SJPDP to Bayonne - route map?

[ottoline]

Hi - does anyone know of a route guide for walking from SJPDP to Bayonne? (rather than from Bayonne to SJPDP). i'm starting on the puy and want to link to the norte via Bayonne....

 

[MassNative]

Not quite what you are looking for, as the routes do not go to Bayonne.

But the Cicerone guide to Via Podensis/Le Puy route has guides to two routes from SJPdP to Hendaye/Irun for Le Puy walkers wanting to continue on Norte. One is the GR10. The other less mountainous route, is the Voie Nive Bidassoa.

I have not walked either path, but there is a published guide for them.

 

[mspath]

A detailed French account Liason Roncescalles-Irun, describes walking from near Roncesvalles to Irun following in part the east-west Spanish GR11 trail, local trails and lanes.

For personal/non commercial use I have abstracted and translated into English sections from the French site Liason Roncesvalles-Irun.

If you would like a pdf copy of this translation please PM me.

 

[MikeJS]

If you just want a route go to Mapy.cz and type in start and destination.

 

[Tincatinker]

Hi - does anyone know of a route guide for walking from SJPDP to Bayonne? (rather than from Bayonne to SJPDP). i'm starting on the puy and want to link to the norte via Bayonne....

If you are coming off the Puy why on earth would you want to walk to St Jean before walking backwards to Bayonne. There’s a perfectly good route from Ostabat. Godgle or any other routing app will sort you in

 

[Former member 104756]

@ottoline I can understand why you would like to walk to / visit SJPP. Many, probably most, who walk from Le puy do just that. In fact the path from Ostabat to SJPP is picturesque. No need to be put off if that’s what you’d like to do.

There are forum members who’ve walked the Voie de la Nive - perhaps one or two will chime in - and from memory the pilgrim office in SJPP has information including a map and list of accommodation. Perhaps @Monasp will confirm.

Bon chemin and buen camino.

 

[trecile]

Gite Beilari mentions walking from SJPdP to Irun to connect to the Norte here: https://www.beilari.info/en/camino-del-norte-3/

 

[Vacajoe]

Walked it from the Biarritz/Bayonne airport to SJPdP - lovely walk through Basque Country! I did a LIVE forum update which you can find searching under my name and there are various guides out there in French, but they were outdated when I walked. I would think that the Pilgrim Office in SJPdP would have updated info, but as suggested, a good mapping program will get you through the parts that are poorly waymarked (especially because you are walking in reverse)

 

[Antonius Vaessen]

I walked from SjdP to Irun in 2022. In the pilgrimsoffice in SjdP they had a routedescription but it was only an amorphous unstructured block of text. I found the routefinding sometimes difficult and confusing also due to many different markings from local routes. In the end it was no big problem.
I stayed in a gite in Bidarray, in a private gite from Andy Bleu ( a painter of many blue paintings) and in a B&B in Urrugne

 

[Antonius Vaessen]

I walked from SjdP to Irun in 2022. In the pilgrimsoffice in SjdP they had a routedescription but it was only an amorphous unstructured block of text. I found the routefinding sometimes difficult and confusing also due to many different markings from local routes. In the end it was no big problem.
I stayed in a gite in Bidarray, in a private gite from Andy Bleu ( a painter of many blue paintings) and in a B&B in Urrugne

The gite of Andy Bleu is in Espelette ( I forgot to mention that)

 

[ottoline]

I walked from SjdP to Irun in 2022. In the pilgrimsoffice in SjdP they had a routedescription but it was only an amorphous unstructured block of text. I found the routefinding sometimes difficult and confusing also due to many different markings from local routes. In the end it was no big problem.
I stayed in a gite in Bidarray, in a private gite from Andy Bleu ( a painter of many blue paintings) and in a B&B in Urrugne

thanks

 

[BlackRocker57]

G’Day @ottoline ... at this weblink you will find the maps that you are after ...
<https://www.compostelle.fr/etapes/v...t-hendaye-irun/voie-nive-bidassoa-cartes-pdf/>

This website is maintained by the Association «Amis du Chemin Saint-Jacques des Pyrenées Atlantiques» who run the pilgrim office at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port [Monique et Jean-Marie Aspirot and their team of dedicated volunteers] which you may or may not be family with

The forums page might also be useful to you in planning your journey on this connector route : <https://www.compostelle.fr/forums/>. If you are on FB there are a couple of anglophone groups focussed on the Via Podiensis / Voie du Puy-en-Velay and where you might also find helpful answers to any other questions that you might have re the «Voie de Nive Bidassoa» ... bon preparatifs, bon chemin et Ultreïa

 

[chooleekr]

There is a route in the Pyrenees GR10 that connects Saint Jean Pied de Port to Hendaye. Travel from Hendaye to Irun by foot, Euskotren train and bus. The Euskotren runs every 30 minutes and takes you to Irun in less than 5 minutes.
GR10 kml file download is https://www.gr-infos.com/gr10.htm

 

[john newman]

Google Voie de La Nive.
it was pretty well sign posted with Camino shells in 2019
John

 

[Spurselona]

Instead of starting a new thread I might as well chime in on this.

I'm doing the walk from Le Puy, currently in Cahors, working my way down towards SJPdP in a forthnight or so, and thought I'd do the del Norte as I've already done the CF.
But I am unsure how to do the connect.
What's the nicest route?
Any significant difference in length doing the connect on Spanish side vs French?

I'm not afraid of climbs, they'te my favorite part, but I'm on a somewhat tight schedule and would like to cross over in no more than 3 days and maybe in 2 if possible (if there is a sub 70km connector that's not just tarmac).

 

[john newman]

The GR10 is apparently the nicest route but it’s a bit of a hike along the Pyrenees.
In 2019 I left off at Saint-Palais and went overland on bits of the Voie Nive Bidassoa and bits of Voie de La Côte, but there was also quite a bit of Tarmac.
I stayed at St Esteban, Espelette, and Urrugne, then Irun the next night. So I left out SJPP, because I had already done that twice before.
If you go to SJPP then the Voie de La Nive takes you back up to Biarritz, I think, then you come back down the coast, a bit of a detour. So I took a short cut. It was beautiful and I loved it. Espelette is a tourist town but not a Camino town.
John

 

[john newman]

 

[JeffP]

A detailed French account Liason Roncescalles-Irun, describes walking from near Roncesvalles to Irun following in part the east-west Spanish GR11 trail, local trails and lanes.

For personal/non commercial use I have abstracted and translated into English sections from the French site Liason Roncesvalles-Irun.

If you would like a pdf copy of this translation please PM me.

 

[JeffP]

Please send a pdf copy. Thanks!

 

[JabbaPapa]

The Pilgrim Office in SJPP will have many of the details you're looking for, once you get there.

If you are coming off the Puy why on earth would you want to walk to St Jean before walking backwards to Bayonne.

"Backwards" ?? The main route is through the Nive valley, and SJPP is in that valley.

There’s a perfectly good route from Ostabat. Godgle or any other routing app will sort you in

The only other properly sensible route from the Le Puy Way would be leave it at Navarrenx and then follow the Gave d'Oloron downstream then > Sauveterre-de-Béarn > Sorde l'Abbaye > then parallel to the Adour to Bayonne.

But SJPP > Bayonne has the Camino infrastructure that this route would mostly lack.

 

[JabbaPapa]

Any significant difference in length doing the connect on Spanish side vs French?

Massively lengthier on the Spanish side, and you'd have to navigate multiple Sierras and cross over two mountain ranges instead of nil.

There is one route to avoid Hendaye and so on without too much trouble -- head South-West from Cambo-les-Bains towards Sare, cross the Pyrenees south of there to Bera, then from there to either Irun or Oiartzun, then up to you whether you choose the inland or coastal variant from there.