Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
A wonderful week walking through the spectacular landscapes of Riglos and Alquézar, with dramatic cliffs, soaring vultures, peaceful trails, spring flowers and unforgettable canyon scenery in the Spanish Pre-Pyrenees.
Our friends Dave and Elena are over at the moment with their daughter Evangeline. We all went hiking from Sallent up to the embalse at La Sarra which is a lovely spot. Isabel and Evangeline went in the backpacks and loved it. The spring flowers are really getting...
Ordesa has had lots of snow this winter and you can snowshoe straight from the Pardera car park where there’s several feet of snow. The valley looks beautiful in the snow and I’ve been over there a couple of times in the past few weeks – one time...
Saw my first pair of Egyptian Vultures this year while out cycling near Biescas. Lucky enough to get a couple of good pictures of them strutting around a field. Seems very early in the season to see them – they migrate to north Africa and the Middle East in the...
La Cuniacha animal park keeps animals that are or were once indigenous to the Pyrenees. They’ve lots of rare species including european lynx, bison, iberan ibex, wolves and lots of different types of chamois and deer. It’s a great place to visit any time...
La Cuniacha – the wild animal park in Piedrafita – yesterday announced that they will be opening a vulture feeding station next spring. This is fantastic news and will give Hike Pyrenees guests even more opportunities to see Lammergeier, griffon vultures,...
There’s a workshop and excurison on identifying animal tracks, birds nests, feathers and lots of other interesting stuff this Wednesday at 6pm in Riglos – you need to call and put your name on. It’s a beautiful area with beautiful high red...
The wonderful and very rare Lady’s Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium calceolus) has been in flower again this June. The Valley de Tena is luck enough to have a population of around a dozen of these fantastic plants. It’s one of only 3 populations left in the...
Took advantage of the fantastic weather and hiked between the villages of Sandinies and Piedrafita passing by Ibon de Piedrafita under the cliffs of the Sierra de Partacua. This is actually the final day of our Village to Village walking holiday and a beautiful days...
The warm weather during April and May means that the Pyrenees are already bursting with life and lots of species of wildflowers that I wouldn’t normally expect to see at this time of year are already flowering – these are all photos taken on my hikes over...