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La Maison du Marais, a place of discovery and learning
La Maison du Marais is an interpretation center of the Marais Audomarois resolutely focused on education. It is with our professionals that children will discover an exciting adventure which will tell them the essential: we are all essential to the balance of our environment. Our examples are there to help children become aware of their place in this “chain” and understand that it is essential to respect and protect biodiversity.
The expedition to the heart of the Marais Audomarois with our guides and their bacôves
Duration 1 hour
The most beautiful way to experience nature is to surround yourself with it.
La Maison du Marais guides will take your class aboard their bacôves, traditional flat-bottomed boats, in the heart of the wild area of the Marais Audomarois, paradoxically located less than 1km as the crow flies from the heart of the city.
The bacôves, designed at the time when the marsh was only passable by boat to move loads of up to 4 tonnes, are today the ideal way to explore the narrow winding canals of the Marais Audomarois in small groups. and go to places where our feet cannot take us. There, nature opens its doors to us and reveals its secrets to us, in the greatest calm and in complete safety.
For your class, this will be the ideal place to discover the animal and plant species present in a wetland, the history of this natural space and the town of Saint-Omer which are intimately linked, but also, among other things, the human activity which takes advantage of this formerly impassable place.
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