About us

Mapping the Green Corridors Nobody Advertises

The company began as a research project. Two geographers and a botanist were surveying the surviving gallery forests along four rivers, mostly to record how much had been lost to canalisation and irrigation, and they kept finding stretches of extraordinary quality connected by farm tracks and forgotten paths. Publishing the survey changed nothing on the ground; turning it into walkable routes that brought visitors to village bars in March did rather more, and several municipalities now maintain the paths themselves.

Everything is built on that survey work, updated every year. Routes are measured rather than estimated, water points are marked and checked, shade cover is described honestly because it decides whether a July walk is pleasant or dangerous, and every river crossing is verified after the winter floods. Where a stretch has become impassable or a landowner has withdrawn permission we remove it from the itinerary rather than hoping nobody notices.

We work with about forty small guesthouses, farms and family restaurants along the corridors, all inspected and paid within a week. Guides are from the region, several of them former farmers or foresters who know exactly why an oxbow was cut off in 1962 and what happened to the birds afterwards. A share of each booking funds the replanting of riverbank trees, and guests are welcome to join the winter planting days.