Come experience a relaxing and invigorating journey
... boating along a 17th-century canal
... through the Languedoc wine country

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Navigate the canal as a family, where everyone contributes

Make multiple intergenerational memories  together

Forge new friendships with other families on the trip

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​Fairytale castles, medieval villages, hillside vineyards, Mediterranean breezes, and more...

 Engage your entire family.
Savor the easy pace of canal boating.
Take pleasure in the aroma of lavender.
Enjoy the welcome of sunflowers grown in canal-side fields.  
We hope you can join us for this special journey.

Medieval Carcassonne alongside the canal

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BOAT SELECTION

Magnifique - $6,500* for the week

8 Passenger

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Salsa B - $6,500* for the week

8 Passenger

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Calypso - $6,000* for the week

6 Passenger

*includes the following:
Canal boat rental, Fuel for 30 hours of operation, Deck seat cushions, 4 bicycles per boat, Gas BBQ on boat, Starter pack of groceries, Transfer from Toulouse airport to Castelnaudary on June 15, Transfer from Homps to Barcelona on June 22,
​day excursions planning along the canal

Southern France
Travel from Castelnaudary to Homps 

Canal du Midi
A brief history

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During the 1660s, a local tax collector, Paul Riquet, dreamed of bringing prosperity back to Languedoc by building a canal to link it to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.  This mammoth undertaking was the most ambitious and complex civic engineering project since the time of the ancient Romans.  Though it bankrupted the visionary Riquet, who did not live to see its inauguration, by 1856 the canal was carrying one million passengers and more than 100,000 tons of freight per year.  Struck down into sudden obsolescence by the invention of the steam engine, the canal system languished over a century of disrepair, before being resurrected in the past few decades as a tourist attraction.  The quintessential Languedoc experience is to boat, walk, or cycle along Riquet’s canal, traveling at an easy pace, the tree-lined route providing shelter from the brilliant sun that coaxes up the region’s famous wine grapes.  Travelers are fascinated by the number of trees planted along the canals; the last big planting being about 100 years ago totaling around 42,000 plane trees.  

Gallery

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