“The morning” invites you to the trip. From west to east, from the north (France) to the south (Spain), the chain of the Pyrenees passes through stages, conducive to hiking, gourmet breaks or contemplation.
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Here are five ways to cross the Pyrenees to reach Spain and its landscapes of olive trees, volcanoes, canyons and ocher cliffs.
by the Esnazu Col, in the footsteps of the Kintoa
Go through the green valley of the Aldudes, great as a handkerchief, it’s really sink into the Basque Country.
The road begins with a long dark and wet parade to Banca, the first village. We must arrive at Aldudes to see the horizon opening: hills and green tufted treetles grazed hills where sheeps of Sheep Manex, Redheads and black. It is here that we must taste the Ossau-Iray, the trout of Banka in the fine pulpit and the pig, the Kintoa, the name inherited from a tax, the Quinta, which had to be carried out, at the XIII e century, the peasants of the valley to access the mountains.
We then crossed the Pyrenees by the Esnazu pass by following a winding road before descending into Spain, to Pamplona . There, you have to take advantage of the capital of Navarre then spin down to Alzuza to visit the Oteiza Museum . Built around the workshop house of the Basque sculptor, it is home to a large part of its work.
By the pass of the pertelet, in the shade of Jean and Pierre
en route to The Ossau Valley , that we go back to the rotalet (1,794 meters). Up there, when the two points of the Pic du Midi d’Ossau (2,884 meters), nicknamed “Jean-Pierre”, are revealed, it is magical. A legend tells that two shepherds called John and Pierre would have been petrified by witches … the collar, we can approach it by amount at pombie refuge . Two hours walk to enjoy an exceptional panorama before descending and resuming the road to the south.
A Biescas, on the other side of the border, you can choose to spin to two other wonders: in the west, the grandscape landscape with golden reflections of the Riglos Mallos, 300-meter high cliffs overlooking the village Riglos; in the east, that of the Ordesa canyon , a long glacial valley that can be browsed by borrowing its fajas, paths dug in the walls upholstered with trees and forms.
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