As expected, Lourdes is not all about religious tourism. There are plenty of activities to keep visitors busy. Thus, prayer and pilgrimage are not the only activities to catch visitors’ attention. Golf, canoeing, horse riding, mountain hiking and mountain biking, skiing and spa treatments, for instance, are all possible in and nearby Lourdes.
Golfing usually goes hand in hand with the idea of a successful vacation. The Lourdes Golf Club makes available an 18-hole course in a mild topography pegged out by the presence of the Lourdes Lake. The entire venue benefits from the splendid and impressive backdrop of the Pyrenees. Besides the golf as such, visitors with no particular interest in golfing are offered the opportunity of making tours around the lake. The clubhouse has a restaurant and a meeting room. The pro shop goes without saying. Golf lessons are available for those willing to learn the secrets of this sport under the supervision of qualified trainers.
Horse riding is possible in the surroundings of Lourdes. The following are the most recommendable equestrian centers nearby Lourdes. Roughly speaking, they offer plenty of horse riding-related opportunities. For detailed information, explore the following indications:
Ecolorado is ideal for plenty of water sports activities, such as kayak-canoe and rafting. This park is located 8 kilometers from Lourdes, and makes available plenty of services and facilities for its clients: transport, changing rooms, the possibility of accommodation.
The Sport Nature leisure center offers activities which do not come down to kayaking exclusively. However, there is an emphasis on this king of sport. For detailed information on rates, opening hours, range of activities and the like, the following indications might prove useful:
Located only 15 kilometers from Lourdes, the Chloro’Fil Park makes available organized trips variously rated according to the level of difficulty and, not surprisingly, the height of the participants. Amounting to 12 circuits (4 for children and 8 for children and adults alike) the offer put forward by Chloro’Fil is simply irresistible for adventure seekers of all ages.
The Lac Vert center is ideal for those who simply want to sunbathe and to indulge in the adjoining activities: swimming, fishing, picnicking.
Lourdes is in convenient proximity to plenty of ski resorts, most of them located south from Lourdes. Most of these resorts enable both cross-country and alpine skiing, but they are also ideal for sightseeing, given their location (in the Pyrenees). Some of the most recommendable destinations in terms of skiing refer to Hautacam (20 kilometers from Lourdes), Val d’Azun and Cirque du Lys (each 30 kilometers from Lourdes), Pont d’Espagne (38 kilometers from the city), Luz-Ardiden (47 kilometers from the city), Gavarnie-Gedre (52 kilometers from Lourdes), Bareges and La Mongie Bareges (40 kilometers from Lourdes).
Lourdes is a famed pilgrimage destination both due to its religious significance and by force of its alleged miraculously healing waters streaming from the Grotto of Massabielle. For health care opportunities grounded on more scientific bases, tourists might also resort to various towns and cities located along the Gave Valley, and which focus on medical tourism by capitalizing the thermal and mineral waters of the region.
Some of the most recommendable health care destinations nearby Lourdes refer to: Argeles-Gazost, Aquensis, Beaucens-les-Bains, Luz-Saint-Sauveur, Cauterets and to Bareges-Barzun.
The entire region surrounding Lourdes is ideal for mere and genuinely rewarding walks in the very bosom of nature. The footpaths available for searching out amount to some 90 kilometers, so the variety and the richness of tourist thrills can be easily imagined. Of these, the most famous seems to be the so-called Green Path. Tourists will definitely obtain the satisfaction of getting to know the region and the surroundings of Lourdes in a manner closer to the original God-given way of moving: the mere walk.
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