Dordogne Mayhem is without doubt one of the best Mountain Biking Trails in the Dordogne. Dordogne Mayhem offers numerous loops that can be combined with each other. This trail(s) is a one way system, so serious riders can open up without the fear of having someone coming the opposite direction. Depending on each individuals preference, there are unlimited possibilities, from very fast single tracks, sharp and mild switchbacks, numerous whoopie doo’s, and even a section for the downhill warriors ( this section requires full body armour and full suspension bike)
Anyone looking to spend a few hours of Mountain Biking fun in the Dordogne, should seriously consider this trail.
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For info about Mountain Biking in the Dordogne visit www.walkingdordogne.com

Visitors from around the world are coming to the Dordogne, not for the Prehistoric sites, or Medieval Towns and Villages, No, they are coming to Mountain Bike.
Since some of Walking Dordogne’s Mountain Biking Videos were posted on various sites such as YouTube and Mountain Bike Mayhem interest in their tours have gone through the roof.

Walking Dordogne is very secretive about their Trails, but, as Duke from Walking Dordogne states,

this is because we have spent years putting these unique trails together, and a lot of our trails are actually on private property.

Walking Dordogne’s notorious rides are :

•The Devils Play Ground
•Satan’s Fury
•Devils Backbone
•Valley of Revenge
•Hells Gorge

Walking Dordogne are planning to launch two Dordogne “EPIC” trails, an EPIC Trail is a trail that will take a whole day (if lucky) to complete, usually aboy 8+ hours.
These 2 EPICS will be finalized in about November, and will be added to the 2010 list of trips / tours.

To make it easier for Mountain Bikers around the world to find mountain biking in the Dordogne info, Walking Dordogne has launched a “Mountain Biking Dordogne” web page : www.mountainbikingdordogne.com

For all other Walking Dordogne Tours and Trips visit : www.walkingdordogne.com

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Aquitaine Bike the cycle hire and cycling tour base in the Dordogne. They are located in the Perigord Noir, near the confluence of the rivers Dordogne and Vezere. The best way to explore the Dordogne Region is by bicycle. Aquitaine Bike’s rent 24-speed Cannondale and 24-speed Trek hybrid/touring bikes. These lightweight, high performance bikes are ideal for the country roads in the Perigord and surrounding area.

We can say without doubt that the best cycling conditions are to be found in the Dordogne: quiet country roads to suit all levels of riding, beautiful scenery, and one of the cleanest rivers in Europe to cool off in… La Dordogne. Weather conditions here are great for riding from April to November.

Since 2000, Aquitaine Bike has organized cycling tours throughout France and Spain and worked as consultants to U.S. and British bicycle touring companies. Alongside their bike hire services, they specialize in self-guided custom tours in the Dordogne. Their system and organisation of these cycling tours keep costs to a minimum. Check out their Touring page for details. You can find suggestions for accommodation on the Where to Stay page.

The routes and itineraries that Aquitaine Bike design are the result of 20 years of personal cycling experience in the region and 10 years of client feedback.

Visit their Southwest France Tour page for information on our self-guided trip across Aquitaine, from the Dordogne to the Basque Country.

The Dordogne, or Perigord region, is a treasure of natural beauty, prehistory, history, architecture, and gourmet cuisine built around such delicacies as foie gras, the famous black truffle, walnuts, and fresh strawberries. Magnificent feudal and renaissance castles, prehistoric cave art, quiet country roads linking charming honey-coloured stone villages, meandering rivers, and dense oak and chestnut forests full with deer and wild boar. This magical land will enchant you!

Aquitaine Bike are fully insured and listed with the Ministry of Health, Youth, and Sports, reference number 02407ET0126.

Robert and Amy Owensmith
24220 Coux et Bigaroque, France
Email: aquitainebike@gmail.com
Tel / Fax: +33 (0) 553.30.35.17

For more info visit: www.aquitainebike.com

Aquitaine Bike is highly recommended by

• B&B Ferme de Tayac : www.fermedetayac.com
• Scenic Dordogne : www.scenicdordogne.com
• Walking Dordogne : www.walkingdordogne.com
• Les Eyzies Tourist Info : www.leseyzies-tourist.info
• The Dordogne : www.thedordogne.com
• Dordogne Tourist Info : www.dordognetourist.info
• Duke of Dordogne : www.dukeofdordogne.com
• High on Mountain Biking : www.highonmountainbiking.com

The Duke of Dordogne has just launched a new personal website listing some very useful sites that he uses to promote the Dordogne.
Any and every Dordogne website owner should take a look and see all the options of advertising yourself on one or more of his sites.
The Duke specializes in promoting the Dordogne with more than 30 Dordogne related and high ranking sites that target people interested and looking for information about the Dordogne.

Web design, logo / graphics, web hosting, domain names, database driven websites, site maintenance, Complete SEO, site submiting  and lots more.

For Dordogne accommodation advertising, link exchange, article advertising, review advertising, photo gallery advertising, Free advertising, Package advertising, you name it, the Duke will arrange it.

Let the Duke  of Dordogne put you on the web.

For more ifo : www.dukeofdordogne.com

For more ifo : www.dukeofdordogne.com 

Please forward this link to anyone you know in the Dordogne, that has a website, they will thank you it.

Dordogne Design has just launched a stunning new site that shows off the Vezere Valley in the Dordogne like you have never seen it before.
Beautiful photo’s taken on Walking Dordogne’s  famous trips exploring the Vezere Valley.

For more info visit : www.thevezerevalley.com

Dordogne Design have launched yet another Dordogne Web site. http://www.thedordogne.com/ is a web site that will take you on an image tour of the Dordogne.

This site was made possible thanks to the dedication of a few people to promote the beautiful Dordogne region. Please take the time to visit their websites.

• B&B Ferme de Tayac, for 3 years now, this B&B in a 12th century former farmhouse / monastery in the heart of the Vezere Valley, has been voted the travellers choice of accommodation.http://www.fermedetayac.com/
• Dordogne Design has a Dordogne web site portfolio of more than 30 related sites promoting the Dordogne. If you have a Dordogne related buisness, and would like to make full potential use of the web, then Dordogne Design is the place to be.http://www.dordognedesign.com/
• Walking Dordogne has been taking the very lucky few visitors to places in the Dordogne we can only dream of. If you want to experience the REAL Dordogne, rather than just visit the Dordogne, the head to their web site, check their trips, and maybe one day you will be one of the lucky ones.http://www.walkingdordogne.com/

For more info visit : http://www.thedordogne.com/

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In the early 12th century 6 Monks from the Monastery of Paunat were travelling between Monasteries when one of the Monks became very ill, they set up camp in Tayac near a water source. The monk was dieing, but miraculously healed after drinking the water from the “Tayac Source”. To the Monks of Paunat this was a “Sign” and round about 1123 they started building the magnificent and fortified church of Tayac, they called it “St Martin”. At the same time, the Monks of Paunat started working the land in this lush Vezere valley, they built the farmhouse / monastery, which is now “Ferme de Tayac” that has been completely renovated, and is now a lovely B&B opposite the church. For hundreds of years the Monks lived here and worked the lands, bit by bit houses were built against the rock. The water from the “Tayac Source” was taken to other surrounding Monasteries, for it’s healing powers, Tayac was thriving. Two centuries later, things took a turn, wars were breaking out, armies were constantly attacking areas and strongholds. Religion and all that went with it lost it’s power, and very slowly the life in and around Tayac became what it is today. St. Martin still stands proud, and is without doubt the nicest Fortified Church in the Perigord, the “Tayac Source” is still there, although no longer in use.

 

Most people visiting the Vezere and Dordogne Valley have an interest in history, so why not stay a few nights in an historic B&B in the heart of it all?. B&B Ferme de Tayac, a 12th century former farmhouse / monastery ideally situated in Les Eyzies de Tayac, in the heart of the Vezere Valley, known as the “Prehistoric Capital of the World”  B&B Ferme de Tayac is a must place to stay if you are visiting the Dordogne, since it officially opened to the public 2 years ago, it has been rated the #1 B&B accommodation both years running. B&B Ferme de Tayac is a 12th Century former Monastery farmhouse, lived in and run by the Monks who owned and worked the land for hundreds of years. Located in the heart of the Vezere Valley in the picturesque small village of Tayac, just 8 minutes walk from the center of Les Eyzies. In 2001 Suzanne & Mike purchased Ferme de Tayac after it had been unoccupied for over 10 years. It was in a sorry state, and was deemed dangerous and a hazzard. It took Suzanne & Mike 7 years to bring Ferme de Tayac back to it’s former glory. With among other things, meter thick walls, rooms built into solid rock, oak beam structures, and bedrooms in former monks quarters make Ferme de Tayac a speacial and very unique place to stay whilst visiting the Dordogne, and it is not hard to see why Ferme de Tayac has been the travellers choice of accommodation for 2 years. For more and updated info on Ferme de Tayac please visit their official web site http://www.fermedetayac.com/

 

Read travellers reviews about Ferme de Tayac:

 

The beautiful picturesque Les Eyzies de Tayac in the heart of the Vezere Valley was home to our ancestors over 460000 years ago.
Why did our ancestors, who where nomads, and used to be constantly on the move, decide to make this area their home?
During the ice age troops of large herbivores such as reindeer, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses took refuge in the Aquitaine Basin.
Even at the height of the ice age, a thin line of greenery ran along the Vezere River.With an abundance of animals, fish, wood, flint, and plenty of shelters and cave the Vezere Valley soon became home to Neanderthals and later Cro Magnon.

Today, millions of people from all around the world come to Les Eyzies and the Vezere Valley known as the Prehistoric Capital of the World to visit famous sites such as the caves of Font de Gaume, the Combarelles, Lascaux, the National Prehistoric Museum and lots more.

It was here in Les Eyzies de Tayac in 1868 that the link was discovered between Prehistoric Man and Modern man.

For more info visit : www.leseyzies-info.com

Planning a visit to Les Eyzies de Tayac or  the Vezere or Dordogne Valley? then leseyzies.info is definitely a site you should take a look at.
Find out what and where the main attractions are, when to go, when not to go, history, accommodation, les eyzies and dordogne related articles and lots of other useful info every visitor should know before they visit the area.

More than 450.000 years our ancestors chose and settled in the Vezere Valley .. thats correct, Les Eyzies de Tayac is where our ancestors called home, and it was here that in 1868 the link between Prehistoric Man, and Modern Man was discoverd.

The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 animal figures, which are remarkable for their detail, rich colours and lifelike quality.

The Vezere Valley and Les Eyzies should be on everyone’s wish list, but it is only the lucky ones that actually make it back.

For more info : www.leseyzies.info

The Duke of Dordogne is on a 20th century crusade, scouring the internet in search of the best and most informative Dordogne related sites and articles.

If you know of any Dordogne related sites or articles, let the Duke know about them and if appropriate it will be added to The Duke of Dordogne.

For more info visit : www.dukeofdordogne.com