A week-long trekking holiday into the beautiful high mountain scenery of the Picos de Europa National Park. Explore the area in depth with walks in the unspoilt and wild landscapes of the western, central and eastern massifs. Itineraries on some departure dates may differ, please select the itinerary that you wish to explore.
We will travel together as a group to our hotel in Sotres, a three hour drive away. Sotres is the highest village in the Picos, situated between the central and eastern massifs and within the designated Biosphere Reserve. It is an ideal base for exploring the spectacular mountain landscape. After settling in we have a home cooked dinner included at our family ran hotel.
Casa Cipriano Hotel or similar. Grade: Comfortable Hotel. We start our day with a short transfer to El Collado de la Caballar 1,m , the starting point for today's walk.
We start with a gentle descent to Tobaos Majada m then start our ascent to Collado de Pasadoir 1,m. We follow the ridge through the pastures of Portudera,Todrin and Tambrin with some spectacular views weather permitting along the ridge of all three massifs before we start our descent to the outskirts of the Arenas de Cabrales - here we join and follow an original cobbled roman road for one and a half kilometres, returning to Sotres for the night.
Today's 17 kilometre walk is expected to take around seven hours with approximately metres of ascent and metres of descent. 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 levels out now, ascending more gradually onto a plateau. Here stands the tiny hamlet of Pandebano, where, in AD, a battle took place between the Visigothic Christians and the remnants of a somewhat depleted Moorish army.
