River Cruise - Baise
Baise
Type : River, quiet and shady. Mostly tree-lined.
Locks : 21 in 65km. Most are operated using a smart-card system.
Speed limit : 6kph
Along the way
- 4.5 km - Buzet-sur-Baise -Village 800m from the canal. Quays on right and left bank.
- 11 km - Feugarolles - Village 600m from the canal. Moorings and quay.
- 12 km - Trenquéléon Château - Right bank
- 14.2 km - Vianne - Fortified village. Pontoon moorings. Friday evening market in the town square.
- 17.2 km - Roman arch on right bank near Lavadac bridge
- 17.3 km - Lavadac - Village with quay near village centre. Good restaurants and fishmongers.
Street market on Wednesdays - 18.7km - Restaurant located just beyond the railway viaduct. Has moorings
- 20.6 km - Castle on left bank
- 22 km - Castle on left bank
- 25 km - Nérac - Charming town with quays. The château above the river is now the local history museum. Street market on Saturday mornings.
- 37.8 km - Bridge, Lasserre village and castle 2km on right bank
- 42.3 km - Moncrabeau - Village with bridge-side moorings on right bank. Waterways museum and gallery of Impressionist paintings.
- 53 km - Condom - Town with quay and moorings. Cathedral and Armanac museum.
- 54.5 km - Condom public park ends here. Mill House restaurant.
- 58.5 km - Graziac Lock - a restored two-rise staircase lock with lock keepers.
- 62 km - Flaran bridge with moorings and Abbaye de Flaran 200m away. It is a 12th century cistercian abbey that is open to the public.
- 63.3 km - Valance-sur-Baïse - Fortified town set on the cliff, with good moorings by the road bridge
