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Selfguided Trekking Pyrenees, High Mountain in the Border Spain-France
offered by supplier M18412 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 8
day(s)
Group Size: 2
- 10
people
Destination(s):
Spain
Specialty Categories:
Hiking & Trekking
Ecotourism
Season: January - December
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 770 Euro (EUR)
Maximum Per Person Price: 770 Euro (EUR)
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Oak and rivet forests, down to valleys or rock mountains with lakes and iced valleys. It goes through the border with France and we will learn some history of wars, exiled, bandits or smugglers.
* Level: High
* Luggage: Leave your luggage closed at reception and we will transfer it to your next accommodation after the walk.
* Accommodation: 2*-3* hotels and charming agro tourism houses.
* Meals: Half board, except two days on bed and breakfast basis.
Recommended period: All year except from winter snowy weather season.
* Optional:
- 2 nights in Barcelona: Hotel 2* located in the city centre, on bed and breakfast. Transfers from Girona to Barcelona or from Barcelona to the Airport are not included.
- 2 nights in Núria: two nights accommodation in the unique hotel placed in the Valley of Núria with unlimited transfers with the zip train. 3* hotel from where there are several indicated itineraries to go walking.
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: In the hotel there will be the road book and identification labels for the luggage. The charming Camprodon village has two rivers and invites you to discover it by long walks. Dinner is not included. In Camprodon there are many restaurants.
Day 2: 16,3km – 4h. After breakfast, leave your luggage closed at reception. Start the track walking north, towards the Garrotxa; climate, plants and animals will change. In this itinerary you will find beautiful Romanesque churches, oak forests and Beget valley nice views. Accommodation and dinner in Beget.
Day 3: 22km – 6h. After breakfast. This track is the longest. Leave your luggage in reception. Start walking through the valley of the Rocabruna river. On the way there are a couple of restaurants where to have a snack. Also you will go across many typical bridges, a humid Mediterranean forest, the mill of “Molí de Sorolla” and the Rocabruna castle, whose town you will finally reach. In Rocabruna town there is a Romanesque church of the 12th Century. The path goes up to the border with France and there are abandoned mines. You finally reach the French village of Prats de Molló, with a fort, a castle and a church. Dinner and accommodation in Prats de Molló.
Day 4: 17,2km – 5h15. Breakfast. Leave your luggage in reception. Towards the Torre del Mir tower, leave behind Prats de Molló. The path goes up between pine and beech forests. “Torre del Mir” is a controlling tower from a medieval set composed by 3 towers. There are impressive views over Prats de Molló and the Canigó massif. Dinner and accommodation in Molló.
Day 5: 13,25km - 3h20. After breakfast, leave your luggage in the reception and start walking a track that shows you in detail the valley of Camprodon. There are wide views as the track is elevated. It finishes with the walk to Setcases. Dinner and accomodation in Setcases.
Day 6: 13,26km - 3h45. Breakfast. Leave your luggage at the reception. Staff from the hotel will drive you by car to the path that goes to the refuge of Ull deTer. Going up to 2.700m with a wonderful view over the oriental Pyrenees, specially over the northern valleys with its lakes and lagoons. A little bit further is “Núria”, a sanctuary located in a round glacier surrounded by mountains at 2.800m high, only reachable by walking or rack train, wich dates of 1931, or on foot. From Nuria you must take this rack train to Ribes de Fresser, it leaves each hour until 18.30 h. Accommodation. Dinner included.
Day 7: Breakfast. Free day to enjoy from this nice village or to take the rack train up to Nuria and do some circular routes which are marked. Accomodation. Dinner is not included, you have some good restaurants in Ribes.
Day 8: Breakfast and check out from the hotel. From Ribes you have the possibility to take a train to Girona or Barcelona.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Price Includes:
- Accommodation in 2*-3* hotels and agro tourism houses.
- Road books in French, English and Spanish.
- Luggage transfers.
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