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Kayak adventures at sea Experience world-class kayaking in Bohuslän. Combining health and wellbeing with fantastic nature, Nautopp Kajakcenter Grebbestad offers courses, excursions and even yoga for kayakers.
yoga weekend for women including yoga, massage and a day with paddling, as well as a class on how to cook with seaweed.
By Malin Norman | Photos: Lena Gustafsson
Guests can also try the trendy stand-up paddle (SUP) board as well as SUP yoga, and a SUP excursion with an overnight stay on one of the islands in the archipelago. This autumn, this kayak-loving team will further expand the yoga part of the offering, and also add new, exciting destinations.
have more dynamic waters further out. And there is no tide, which is unique.”
Set up in 2005, and based in Lysekil for many years, Nautopp Kajakcenter Grebbestad eventually moved to the fishing village of Grebbestad in 2016. Bohuslän is considered by many to be the world’s most beautiful archipelago, so Nautopp has certainly found the right spot. Here, the team focuses on training and experiences for kayak paddlers, with courses for beginners and more advanced kayakers such as rough-water handling and private lessons as well as guided and self-guided excursions in the archipelago, including overnight stays.
Together with Torbjörn Söderholm, she runs the centre and emphasises their strong focus on professionalism and safety for kayakers. Thus, all guides have international qualifications, such as from British Canoeing. In addition to kayaking courses and guided tours, the couple offers a wide range of leading brands in their kayak store and organises kayaking trips abroad, for instance to the Outer Hebrides and the Shetland Islands.
“Grebbestad is the perfect location for us, with its marine wildlife and all the beautiful islands,” says owner and instructor Kathrine Olufsen and elaborates further on the suitable location. “It’s easily accessible and the inner archipelago offers protected paddling, while we also
As part of their concept of health and wellbeing in combination with fantastic nature, Nautopp also offers yoga on the jetty for sea kayakers under the name Yogaflow & Äventyr (Yogaflow & Adventure). At the end of August and again at the end of September, there will be a special
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