As i understand it there are 2 routes to get from SJPP to where it crosses the Baztan, the GR10 and Via Nive-Bidassoa.
The GR10 intersects at Ainhoa and the Via Nive -Bidassoa near Souraide?
They both pass through Bidarray?
Are the distances...
This post will help you! https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/the-voie-de-la-nive-aka-camino-roncesvalles.37872/
I walked the Baztan 6 weeks ago with a Camino friend from Leon. I actually started at the beach, because I wanted to...
I found this French website with a list of accommodation at the bottom : description of the GR108.
It might be more expensive than the gîtes on the Camino and everything might not be open in October but it's an option worth exploring.
this...
Hello AML,
For the Ossau Valley and the GR108, I recommend visiting the website of the local Tourist Office:
Office de Tourisme Vallée d'Ossau
And their phone number : +33559053141
my stages in 2012: arudy - laruns, laruns - gabas, gabas - ayous (plus up to pic d'ayous), ayous - canfranc.
I slept in gite parroisal in arudy, gite l'embaradere in laruns, réfuge CAF in gabas (doesn't exist anymore but there are a sort of gite...
If it is not too late in the season (snow), Voie d'Ossau is a beautiful route and delivers you to Somport from the upper side. Lovely villages, pilgrim heritage (from the top of my head at least two hospices, abbaye laique with a portal depicting...
With this closure, it is not easy to reach Somport from Biarritz. By transport, you’d take the train or bus to SJPdP, bus to Pamplona, bus to Jaca, and then a bus to Somport. Of course, you could walk any segment of that.
Yes, this would be an ok solution, but i would miss out on the climb up to Somport.
Also, i dont know how easy it is to get to Somport from Biarritz.
I started another thread on an alternative Camino possibility, Baztan/Frances loop, but it will...
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