Rent a canoe or kayak

Before you launch yourself into the water without falling in, we advise you to bring along the marsh nautical chart, which you’ll find at several sales outlets including the Tourist Office or Maison du Marais, essential for finding your way around during navigation, but also for locating the nine public piers.

These departure points are specially fitted out for launching, generally wooden pontoons flush with the water. As the marsh is as vast as the city of Lille, you’ll have a choice between the eastern marsh, a market-garden section with pretty vegetable gardens, and the western marsh, with its Flemish longshes and heronries. Depending on which you choose, the landscape is a little different, but the pleasure of slaloming between the watergangs remains the same wherever you go.