Beneath the Stars - 13 km

An excellent outing for children and grown-ups!

Discover the Loire at your own rhythm, set up your bivouac and enjoy a night in the open air.

This is the ideal bivouac for having a real adventure without straying far from home.

Take with you: sleeping bags, tents, food and water.

No campfires in the National Park, but you can take a portable BBQ and charcoal, or a camping stove.

Warning: Do not disturb the wildlife, especially birds, which are protected by law.

You may bivouac on island beaches, but not inland from the beaches; there you will be on private property.

DANGER: NEVER bivouac or land on a sandbank in mid-stream.  It may look solid, but appearances can be very deceptive.  The visible edges of the sandbank may just be overhangs scoured out by the current underneath, which can also have formed cavities in the sandbank itself.  The sand you see may, in places, be only inches thick.

A shuttle will take you upstream to Villebernier.  From there you will descend to St-Martin-de-la-Place, journey’s end.

Two possibilities:

• You may take all your material with you and choose you own bivouac site between Villebernier and St Martin, returning to the base between 12.00 and 12.30 the next day.
• Or leave everything in your vehicles, descend the Loire as far as St Martin, then bivouac in the sandy gully at the foot of the base. We shall collect our material at about 10.00 the next day.

The bivouac in brief :