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Information and Reservation

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BOOKING AND SALES OF TICKETS:

The Real Fernando booking office is located within the:
BUQUE REAL FERNANDO
FABRICA DE HIELO VISITOR'S CENTRE
Avda. Bajo de Guia, s/n.
11540 Sanlucar de Barrameda (Cadiz-Spain)
Telephone number: +34 956 363 813
Fax: +34 956 362 196
e-mail: info@visitasdonana.com
Open all day (monday to sunday)
April to October : from 9,00 h. to 20,00 h.
November to March : from 9,00 h. to 19,00 h.
Tickects must be booked in advance and collected 30 min. before the departure.
It's recommended to make the reservation.

Filling the following form to request some more information.

Important: This form it doesn´t mean that you have make a reservation.

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It’s recommended to book several days before the visit due to the limited capacity of the ferry boat (94 passangers).

Reservation will be made via fax: +34 956 362 196, telephone: +34 956 363 813 or e-mail: info@visitasdonana.com. The timetables Monday/Sunday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Tickets should be picked up 30 minutes before the departure in our office, located at: Visitor’s Center ¨Fábrica de Hielo ¨, Avda. Bajo de Guía, s/n. (next to the departure point).

DAILY DEPARTURES

November to March: 10,00 hs.
April, May and October: 10,00and 16,00 hs.
June to September: 10,00 and 17,00 hs.

Duration of visits: 3 and a half hours.

Itinerary

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Departure from Bajo de Guía, Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz). The boat sails approximately 13 km. up the Guadalquivir river. The guides on board will explain the different landscapes and wildlife beheld along the voyage.

Landing in "El Poblado de la Plancha" in the National Park of Doñana. There will be a guided tour of about one hour walking and visiting the remaining hunts in "La Plancha". The guide will expose along the visit both the traditional activities and the existent vegetation in the National Park.

Boarding and going on up the river to the next stop. Landing in "Las Salinas", a marshy landscape in the Natural Park of Doñana. This is a guided tour on foot, where the visitor, depending on the season, will enjoy watching the different species of aquatic birds, the visit will last approx. 20 minutes.

Return to Bajo de Guía. During the way back a fim about National Park will be shown on board.

Visits

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The National Park of Doñana is integrated in the National Parks Net located in Spain. Doñana has total surface of 50,720Has., which stand as the most important wetland in Europe, being regarded a reserve of the biosphere by the UNESCO.

The importance of the National Park is due to its ecological and fauna wealth. It takes in more than 250 species and it’s the las refuges of some importand specimens in danger of extinction, like the linx, the imperial eagle and the horned coot. Regarding the landscape, Doñana shows three habitats: the beach, the shifting dunes and the marshes. Each of these habitats show very defined biological and ecological characteristics.

The National Park of Doñana offers a quiet border to the Guadalquivir river, which runs into Sanlúcar de Barrameda. This city gives the visitor a privileged acces to the inside of Doñana whit the boat cruise "Real Fernando", which every day sails up the river towards the National and Natural Park of Doñana.

The visitor who goes to the Park from Bajo de Guía, in Sanlúcar, has the opportunity to enjoy a trip in which he/she will learn about the history and geomorphology of the Guadalquivir river (or big river in Arabic), the most important river in Andalucía. In the course of the trip two stops will be made: the first on the village of "La Plancha" in the National Park of Doñana; the second one in "Las Salinas" (salt marshes), in the Natural Park of Doñana.

The visitors centre "Ice Factory", managed by the Ministry of Environment has two show areas. One of them provides information about the National Park of Doñana whereas, the other one shows the evolution of manhood in this area. The center gives an insight of the important the town of Sanlúcar played in the discovery of the New World.

This visitor’s centre also offers a shop where customers an acquire the most recent publications about Doñana and souvenirs of the National Park.
Address: Bajo Guía s /n.

River Boat

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The "Real Fernando" takes her name from the first steam boat built in Spain. This boat cruise carried out a regular service between Sevilla, Sanlúcar and Cádiz since the 17th July, 1917. Currently tour shows the beauty of the landscape and the wide variety of wild life. The visitor has the chance to see different kinds of binds such as grey herons, sea gulls or mammals like the wild boar that sometimes can be seen on the bank of the Guadalquivir river looking for food.

The "Real Fernando", a boat with the most advanced technology, offers the visitor an audiovisual lounge, a coffee shop on the upper deck, an exhibition room and hiring of binoculars.

Throughout the trip visitors will be attended by skilled guides in Spanish and in English.