📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
For the very first camp in Aulus les Bains, be prepared for jumping through history, as the municipality offers you to participate in the restoration of the former thermal baths. You will be the first group of international volunteers in the village, and they hope this will lead to rich and numerous exchanges with the local population.
💼 What the programme involves
The village has already started the restoration of the thermal baths, and is expecting the arms and good will of the volunteers to do some visible work : you will be in charge of cleaning and clearing the site from all the brushes and plants that are hiding the baths, removing branches, thorns and else on the walls, removing the green moss from that has settled on the stones. The site you are going to work on is a registered and protected heritage.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be under tents and you will have access to bathrooms and showers. A place to cook will be available too.
📍 About the location
Aulus-les-Bains is a touristic and thermal resort located in the Ariège Pyrenees in Couserans, on river Garbet. It is dominated by Mont Béas (1,903 m) and bordering with Spain (Catalonia - Pallars Sobira). Nestled at an altitude of 750 meters, at the bottom of the Garbet valley, Aulus-les-Bains is an authentic site of Haut Couserans, in the Ariège Pyrenees. The village, grouped around its bell tower, is divided between tradition (top of the pastoral village) and tourism (bottom of the thermal village). It is from Aulus that you will discover the waterfall of Ars, one of the highest in the Pyrenees. Aulus is a land of nature conducive to recreation, sports and fitness, and has a large number of tourist establishments.