Hello,

We’re heading to Quebec in just over a week to meet up with our son, a young adult on a Working Holiday Visa who’s been there for nearly a year 🙂🙂🙂 and I still have a few questions:

1) We’re starting with 3 nights near Shawinigan (Lac à la Tortue). The day after we arrive, we’ll have a relaxed day with one or two activities (sugar shack in St-Mathieu-du-Parc? A seaplane ride?). Any other suggestions? (Besides Parc de la Mauricie, which we’ll visit the next day.)

2) Then, we’ll head to Quebec City via the Chemin du Roy, where we’ll spend 3 nights, followed by a scenic drive to La Malbaie. We’ll be staying in St-Aimé-des-Lacs near Hautes-Gorges de la Malbaie National Park for another 3 nights. One day will be dedicated to hiking in the park—likely the Acropole des Draveurs for our son, and the Riverain trail plus two shorter walks for my husband and me, since he can’t use hiking poles. So, I’m unsure about the second day: should we go back to the park for the cruise, or do something else nearby? Any suggestions?

3) After St-Aimé-des-Lacs, we’ll spend 3 nights in Tadoussac. We’ll definitely stop at Port-au-Persil, but since the drive isn’t too long, we’ll arrive pretty quickly (I think you say "rendu" here 😉). I was thinking of exploring Tadoussac that day, doing the Pointe de l’Islet trail, the Estuary trail, and the Dunes lookout. The second day, we’d head toward Les Bergeronnes and Les Escoumins to visit the interpretation center and take a Zodiac cruise. I was considering Neptune because they offer covered boats. Any other options? And on the third day, we’d go to Sainte-Rose-du-Nord via the Saguenay Fjord National Park’s Baie Sainte-Marguerite sector to hike part of the "Le Fjord" trail from the Beluga Observation Center. I’m aware this trail requires a park access fee. However, I just realized that the trails we planned for the first day (Estuary and Pointe de l’Islet) are also part of the Tadoussac sector of the park. Do we need to pay the access fee (10.10 CAD) for these two short trails? If so, it might make sense to do them on the third day. In that case, can we pay the fee in Tadoussac, then head to the Baie Sainte-Marguerite sector and use the same ticket?

Feel free to share any thoughts or suggestions!

Claire

bonjour, nous partons à Montréal tout le mois de juillet en famille (avec nos deux garçons 10 et 6 ans) où nous serons logés. Nous souhaitons aller à Tadoussac. Comment s'y rendre (nous pensons au bus), y a-t-il une compagnie particulière à partir de Montréal ? Quel en sera la prix ? Commbien de temps pouvons-nous rester à Tadoussac (nous pensons y rester deux nuits) ? Quel type de logement serait le plus économique ? Merci d'avance !!!

Bonjour,

Je voulais savoir si il fallait mieux prendre le relais Nordik ou l'avion pour se rendre à Blanc Sablon ? 😛

Merci

Hello,

On a flight from Paris to Montreal, since the aircraft trajectories pass quite a bit to the north (maybe even too much...), is there any chance of spotting this very special phenomenon from your seat on the plane? That is, the combined result of a meteorite impact dating back about 214 million years and Hydro-Québec’s major works in the 1960s and beyond on the Manicouagan for massive electricity production, which flooded and highlighted the valleys and topographic trenches? A few years ago, I somewhat naively asked "Totem Aviation," based near Les Escoumins and offering light aircraft flyovers above the Manic-5 dam. They told me the altitude needed to observe the entire phenomenon was way too high for them... 🤪 On geographical maps, it’s absolutely spectacular! 😮

Urgent : Bonjour, je suis une fervente du Québec, peut-être que vous aussi.😉 Cette année, je pars avec ma famille, nous sommes 6 personnes, plus éventuellement 2 ou 3 Québécois. Notre idée est de visiter la centrale Manic 5, mais mi-septembre elle est fermée à la visite, sauf si il y a un groupe de 15 personnes. Nous serons à Manic 5 le : vendredi 19 après-midi ou le samedi 20 matin septembre 2014. Si vous êtes dans le même cas, de ne pouvoir faire le visite, je vous donne rendez-vous le 18 ou le 19 septembre. Au plaisir de vous lire et peut-être de rencontrer pour former un groupe de 15 personnes.