Day trip Middle-Verdon

Meet at 9:30 AM (or in summer at 11:30 AM and departure at 3:30 PM for the afternoon route) at our «Adventure Forest» base (See access map)

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.

Then, we stop for lunch by the river at our «La Pinède» beach. After a meal and a rest, we resume our navigation towards the entrance of the Gorges, marked by passing through the «La Dégoulinante» rapids.

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.

The Solitaire rapid will mark the end of this descent. All that will remain is for us to reascend to the Belvédère du Couloir Samson with our equipment, taking the Sentier Martel for about ten minutes to return to the bus that will bring us back to our base «Adventure Forest».