Quebec: Bas-Saint-Laurent Bike - Freewheeling Adv. - Highlights

Name: Highlights | Quebec: Bas-Saint-Laurent Bike - Freewheeling Adv. | South Shore, Quebec Bike Tours
Brand: RealAdventures
Price: 1,985 $1,985

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This adventure follows easy cycling terrain through a viscerally french, historic area known as the Navigator's Route. Most of the roads are now paved and well-signposted, but you will follow the same path as the first explorers: Jacques Cartier, and founder of Québec City, Samuel de Champlain. The gently rolling, quiet country roads on the southern shore of the mighty Saint Lawrence River takes you to quaint Québeçois villages including five of the '25 Most Beautiful Villages in the Province', and a progression of gastronomic pleasures. You will rest in truly unique places, from the lighthouse on Île Verte, to a cozy, wood-floored mansion set among beautiful gardens. In Trois Pistoles, when the fog rolls in from the river, the jazz bar becomes a favourite retreat, and your idiosyncratic inn will charm you with its rural flair. According to local lore, this is where you can meet the devil if you visit the cross in the gleam of the full moon. As you cycle along the St. Lawrence River's banks, observing the shorebirds and wildlife, admiring the waterfront homes reminiscent of turn-of-the-century seaside resorts, and marvelling at the traditional eel nets reaching out to sea, you might even catch a glimpse of passing whales. In the evening, you can enjoy the sun setting over the Charlevoix Mountains north of the river - rated by the National Geographic as one of the most beautiful sunsets in the world.

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If you want to travel with van support and cheerful, caring guides, and have most of your meals included, a guided trip is the best choice for you. Your luggage is carried for you, and on most days, the guide(s) will pass you in the support vehicle frequently to offer you snacks, drinks, and opportunities to catch a lift. The groups usually congregate for picnic lunches and special affairs, but otherwise tend to spread out along the route during the day, each rider choosing his or her own pace. Because you will be sharing your holiday with other adventurers likely to have a few things in common with you, your evening dinners become enriched by shared stories and entertainment, and you may make friends who will share your future adventure plans.

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Quebec City, South Shore, Quebec

Points of Interest
	Qu Quebec City, , Quebec
	Li'slet L'Islet, QC G0R, Canada
	Kamouraska Kamouraska Regional County Municipality, QC, Canada
	Notre Dame du Portage Notre-Dame-du-Portage, QC G0L, Canada
	Île Verte Route Verte 1, QC, Canada
	Trois-Pistoles Trois-Pistoles, QC, Canada
	Le Bic Le Bic, QC, Canada

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Guided Cost: $2495 per person, includes:
7 days
6 nights
6 breakfasts
4 lunches
4 dinners
ferry to and from Ile Verte
luggage handling
full-time guide
van support
maps and route notes

Self-Guided Cost: $2295 per person, includes:
7 days
6 nights
6 breakfasts
1 dinner
luggage transfers
essential transfers
maps and route notes
emergency support

Rewards apply to any guided trip as advertised, booked directly with Freewheeling. They are not applicable to self-guided, self-supported, private or customized trips, or new departures requested less than six months in advance unless they fill (10ppl+). They can be combined with each other without limit, but cannot be combined with any other discounts, prizes, or rebates.

Referral Rewards
If you have referred new customers to book directly with us since your last Freewheeling Adventure, you are entitled to a reduced cost. Each new guest who mentioned you as a referrer will allow you $125 off your next trip in the same season. Qualifying referrals apply to new guests, excluding family members, who have never traveled with Freewheeling before, and who identify you as 'where they heard about FA'. They apply to your next payment once they have confirmed a scheduled guided trip of five days or more. You can ask your referrals to tell us you recommended us, or you can simply give us their name and contact details yourself. Unless they are already on our list, we will send them our invitation, and once they book, can apply the credit to your next adventure. Please claim the reward when you reserve your next trip, or before your final balance is due.