Boat strolls

Duration : 7h30 - Price : 39 euros Take a ride on the Loire à Vélo© between Tours and Montlouis-sur-Loire, visit a winery and have a picnic break before returning by canoe! Your program in detail :  Your program: Departure from Tours, 13 km bike ride on the Loire River (1h00) to Montlouis-sur-Loire: follow the banks of the Loire on a bike path accessible to the whole family. A visit and wine tasting awaits you in Montlouis sur Loire (1h00). Discover the land and the history of the wines of Montlouis-sur-Loire. You can picnic at the canoe base in Vouvray, but you'll need to bring your own picnic as there are no refreshment points on site. You will exchange your bikes for canoes at our base in Vouvray and return to Tours by canoe (at the guinguette of the Wilson bridge or at the pont de fil depending on the water level). You will travel about 7 km, (1h30/2H) on unsinkable and self-bailing canoes to return to Tours in the middle of the birds of the Loire.

Duration : 1h30 - Price : 20 € Come aboard a traditional boat for an hour and a half of escapism in the heart of the Loire.  Information on the history of inland waterway transport, the fauna and flora will enhance your trip along the water.  To get a closer look at the secrets that the Loire can reveal, bring a pair of binoculars.

With La Rabouilleuse, experience a literary moment on the Loire aboard a traditional boat. A little upstream from Tours, along the hillsides of Rochecorbon and Vouvray, come and enjoy a trip where the sailor is also an actor. The texts are not read but spoken and acted out by your pilot on the boat.  "I have a feeling I've already said this elsewhere: the Loire and Touraine have been praised far too much. It's time to do it justice. The Seine is much more beautiful than the Loire; Normandy is a much more charming 'garden' than Touraine...". Victor Hugo Jean-Marie Sirgue, boatman and actor, is determined to prove the great Victor wrong, and will not hesitate to call on the likes of Balzac, Rabelais, Laclavetine, La Fontaine, Genevoix, Pennac, Beuriot and Maupassant...

Duration: 1h30 - Price: €21 Just outside Tours, the Bateliers du Cher offer guided tours all year round, departing from Savonnières (up the Cher towards Tours). You'll board traditional 18th and 19th century boats (seating 12) for an hour of discovery. A change of scenery and peace and quiet guaranteed!