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Article: Chateaus by canoe. (canoe traveling through France's Dordogne Valley)
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- Article date:
- April 1, 1988
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Chateaux by canoe
Medieval chateaux and limestone cliffs, pate de foie gras and local truffles, flourishing rural gardens and 15,000-year-old cave paintings: such attractions are making France's Dordogne Valley increasingly popular with both French and foreign tourists. Its quiet roads and rolling terrain draw many cyclists. But to tour at an even more relaxed pace, try canoeing.
It would be hard to find two rivers more appealing for canoe touring than the Dordogne and its tributary, the Vezere. Campgrounds and towns with small, inexpensive inns appear at close intervals along both rivers' banks; between are broad stretches of quiet farmland.
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