A true natural treasure, the Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Reserve covers almost a million hectares, offering an incredible diversity of landscapes, from majestic pine forests to lakes and the river Leyre.
It is home to an exceptional flora and fauna, with emblematic species such as the common crane. Nature lovers will find here what they are looking for through numerous hiking trails, perfect to explore this rich area in peace.
The Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Reserve is also the birthplace of ancestral traditions, especially in crafts or agriculture. To know everything about local traditions, head towards Sabres in the Landes. The eco-museum of Marquèze offers a time travel on a historic locomotive in the district of Marquèze, rebuilt as it was in 1890… Then, you will be able to taste the traditional pastis or to learn gascon dance!
Les escapades ecopositives :
a website for green holidays
These tourism professionals are passionate about their region and look forward to opening their doors to you! They are glad to share their passion with the passing travellers, while doing their best to protect this precious heritage.
A good idea doesn’t always circulate by word of mouth… To make your life easier, getaways and small rambles are now available online! You will find here the enthusiasm and commitment that bring them to life, promising you moments of complicity alone, with a partner or with family.
On this website, you will find: their description, their accommodation (heading “Escapades”) and their suggestions for leisure activities (heading “Vadrouilles”).
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The imaginaterres :
committed to ecotourism
The ”Cercle des Imaginaterres” gathers today around fifty service providers (hosts, providers of tourist activities, craftspeople, producers…), federated by the Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Reserve, aware of the challenges of sustainable development and committed to a more responsible tourism.
Close to nature and aware of the patrimonial richness of the region, these participants share the values of the Regional Nature Reserve, which supports them in a virtuous approach of tourism. Every day, they endeavour to place solidarity, the environment, generosity and the gascon identity at the heart of their offer. In this way, they put themselves in the most beautiful manner at the service of the saying “Another kind of tourism is being invented here”. True pioneers of tomorrow’s tourism, “being Imaginaterres” commits them to an approach of voluntary progress, tending to a better environmental and social management of their structure.
Renovations using environmentally responsible materials, ecological gardens, maximised rubbish management, measured energy consumption: these are some of the concrete actions that our service providers have implemented in their structures to meet the challenges of sustainable tourism.
