If you’re looking for family activities, here’s a great one – the Aquarium du Périgord Noir. It is located in Le Bugue which is about an hour drive from our holiday home (a great stopping place on your way to visit Sarlat). Please don’t confuse it with the terrible aquarium closer to Bergerac.. that one is nothing like the one in Le Bugue.

It’s very well organised and is said to be Europe’s largest privately owned Aquariums. It has massive tanks that really allow you to see some of the large species of fish that live in freshwater rivers such as The Dordogne. Kids can feed the carp by hand, there’s a cafe and apparently they are opening (or have opened) an Iguana Park – although this wasn’t there when we visited a couple of years back.

Here’s a few photos:

Check it out – if you are going to Sarlat, then this is on the way. You could also combine it with a canoeing as there are several place in Le Bugue that offer canoe trips.

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