Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
Last autumn Pablo and myself guided our Riglos and Alquezar hiking holiday – one of my favourite itineraries exploring two spectacular hiking areas – both perfect for spring and autumn hiking adventures with great scenery, lovely villages, hotels and restaurants,
Ibon de Piedrafita is in a beautiful spot under the cliffs of the Sierra de Partacua and yesterday I headed up there with Berute – a friend from the village. In summer this is a really popular walk with guests on our walking holidays but I’d never seen it...
2012’s drawing to a close – it’s been a great year here in the Pyrenees and I thought it would be a good time to show some of our favourite photo’s from this summer – there’s lot’s of photos of our guests so see if you can...
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,...
Snow finally arrived to the Pyrenees last week so we took advantage of some great weather Saturday to get out onto the snow for the first time this season. Rafa and I headed up to the border at Portalet which is a great place for snow-shoeing, skiing and generally...
A new interprative trail has opened in the eastern French Pyrenees celebrating the watercolours of the Scottish architect/artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The trail features 30 reproductions of Mackintosh’s work placed where he painted them from allowing you to...
Ryan Air flights from London Stansted to Zaragoza are now on sale. Our transfers meet the flights on Sundays with flight times as follows: Outbound journey Depart Stansted: 16.45 Arrive Zaragoza: 19.55 Return journey Depart Zaragoza: 20.20 Arrive Stansted: 21.35...
There are several versions of the legend of Hercules forming of the Pyrenees. The one I’ve read recently involved Atlas and Hercules – two of the most powerful gods. Atlas lived happily in his city of Atlantis. He had a peacful and placid caracter....
The summer 2012 season is over and we’d like to thank all of our guests for making it another fantastic summer for Hike Pyrenees. We got up same great peaks, saw fantasic flowers and wildlife, ate plenty of tapas and had a fantastic time showing you all the...
I’ve wanted to do some of the peaks of the Sierra de Tendeñera and yesterday finally got up there. It’s a magnificent 12km long ridge with imposing cliffs on both the north and the south. We approached from Ibon de Asnos up the north slopes. It was pretty...