Tour of the Arcachon Bay / Basin by bike or on foot

This guide offers a trip around the Arcachon Basin. By bike, by car or even by boat, the author provides his advice, recommendations for visits, and information on the natural and tourist heritage.

Where to taste oysters? Where to learn surfing? How to get to Bird Island...? Arcachon Basin hikes? This guide answers (almost) all your questions. From Arès to the Dune du Pilat, you won't miss anything thanks to this guide to the Arcachon Basin.

Sculpted by nature and shaped by human intervention, the Arcachon Basin contains a multitude of treasures, often unique. Among them, we include the famous Pilat dune and the emblematic huts tchanquées, but also remarkable nature reserves, small picturesque ports where traditional pinasses nestle, forests crossed by a vast network of cycle paths, and even a unique river and wild, nicknamed the “little Amazon”. Welcome to this wonderland, which this guide enriched with a hint of history and anecdotes invites you to explore in more depth.

This guide includes:

• Places to visit
• Places to eat and taste oysters
• Book bike rides, at sea
• Activities (fishing, cinema, beaches, golf)