YOUR PROGRAM

Day 1:

Arrival in Ajaccio. Transfer to your hotel. Dinner and accommodation.

Day 2:

Departure by coach for Zevaco. Stop at the pass preceding the village, panorama of the Taravu valley. Discovery of a pig farm. Meeting with a beekeeper, presentation of his honey house and tasting. Lunch in a farmhouse. Visit of a delicatessen/cold cuts workshop. Drive to Propriano and Sartène, the most typical of the villages in Corsica. Stop for the discovery of this picturesque medieval city. Continuation to Roccapina to admire the famous lion-shaped rock. Installation at the hotel in the surroundings of Porto-Vecchio. Dinner and accommodation.

Day 3:

Departure to Solenzara and the famous aiguilles de Bavella. Stop to admire this majestic site. Continuation to Zonza and the Ospedale forest. Lunch. Discovery of the extreme south of the island: Bonifacio, built on the side of a white limestone cliff. Visit of the citadel by little train. Free time. Return to the hotel. Dinner and accommodation.

Day 4:

Departure north by Aléria, along the east coast to Bastia. Free discovery of the city. Lunch at the hotel. Small concert of Corsican polyphonic songs in a church. Continuation to Erbalunga and Santa Severa. Installation at the hotel in the surroundings of Macinaggio. Dinner and accommodation.

 Day 5:

Tour of the Cap Corse, from ports to villages: small “marines”, golden beaches and dizzying aplomb. Continuation to Patrimonio. Corsican wine tasting. Continuation through the Agriates desert to Ile Rousse. Lunch. Road to Balagne and its old picturesque villages, surrounded by orchards and olive groves. Continuation to Calvi, a fortified town. Free time in the picturesque old town: Genoese citadel, Saint-Jean-Baptiste church… Installation at the hotel in the surroundings of Calvi. Dinner and accommodation.

Day 6:

Departure to Ponte Leccia and Corte, the historical and cultural capital of the island. Visit of the town and the citadel. Lunch. Continuation to the Scala di Santa Regina, the forests of Valdoniello and Aitone, the Col de Vergio, the Gorges de la Spelunca, the gulf of Porto. Check-in at the hotel in the surrounding area. Dinner and accommodation.

Day 7:

Departure to the creeks of Piana, an extraordinary chaos of red granite rocks. Continuation to the “Greek” village of Cargese, Sagone and Ajaccio. Lunch. Panoramic tour of the Gulf of Ajaccio and the Route des Sanguinaires. Guided walking tour of the old town of Ajaccio including the entrance to the Bonaparte house. Installation at the hotel in the surroundings. Dinner and accommodation.

Day 8:

Depending on flight schedule, transfer to Ajaccio airport. Return flight to Lyon.