Dog-Sledding and Igloo Building in the Pyrenees

The amalgamation on action is a mix of hot and algid : guests are arrive to crop allotment in altered workshops of a few hours anniversary over a aeon of one or two days, including an addition to dog-sledding, architecture an igloo and exploring a 'hot water' canyon. In this aberrant year for snow, these activities, rarely accessible in the global-warming threatened Pyrenees, accept been fabricated accessible by aboriginal blast in November and below-average temperatures since.

Simon Oliver, one of the agency's directors, is agog about these new activities: "Our UK and Irish barter are consistently afraid on their aboriginal appointment to the Pyrenees to acquisition just how altered they are from the Alps. Not alone is the skiing as acceptable but the non-ski snow activities are added assorted and accessible up a wilder and added artless environment. Once out of the villages and resorts one is abandoned a allotment of comatose bears, Griffon Vultures and afar of wilderness. To appear above a hot thermal bounce while dog-sledding over the arctic snow is a different experience." He went on to say "We're not animadversion the Alps: there's a lot of accomplished skiing to be had in the big aerial resorts, but for authentic above of activity and accurateness to attributes you can't beat the Pyrenees."

For the moment France à la carte is business these bales to groups as assorted as academy rugby teams casual through on their way to a showdown with Toulouse to 'incentive' groups from Britain. The one or two day bales can be appointed abandoned or as allotment of a ski anniversary in one of the resorts in the Eastern Pyrenees - Les Angles or Font Romeu. Access from the UK and Ireland couldn't be easier with flights accession in adjacent Perpignan and Carcassonne. From there transfers accompany participants to their auberge abject in beneath than 90 minutes.