section is relatively easy; there is plenty of time to become acquainted with the rafting navigation techniques. On this first part of the river, class II rapids – which are relatively easy – are mostly encountered. The morning ride ends with the negociating of the “Barre St. Jean”, a rapid graded III (medium difficulty) requiring more manoeuvering than the previous ones.
Soon after this exciting moment, it is time to stop for lunch on the river bank at our private beach ” The pinewood”. Following the midday break, your descent continues towards the Verdon gorges.
Right at the entrance of the gorges, a fun rapid called “La Dégoulinante” is waiting for you for a real roller-coaster ride on the waves. From that point, we take some time to marvel at the work of millions of years of erosion on the impressive limestone cliffs surrounding us between the successive class II and III rapids.
But the excitement is not quite yet over, as the right-angle shaped “Solitaire” rapid – the steepest and the fastest rapid of the day – is soon coming up. This exhilarating rapid marks the end of the descent. Getting out of the raft, you can admire the beauty of the Samson Corridor, as you help to deflate and roll up the raft before carrying it on the “Sentier Martel” trail. This entails a 10 mn walk out of the gorge to reach the Samson Corridor Belvedere, where our bus is waiting to drive you back to Adventure Forest.
