DutchHiker
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- Aug 19, 2014
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- March 2015 Baztanés>Frances>Salvatore>Primitivo>Finisterre
Feb 2016 Mazarabe
Thank you so much for this. We planned on walking the Baztanés for our first Camino in 2013, but friends in the Basque country discouraged us, for our first Camino. Walked from Roncesvalles 2013 and then from Pamplona 2014. Your info is encouraging me to investigate Baztanés for 2015, although ages will be 76 and 67.Hi DutchHiker, after reading your post I contacted a girl I met in 2012 on the Frances but who walked the Batzan this year and asked her for any info, this is her reply.
"Ok. I'll do my best to finish my account of my adventure. I started in Bayonne and finished in Pamplona. There is some bush bashing. The best and most accurate info you can find is on Eroski Consumer. If you google Eroski Consumer Camino Batzanes you will get good info. Be smarter than me and really explore the website and do take note of the details. Silly me just took the maps and relied on the English guide (1 page only). This website will provide lots of detail. Do book ahead the accommodation particularly the in Bayonne and Ustaritz. The 2nd day, the arrows are sometimes hard to find and sometimes non existent. That is why I would strongly advise you to translate the Spanish guide. I completely missed a village and I got lost. I'll tell you more later."
http://caminodesantiago.consumer.es/los-caminos-de-santiago/baztanes/
Hi DutchHiker, after reading your post I contacted a girl I met in 2012 on the Frances but who walked the Batzan this year and asked her for any info, this is her reply.
"Ok. I'll do my best to finish my account of my adventure. I started in Bayonne and finished in Pamplona. There is some bush bashing. The best and most accurate info you can find is on Eroski Consumer. If you google Eroski Consumer Camino Batzanes you will get good info. Be smarter than me and really explore the website and do take note of the details. Silly me just took the maps and relied on the English guide (1 page only). This website will provide lots of detail. Do book ahead the accommodation particularly the in Bayonne and Ustaritz. The 2nd day, the arrows are sometimes hard to find and sometimes non existent. That is why I would strongly advise you to translate the Spanish guide. I completely missed a village and I got lost. I'll tell you more later."
http://caminodesantiago.consumer.es/los-caminos-de-santiago/baztanes/
Thanks DutchHiker, do you have a link to peregrina2000's translation of the Spanish guide.Thank you for the information. I have found the Eroski Consumer website and more interesting I have downloaded the Eroski App on my iPhone. This should help me. Further I digged up a translation of the Spanish guide that was published by peregrina2000 on this forum:
the following Spanish websites are interesting
http://www.consorciobertiz.org/consorcio/camino-desantiago.html
http://tourism.euskadi.net/contenidos/informacion/x65_folletos/en_x65/folletos/2011/santiago/Caminos del Norte INGLES.pdf
http://www.rutasnavarra.com/Rutas/
http://www.gronze.com/camino-de-santiago/caminos/el-camino-de-baztan
http://www.caminodelbaztan.com/#!home/c1uel
I have ordered a guide but not received it:
http://www.editorialbuencamino.com/...-santiago-incluye-tambien-aragones-y-baztanes
the following France websites are interesting
vppyr.free.fr/pages_transversales/ruta_baztan/vpp_ruta_baztan.htm
http://www.xacobeo.fr/ZE1.11.Aqu.Baz_e_1.htm
the following videos of "baztangolaguna"
the following GPS tracks
http://pilgrim.peterrobins.co.uk/routes/details/baztan.html
http://www.xacobeo.fr/ZE3.03.Baz_GPS_Perso.htm
Here you are:Thanks DutchHiker, do you have a link to peregrina2000's translation of the Spanish guide.
Thank you.Here you are:
Translation of Spanish guide to Baztan