Five activities to try to discover the Vendée by the sea

Get your nets ready? Go! On the occasion of the Vendée Globe and the festivities around the department, Travels to the West offers you – in its new issue – five activities to do in Vendée. After this breath of fresh air and these fun activities, we await your return. In the meantime, don’t leave without having…

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…salt your day

In L'Aubraie, the Salt Adventure Park will delight young and old. In the heart of the salt farms, on 10 hectares of salt marshes, this is an essential heritage stop and not boring at all. You can sail aboard the Mireille or the Jonathan, explore a unique and preserved environment, meet a salt worker, and the children harvest their own salt. Not to mention the Gallic huts, the cod ship, the plant hut, etc.

…riding a segway and a scooter

In Olonne-sur-Mer, treat yourself with family or friends with accompanied gyropod or scooter rides along the sea. To top it all off, “La Vendée à gyro” offers an aperitif and charcuterie platter formula. , Vendée cheeses or oyster tasting at sunset overlooking the sea. And all this from 6 years old!

…harvested Sylvia’s plants

In Beauvoir-sur-Mer, a stone's throw from the fascinating Passage du Gois, Sylvia and Florence cultivate around fifty aromatic and medicinal plants on one hectare. They harvest them by hand and transform them using ancestral practices. Herbal teas, hydrosols, syrups, balms or floral waters are sold directly from the farm, which is called… Les Jardins de la Cure.

… fished on foot at the Passage du Gois

One of the most popular areas is between Gois and the oyster beds, between Beauvoir-sur-Mer and Noirmoutier. Equip yourself with boots or good shoes, a basket or a bucket, take the time to consult the tide times, use a 3-pronged grapette, a fishing-clam knife, and let's go. Nothing like disconnecting for a few hours. Don't forget to check the sizes and quantity of shellfish allowed.

…visited a unique universe

Vendée Miniatures, in Brétignolles-sur-Mer, is open during the All Saints’ Day holidays. Here, more than 650 characters, 50 buildings and a multitude of animated scenes make you (re)live the Vendée countryside at the beginning of the century. An unusual visit not to be missed that will please the whole family, without forgetting the room dedicated to the permanent Lego 1900 exhibition.