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Events by Day

Saturday, November 24th

• Welcome reception with IGWA organization partners
• Official teams presentation
• Special secret skill event
• Cocktail
• Sleep at lodge

Sunday, November 25th

• IGWA Official launching
• Discovering identity event in town
• Surf event
• Windsurf event
• Golf event
• Snorkeling environmental event
• Top 3 teams enjoy parachuting
• Daily presentation, yellow jersey awarded, cocktails
• Night orienteering event
• Hammock bivouac on beach

Monday, November 26th

• Coasteering event
• Rope skill event
• Orienteering race
• Identity discovering event
• Ecology and kayak event
• Cultural identity discovering event in city
• Daily presentation, yellow jersey awarded, cocktails
• Sleep at lodge

Tuesday, November 27th

• Sea boat trip
• Road discovering event on motorcycle
• Cultural identity discovering event in city
• Coastering race
• Snorkeling environmental events
• Rope skills event
• Environment and orienteering canoeing
• Cultural identies discovering event
• Daily presentation, yellow jersey awarded, cocktails
• Night orienteering event
• Hammock bivouac on beach

Wednesday, November 28th

• Trail race
• Canyoning event
• Environmental trekking in tropical forest
• Identity discovering event in the arrival city
• Daily presentation, yellow jersey awarded, cocktails and dinner
• Sleep at lodge

Thursday, November 29th

• Trail in Guadeloupean mountains
• Cultural identity event
• Cultural identity track
• Daily presentation, yellow jersey awarded, cocktails and dinner

Friday, November 30th

• Sea kayak events
• Cultural idenity track events
• IGWA Final Official Arrival
• Awards, cocktails and dinner

Saturday, December 1st

• Free and restful time in lodge
• Transfer to airport in afternoon
• Flight to San Juan in late afternoon
• Night in San Juan, out in the am to USA

Our Itinerary

The Race - ILES Guadeloupe IGWA Adventure

The IGWA/ILLES GUADELOUPE ADVENTURE is an Adventure and Discovery event of the Guadeloupean Teritory. During a week, 30 international teams (hand selected by the race promoters) will roam about through running, swimming, paddling, discovering or seeking. The race will alternate between adventure-sport events deep inside the landscape and discovery events across towns and villages, experiencing both to feel scents and flavors and to go to meet the inhabitants and learn of their culture while discovering the envirnment and ecology of these amazing islands.

Visit http://www.igwa.net/ for more information on the race, including photos and samples of what we'll be experiencing while in the French Caribbean.

Adventure Stages: Sailing Mountaineering Night sections Funboarding Snorkeling Rope skills Surfing Canyoning Sea Kayaking or Canoeing Horse Riding Sky diving Kite boarding Golfing

Discovery: Inheritance orienteering trail Identity rally Flavor hunt Spirit event Underwater ecology Bird identification

About Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe is a lively center of Creole culture, boasting a spirited blend of French and African influences. As well known for its sugar and rum as for its dive sites and resorts, the archipelago offers an interesting mix of modern cities, rural hamlets, rainforests and secluded beaches.
One of the most urbanized of the region's islands, you'll need to scratch beneath the French polish to get a grip on Guadeloupe's Creole core. Away from the tourist hub, the buzz of insects in the banana groves and the whiff of coconut rum will put you firmly back on Caribbean time.

Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at 16°15′N, 61°35′W, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres (629 sq. mi).[1] It is an overseas department of France. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe is also one of the twenty-six regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic. As part of France, Guadeloupe is part of the European Union; hence its currency is the euro