Just 20 minutes from Paris, this park lets you walk on water! (Hurry, the installation will soon be removed)

The installation, which consists of a large polymer carpet (a type of plastic) that runs underwater along the 125-metre-wide Grand Canal, lets you walk in the water, in complete safety. It's a very pleasant and particularly refreshing experience, as the thousands of visitors who have been coming here since 3 June have discovered. The attraction is free and can be repeated ad infinitum. What's more, the corridor is 6 metres wide, so there's little chance of you being in the way of other walkers! Make the most of it, as this ephemeral installation will soon be disappearing.

If you arrive through the main entrance to the château, the canal will be on your left. You can see it below from a viewpoint lined with sandstone columns. And the ford in the distance.

Once there, all you have to do is take off your shoes and roll up your trousers. Better still, come in Bermuda shorts and flip-flops. Or just come as you are!

A little shunned by Parisians, the Parc de Sceaux is nevertheless the second largest green space in the Hauts-de-Seine department, accessible by RER train in just a few minutes from the capital. With its expanse of greenery, woods, waterfalls, ponds and pastures grazed by cows and sheep, it has been awarded the "Remarkable Garden" and "Eve" (ecological green space) labels.

This year, Sceaux celebrates the 100th anniversary of the acquisition of the park and its two châteaux by the Hauts-de-Seine Departmental Council. Without it, the park, which was left to lie fallow a century ago, would have been acquired by developers, and would have disappeared in favour of concrete. That was a close one! An important celebration, then. The ford was also set up for the occasion.

As you can see, once the ford has been removed, the Parc de Sceaux will remain a place of oxygen and freshness. You'll still be able to enjoy its pools and waterfalls, but you'll also be able to go boating on its Grand Canal, an initiative that was launched two years ago. This inevitably brings to mind the Palace of Versailles (whose gardens were designed by the same royal landscape gardener: Le Nôtre).

Finally, if you're still looking for something refreshing, there's an ice-cream parlour right next to the château that has been attracting visitors for years.

📍 Location: the Parc de Sceaux is here on Google Map.

🚌 Getting there: RER B, direction Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuses.

👛 Admission: free!

⏰ Times: 1pm to 7pm on weekdays, and 12pm to 7pm at weekends.

👉🏻 The attraction is limited to 200 people.

👨🏻‍🦽 Disabled people: wheelchairs adapted to crossing the Gué will be made available to them.