Pyrenean Group Holidays

Walking tours and multi-centre holidays

Over the past few years we have organized several holidays customised to specific clients requests. These have included a fortnight split between our two centres and also walking tours across the Hautes Pyrénées staying at hotels or a mixture of hotels and refuges with luggage transported between hotels. The prices of these holidays depend greatly on the itinerary chosen and the number in the group. Contact us if you would like a quotation prepared.

 Malcolm explaining the meaning of the term "undulating".

For 2008, as well as arranging a number of private group holidays, we also have an 11 day trip starting on 26 September with places still available. The tour starts in the village of Asté and finishes at Cauterets after passing through Gavarnie and the National Park. Accommodation is at 2 or 3 star hotels with one night in a recently renovated mountain refuge. The walking will involve days of between 5 and 7 ½ hours walking time and up to 1000 metres of ascent and associated descent. Price per person (sharing) is 865 € and this includes a guide/leader for 10 days, accommodation half board, packed lunches for the first two days, baggage transfer between hotels, transport to the start of the hikes where necessary and airport transfer from Toulouse. For full details and itinerary contact us at gregory.malcolm@wanadoo.fr. 

In addition we can now also propose walking holidays in the Spanish Pyrenees in association with Julien Johnston an International Mountain Guide.  He organises holidays in the Sierra de Guara which is part of the "external ranges" which make up the Pyrenean foothills and is north-west of the town of Huesca. Seen from a distance, the Sierra just looks like a range of high hills, rising to just over 2000m in the west, but closer inspection reveals a great concentration of gorges & canyons which slash through the high plateaux. Landscapes are a startling mix of limestone gorge country and orange "pudding-stone" conglomerate with its weirdly rounded cliffs & pinnacles. In the gorges turquoise waters flow below an incredible number of suspended caves, needles, arches … There's also a surprising mix of Scots pine or even beech forest and Mediterranean oak or maquis, depending on exposure, while lower villages such as Alquezar are surrounded by olive & almond groves. All this makes for great off-season walking, typically on old mule tracks which follow the lips of the gorges before winding down to the valley floor in truly spectacular fashion. Or farm tracks through olive groves. Or narrow paths in the Maquis. For more information & prices contact Julien at j.c.johnston@wanadoo.fr.

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