On Saturday we went to Durbuy, the smallest city of the world with around 24 colleagues from work for a day full of adventure.
At 9:30 am we were on our way for a 90 minutes drive to our destination, La Ferme de Durbuy. A nice old farm that has been renovated into a hotel/restaurant.

Once there we were welcomed with a fresh glass of orange juice or a coffee for those who still weren’t awake.
After this refreshing moment we walked to the terrain where all the action was taking place. On our way down we had to divide ourselfs into 2 groups.
The first challenge was to find and answer 10 questions that were stapled to the tree’s. We’ve got 9 out of 10 questions right. The other group got 8 questions right.

Our second test was quad-riding . Most of us haven’t ride a quad before (me included) so it was a whole new experience. I thought we are all going to get a quad and then had to drive a 5 to 10km or so.
But I was wrong, there were 2 quad’s waiting and a track with a few curves in it. At first I was very disappointed. We decided that each one of us got to ride 5 to 6 laps before changing riders.
The fastest lap of our group counted for the challenge. We did 1 lap in 23 seconds (our track was still wet). The other group did it in 21.5 seconds on a dry track.
I must say it’s much harder then driving a go-cart.

After this we went to the shooting area to shoot some arrows and bullets.
Around 1pm we had a sandwich lunch to gain some strength for the afternoon challenges.
The first thing we did was the Jungle trail. Walk over some ropes that where spanned in the tree’s at about 9 meters heigh. I thought it was going to be much harder to do this, but it was a fun experience.
The last test we had to do against each other was filling a barrel with water to raise a heavy rock. The water we had to get from the river and then transport it on the fastest way to the assembled “water-transporter”.
It all came down to team work on this exercise. We did it in 17 minutes and the others in 18 minutes.

But then the fun part started, as we finished our test much faster then the other group, we could ride the quads until they got back. And that took forever.
We immediately saw that the dry track would gives us much faster times then when we first drove the quads. On one of my first round I’ve set the fastest time of the day, 20.7 seconds. And after I’ve said this is the last time I’m going to ride the quad for the 7th or so time, the other group came back.

It was time to go to the old farm again but this time we went trough a cave and via a narrow path aside the river. So we had to watch out we didn’t fell in. Once arrived at the farm/hotel/restaurant, we got some drinks to cool down from the walk. About 1 hour later we got invited to sit down at the tables and have a good meal.
At 9pm we all left Durbuy to head home for a nice rest, which I surely needed.

If the people from Durbuy Discovery are reading this, thx for the great day!

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