Vaucluse with your family
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18 and June 19, Epicurium, living museum of fruits and vegetables, is organizing a festive weekend on the theme of the cherry for the transition to summer.

Many activities are planned for children and adults. Activities offered in addition to visiting the exhibition and gardens:

- Culinary Workshop around cherries

- Outdoor Living: Treasure hunt in the orchard.

 - Animation Art: Fresco.

- Workshop "tree of the seasons. "

- Taste of Cherry.

- Exhibition on the cherry and candied fruit. - Musical entertainment fruity ...

Special price: 5 € for all (free for children under 6 years)

Fun, family-style discovery of canoeing and kayaking, with free outings on the Rhone in kayaks or dug-outs on Sunday 22 May 2011 from 1:30 to 6 pm

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Discover this universe of 25 LGB trains which travel over 650 meters of track in a landscaped setting with over 3000 dwarf plantings, model train stations, villages, roads, bridges, lakes, mountains, and 250 figurines. The entire garden is on a 1/25 scale, which corresponds to 7-centimeter santon figurines.

It is really fun to visit the garden with the list of characters and animals to find throughout the garden !Inside the building, there are wooden train tracks on low tables available to children.

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A meeting with ants, butterflies, plants and other life forms

Naturoptère offers a chance to meet this “tiny” world to answer these questions: What is an insect? How do insects live and feed? How do they evolve in the wild?

With the family, learn all about biodiversity or the cycles of flowers; in short: discover Mother Nature’s secrets with insects!

With a combined ticket, you can visit Harmas Jean-Henri Fabre to learn more about the man known as the “Homer of insects”!

To make the best of this opportunity, there is a picnic area.

Suggestion for a family stay: Discovering the world of insects

In Sault, the Centre de découverte de la Nature (Nature Discovery Centre) is dedicated to providing information on the region, its flora and fauna through Nature displays on 600m² of permanent and temporary exhibition space: Wild animals on Mont Ventoux, Water in the Vaucluse, History of the Mont Ventoux forest... Learn all about Nature thanks to signs and interactive terminals, videos, sensory chambers and other games.

For a sweet tooth! Nougaterie Boyer organises tours on request to show how nougat and almond macaroons are made.

Then head for Mont Ventoux!

On the South face: hike along marked forest trails (topo guides at the Tourist Bureau in Sault), or starting from Chalet Reynard to reach the peak along a ridge-top trail.

On the North face: the Mont Serein ski resort is your starting point for:

-The J.H. Fabre discovery trail

-Hiking on GR4 and GR9

-Mountain biking

-Relaxing along a health trail with wooden structures: horizontal bars, wall bars... (between La Lisière and Le Vallon slopes)

-or simply discovering Nature

Suggestion for a family stay: Mission Nature!

September 11. and 12.

On Wednesdays, we depart by horse-drawn carriage for an excursion through the heart of Ventoux, famous for its ochre, from 9.30am to 12pm.

At each stop in the forest of Sablons, our guide will tell you the story of ochre and the vine.

At the end of the tour, wine tasting of Ventoux wines for adults and fruit juice for children!

In the village of Le Thor, just a few kilometres from L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, the Thouzon Cave was discovered in 1902. Nicknamed Grotte aux fées (fairy cave), it features a great many concretions: stalactites, stalagmites, draperies, gours, cave pearls... as well as balance shafts, talus fan, filled-in joints, shafts, meanders, flint nodules... 45-minute tour