# Mimizan

Mimizan is a village in Les Landes.

## Get in

Fly to Bordeaux or Biarritz
There is no airport in Mimizan, therefore you can arrive by the airport Bordeaux-Mérignac, which is at 120 km of Mimizan or by the airport Biarritz-Pays Basque at 124 km of Mimizan. After you can take the train until the SNCF train station of Labouheyre, which is at 27 km of Mimizan, and arrive to in bus with the line 13.

## Get around

Work up an appetite for the fantastic local food and burn off some calories: cycle! Cheap to rent (€14 a day), numerous local hire stores. Or, you could increase the carbon footprint and drive.
To get around Mimizan you can use the car or the bike, which is in rental; or use the Mimiz's Bus, which is a free shuttle, it's convenient and economic.

## See

Amazing forests gently dropping needles onto miles and miles of sand, lashed by Atlantic storms generating fantastic surf.
You can see many beautiful things in this city. There ar la promenade fleurie in a park, the beach of course, the history museum of priory and bell tower porch, the heritage house, the gascogne paper, the Aureilhan lake, l'église du Bourg or again the church: Saint-Martin.
* 44.0936-1.316671 Contis lighthouse (Phare de Contis). (updated Nov 2019)

## Do

Surf, cycle, walk and generally soak up the slower pace of life on the South West coast. Visit tucked away hamlets, snd eat the €10 formule menu.
What to do in Mimizan? It is easy, you can surf your best wave, for it, there are many surf schools: l'école de surf la garluche, silver coast, Mimizan surf academy or Mimizan bodyboard academy. You can walk in discovery trail, have fun to the stelsia Casino, go to the equestrian center Marina to pass a good time with horses. You can fly in the air with skydiving with OJB Parachutisme or the flydream.

## Buy

To have a memory of your holidays you can buy many jewels to les Fées Créations or to Dodie's. You can buy clothes to: Victime de la mode. For the fan of video game, you can go to Océans games.

## Eat

* Lopez City, Avenue Maurice Martin, ☏ +33 558824157. Small restaurant near the beach. For lunch you can have pizzas and for dinner seafood and other dishes.

## Drink

* $^{[deadlink]}$ Bar Américain (BA), Rue Brémontier, ☏ +33 558093924. 22:00-05:00. Club where young people meet during the night. This club offers nice live music with video projection.
* Pili Pili, Avenue Maurice Martin, ☏ +33 558094711. 12:00-02:00. Music bar next to the beach. It often offers live music and DJ performances.

## Sleep

* Camping du Lac, Avenue de Woolsack (6 km from ocean.), ☏ +33 558090121. Check-out: 11:00. Nice campsite next to the lake. The toilet and showers are simple but clean and always available. There is also a small bar restaurant open almost all the day. from €9.
* Camping de la Plage, Boulevard de l'Atlantique (800 m from ocean), ☏ +33 558090032. Campsite next to the beach. Due to its location, this campsite is often full. from €9.

## Understand

Mimizan had 7,000 inhabitants. There is a beach of 10 km facing the Atlantic ocean. This beach is divide in two parts: south and north, which each have beaches. To the north, there are the remember beach, the Ailes's beach and the garluche's beach. To the south there are the goëlands's beach, the mouettes's beach, the south beach and the lespecier's beach.