BASQUE COUNTRY

                                                                    Roncevalles - GR 65

Tips: It’s (from Holland) quite a drive to our destination and a lot of euros for the French highways . We walked a part of the Grande Randonnée 65, the Pyrenees-cross, through the Spanish and France Basque Country, also known as the Chemin de St.Jacques, the Camino, St. Jacob’s way, the pilgrim-route from and to Santiago de Compostela …...….The route is, especially in the Spanish part, well marked, including all the pilgrim-symptoms and curiosities .

Maps: We had a pilgrim guide and a GR65 map, in French, to buy everywhere on the route.

Accommodation:  Plenty, with and without the pilgrims, at the farm, a Gite d’ étappe, a castle, the hotel, the Gites ruraux, whatever you want (to pay) .

Easter 2005: a part of the GR65, the Pyrenees cross.

Height: 120 tot 1456 m. Pleas don’t underestimate the Roncevalles-St.Jean Pied de Port section. We even saw walkers on sandels! going to meet the snow and the pass…..

Day 1: Larrasoaina (Sp)-Roncevalles(Sp)

Day 2: Roncevalles (Sp)-St.Jean Pied de Port (Fr)

Day 3: St.Jean Pied de Port-Ostabat

Day 4: Ostabat-Lichos

Day 5: Lichos-Navarrenx
Total   :  ±120km.

On the route: At Easter melting snow in the mountains on height, fine Basque villages, the Roncevalles monasteries, splendid panoramas, the eagles, the old town center of  St.Jean Pied de Port, the castle in Navarrenx and - still going down - green meadows, sheep, farmsteads…..

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