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Every summer, from May to October, we organise riding holidays with set dates of one week’s duration which take you round the heart of the Chateaux of the Loire. You will find further details below and in other leaflets available from Les Ecuries de la Vallee des Rois. If however you are interested in taking a riding holiday on another date, we can arrange a route specially for you in groups of at least eight riders. In addition, depending on availability, we can arrange a day’s ride or a weeked ride all year round. Each summer we also organise riding holidays for teenagers (ask us for a documentation and a registration form). Having landed at Paris-Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, you can catch the TGV train directly from the airport station at 1.45pm, arriving at Saint Pierre des Corps (near Tours) at 3.20pm ; we will be there to greet you and to transfer you to the equestrian centre.
After a welcoming drink, the cloakroom facilities of the club house will be available to you so that you may change your clothing. We recommend that you bring comfortable riding wear (breeches/jodhpurs, boots, gloves, raincoat and riding hat). We will then choose a suitable horse together, which you will then be riding during the holiday. The choice of horse will depend upon your riding ability, height and weight, and personal choice of a wide variety of high quality horses. These horses are trained daily at our equestrian centre so that your riding holiday will be both safe and convivial. We will supply you with comfortable, long distance saddles with saddle bags attached, and riding hats will be available to you if you require them. In order for you to get to know your horse, we will set off on a 2 hours ride to the nearby Chateau de Nitray, where you can visit the old tower, the park, the wine cellars, and sample the different wines from the Touraine region. On your return from this ride, we will serve you a home cooked dinner in the club house. At the end of the evening, you will be driven to a nearby bed and breakfast hotel.
The riding
holiday circuit runs from Sunday morning to the following Friday
evening, with an average of between 4 and 6 hours per day in the
saddle. You will be accompanied by a state registered, bilingual
equestrian tourism guide. We arrange a daily visit to a chateau with commentary in english by your equestrian guide, and, if the itinerary permits, visits to a museum or to a wine cellar. We always use well maintained bridleways and paths, which are suitable for cantering and which will lead us across very varied countryside: peaceful stretches along the Cher river, sandy shores along the Loire river, green and lush forests, verdant valleys and vineyards.
Lunch is home cooked and prepared by our own staff and served on a picnic table outdoors (there is always shelter available in case of rain). Dinner and breakfast will be provided either in guest house or at a restaurant. We will introduce you to the local culinary specialities - quiches and traditional tarts, gourmet salads, a variety of cold meats, locally produced cheeses - and you will be able to appreciate the renowned local wines, whether white, red or rose, which come from the local vineyards of Chenin, Gamay and Cabernet. Overnight
accommodation will be in bed and breakfast or hotels (private
bathroom and lavatories).
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