Trekking in Spain - Picos de Europa
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- One-week of excellent walking in the Picos de Europa
- Enjoy spectacular views of deep valleys and limestone crags
- Experience the local flavour at our family-run lodgings
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Our trip begins in the Arrivals Hall at Bilbao Airport (BIO) at 12pm. If you would like an airport transfer today, the latest time your flight can arrive is 11:30am. We will travel together as a group to our hotel in Sotres, a three hour drive away. Sotres is the high...
We start our day with a short transfer to Jito de escarandi (1250 meters/4101 feet) and start our first walk up to Caseton de Andara Refuge at 1725 meters/5660 height. Enjoy magnificent views of the sea and the San Vicente beach before continuing to Collado Tramacondi...
This morning we drive the short distance down to the collection of red-roofed buildings known as Invernales de Cabao and cross the river. Then, ascending along a series of switch-backs, we gain height quickly to reach a viewpoint looking back towards Sotres. The track...
We start this morning with a short drive to Jito de Escarandi from where we start our walk at 1,395m/4,577ft. We follow an old shepherds' paths down through the Valdediezma beech forest and pastures to Sobra Valley and up to Treviso where we will stop for a lunch brea...
Today we drive to Fuente Dé making a visit to the Santo Toribio de Liebana Monastery on the way. We take the cable car up 1,000 metres/3,281 feet to the rugged high plateaux of the Picos to be greeted with panoramic views of the national park. We walk through alpine m...
Today we drive down through Alpine scenery to Puente Poncebos at 218 metres/715 feet. Here the medieval pack horse bridge spans the Cares river. This marks the starting point for the walk through the dramatic gorge of the Garganta del Cares - a cleft over 1000 m/3281 ...
From Sotres we going up to La Caballar by bus. We then start to walk at 1100 metres/3609 feet and walk down to Camba Forest and get to a big group of old huts of Tobaos and Valfrio with a wonderfull views of the central massif. Walk down to Tielve to test the famous c...
Departing the mountains this morning, we drive to Bilbao Airport (BIO) where we will arrive at about 11.30am and this is where the holiday ends. The earliest time you should book a flight to depart today is 1.30pm.
Meals Provided : Breakfast
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Explore! Reviews & Ratings
Trusted Customer
Oct 2023
Trekking in Spain - Picos de Europa
Very well organized, and a superb guide in JuanJo.
Dominic
Oct 2023
Trekking in Spain - Picos de Europa
Juanjo was phenomenal- so welcoming and so helpful, and the hole trip was so well planned and thought out. I couldn’t have wished for a better tour leader on my firs...
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