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Sea Kayak and Wild Camp in Corsica
- France
- 6 nights
Paddle through turquoise waters and wild camp on secret beaches in the Mediterranean
What's Included?
- Maximum group size: 12Join small n’ sociable groups of like-minded, active and outdoorsy people – designed to be solo-friendly
From…excluding flights
Highlights
Kayak through calm crystalline sea along Corsica's dramatic south coast to hidden coves and remote bays
Wild swim in dreamy waters, sleep in an old lighthouse and bivvy on white sand beaches under the stars
A wild week out in the elements, washing in the sea each morning and cooking dinners on the beach as the sun goes down
Itinerary
Day 1
Welcome to Corsica
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Meet your host at Ajaccio Airport and head straight to the Gulf of Ajaccio. Load up the kayaks and go through a briefing with your guides before practising your paddling around the rocks of the Castagna peninsula. The expedition gets underway with a paddle to Arena Rossa, dinner and a night on the beach for your first taste of Corsican bivvying.
Day 2
To Cala di Muru
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Wake up beneath your bivvy for the first time, grab an early morning swim and breakfast before paddling to Valinco Bay, exploring the coastline and reaching a little cala of sand in the heart of the rocky cathedral of Capo di Muro. Tuck into lunch and enjoy a short swim in the turquoise sea, then continue on between rock formations and small sandy coves before spending the night on the beach of Cala di Muru.
Day 3
Porto Pollo fishing village
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In the swing of things now, set off for a day of paddling, alternating between the dark basalt rocky capes and turquoise bays lined with white sand. Relax for lunch in the shade of the Corsican pines in Cupabia Bay, before paddling on to the charming fishing village of Porto Pollo where you'll spend the night on one of its beautiful beaches.
Day 4
Cross the Gulf of Valinco
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Paddling further south as the coast gets wilder, you'll cross the Gulf of Valinco enjoying an amazing paddle past cliffs and tafoni rock formations. Enjoy a relaxed lunch and swim on the gorgeous beach of Portigliolo. You'll pass some amazing granite rocks in the afternoon before reaching Campomoro for tonight's bivvy spot.
Day 5
Heading further south
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Wake, swim, eat, paddle, repeat. Load up the kayaks and head south, stopping for a while at the picture-postcard beach of Cala di Conca. This afternoon the landscape changes radically as you approach the cliffs at Capu di Senetosa, a beautiful cape formed by thousands of years of coastal erosion. You'll spend the night in a former lighthouse on the cape with incredible views over the Mediterranean.
Day 6
Erbaju Beach
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Wake up in the lighthouse, enjoy breakfast with a view and stretch your legs around the cape before hitting the water again, reaching Tizzano to stop for supplies before heading to the beautiful beach of Erbaju. This part of Corsica is famous for its crystalline waters which you'll soak up this afternoon, paddling around the coves for sumptuous swim spots and finding one last wild camp spot for your final night sleeping out beneath the stars.
Day 7
The final stretch
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Wake up for the last time in a secret Corsican cove, and dive in the sea for a final morning swim before packing up and loading the kayak for the final push. You'll paddle past an amazing series of rock formations, including the famous lion of Roccapina and its wonderful bay. Kayak on to Olmeto Tower (a Genoese ruin) and your final stop, Fornello Bay, where your adventure comes to an end. Your host will drive you from here back to Ajaccio in time for your onward flight in the evening, or drop you off in town if you are staying on longer in Corsica (as you well should!).
Practical Stuff
Getting There
- Nearest airport
- Ajaccio-Napoléon Bonaparte Airport (AJA)
- Pick up
- Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport
14:30 - Drop off
- Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport
16:30
What is and isn't Included?
What's included
Local, English-speaking kayak guides
6 nights wild camping
Munch on tasty local food throughout
To and from the airport and everything in between
All your kayaking equipment and tarp setup for bivvying
All permits
What's not included
You know your own spending habits best, so please budget an appropriate amount for things like optional meals and drinks, shopping, optional activities, and laundry.
Where You'll Stay
Private room upgrades are not available on this trip due to the nature of the accommodation.
Bivvying on beaches
What You'll Eat
Breakfast on the beach each day, with coffee and orange juice, bread with marmalade and honey, and 'quatre quart' - a type of classic French cake. Lunches are always a big salad with a rice, semolina or pasta base with various vegetables. Dinners at…
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Before You Travel
What to Pack
Know before you go! Some stuff we'll provide, other things you'll need to bring.
FAQs
How much should I tip?
Tips are not included in the trip cost. These are entirely at your discretion. Your guide will help with advice on how much to tip. Of course, you are free to tip more or less, and the amount should be reflective of your perception of service and quality - a tip is not compulsory and should only be given when you receive excellent service.
What do I do about drinking water?
This is an expedition-style kayaking trip, so the group will distribute various essentials between the kayaks. Your host will provide large water containers which will be filled up at various stops throughout the adventure. Please bring along a reusable water bottle to keep filling up from the large water containers.
Can I leave my excess luggage somewhere?
Absolutely. Anything you don't need can be left with your host at their base in Ajaccio and collected when the trip is finished.
Can I book on my own?
Sure can! Over 70% of our travellers travel solo, it’s a great way to meet like-minded people.
Who is running the trip?
Our team of Adventure Hunters co-create exclusive adventures which are run by highly vetted, specialist hosts. The trip is run by our trusted host partner in the destination. We only work with independent, local, in-destination experts who know the very best places to explore and how to stay safe. Read more information about the local teams we partner with. You’ll be introduced to the host straight after making a booking via the Much Better Adventures platform.
What is the official travel advice?
Much Better Adventures refer to the UK Government’s official travel advice when designing trips and monitoring trip operations. We recommend that all customers are familiar with the practical information provided on the Government’s FCDO website, where current travel advice can be found by searching for the applicable destination(s).
For customers joining this trip from other international destinations – please also read the official travel advice applicable to your country of residence/origin, as this may differ.
What vaccinations do I need?
We recommend checking out the country-specific information and also talking to a travel nurse.
How are the trips priced?
We automatically convert prices from the local currency that a host receives to your chosen currency. We update our exchange rates on a daily basis so this does mean that prices displayed on the site are subject to currency fluctuations, which is why you may see them change over time.
If you wish to change the currency you pay in, head to the bottom of the page.
Why are your adventures only for adults?
All of our group adventures are specially designed for adults to enjoy as we want these adventures to bring together outdoorsy people who are truly like-minded. You must be over 18 to join one of our trips.
Who else will be on my trip?
You're always in good company on one of our adventures.
Our trips are typically made up of a mixture of solo travellers and small groups of 2 or 3 friends, with most in their 30s-50s.
Our sociable adventures are solo-friendly by design and naturally attract outdoorsy people with a shared mindset; a love for adventure, a desire to push themselves and meet awesome, like-minded people along the way. Check out our Community Values – a shared code to make sure that everyone's experience is safe, inclusive and brilliantly unforgettable.
It’s this camaraderie that has so often turned a great adventure into a life-changing one.
Don't just take our word for it:
- 95% of people rate the group dynamics on our trips 5/5
- 90% of people recommend joining a trip to make new friends
- 75% of people have met people on our trips that they would now consider friends
See here for more info about the Much Better Adventures tribe.
What's the carbon footprint for this trip?
We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity.
What's the number?
It works out on average at 65kg of CO2 emissions per person, including all local transport, accommodation, food, activities, guides, staff and office operations.
The only thing it doesn’t include right now is flights and travel to the destination. We do make an overall estimate across all our customers separately, but as we don’t book flights, have customers from all corners of the world, and no way of reliably knowing their travel plans, we simply can’t include an individual number in the figure on display here. We’ve got a goal to fix that, so that when you book, there is a way to measure and mitigate the carbon emitted by your flight too.
But what does the number mean?
Yep, hard to picture eh? To give you an idea:
- Driving 1000 miles/1609km would be approximately 281kg of CO2 in an average car (or 140.5kg per person, if there were two of you in it).
- A return economy class flight between London and New York would be approximately 1619kg (1.66 tonnes) per person.
- 10 trees in a temperate forest are estimated to remove approximately 250kg of CO2 from the air in a period of 5-10 years.
What are we doing about it?
Our trips are relatively low-carbon by design, and we're working with all our hosts to develop long term carbon reduction plans. We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity, ensuring the protection of the reserve and its wildlife.
Want to know more?
Amazingly, no international travel company has ever publicly published their carbon measurements before, as far as we know. We believe that must change, quickly. So we’re openly sharing the method we used in the hope that other companies will be able to more easily follow suit and build on what we've done so far. You'll find it all here.
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