The Rough Guide to The Pyrenees 4

by Dubin, Marc; Catlos, Brian; Chilton, Lance

• ISBN13: 9781858287010
• ISBN10: 1858287014
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-09
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
PART ONE BASICS	1	(86)
Getting there: from Britain	3	(15)
from Ireland	9	(2)
from North America	11	(4)
from Australia and New Zealand	15	(3)
Red tape and visas	18	(2)
Costs, money and banks	20	(4)
Insurance	24	(1)
Health matters	25	(2)
Information and maps	27	(4)
Getting around	31	(8)
Accommodation	39	(6)
Eating and drinking	45	(17)
Communications and the media	62	(5)
Opening hours and public holidays	67	(2)
Festivals	69	(3)
Trouble, police and sexual harassment	72	(3)
The great outdoors	75	(9)
Directory	84	(3)
PART TWO THE GUIDE	87	(422)
The Eastern Pyrenees	89	(96)
Perpignan	95	(6)
The Aude Valley	101	(3)
The Lower Tet	104	(5)
The Canigou Massif	109	(5)
The Upper Tet	114	(5)
The Capcir	119	(2)
The Tech valley and the Alberes	121	(9)
The Cote Vermeille	130	(7)
The Costa Brava	137	(9)
Figueres and around	146	(6)
Girona and around	152	(7)
The Fluvia valley and the Garrotxa	159	(13)
El Ripolles	172	(11)
Travel details	183	(2)
Andorra and Around	185	(63)
The Cadi-Moixero Park	190	(1)
Approaches from Ripoll	191	(4)
Berga and around	195	(2)
The Serra del Cadi	197	(5)
La Seu d'Urgell and around	202	(3)
Andorra	205	(12)
The Cerdanya	217	(6)
The Cerdagne	223	(4)
The Carlit Massif	227	(6)
Ax-les-Thermes and around	233	(2)
Tarascon-sur-Ariege and its caves	235	(4)
Foix	239	(2)
The Pays de Sault	241	(5)
Travel details	246	(2)
The Val d'Aran Region	248	(79)
The Montcalm-Estats massif	249	(3)
The Vicdessos Valley	252	(4)
The Noguera Pallaresa	256	(8)
The Val d'Aran	264	(10)
The Aiguestortes-Sant Maurici region	274	(4)
Approaches to Aiguestortes	278	(6)
Walking in Aiguestortes	284	(2)
The Esera valley	286	(7)
Maladeta climbs and walks	293	(2)
Posets climbs and walks	295	(5)
The Valle de Chistau	300	(3)
The Couserans	303	(1)
Saint-Girons and Saint-Lizier	303	(4)
Mas d'Azil	307	(1)
The ``Empty Quarter''	308	(23)
The northern approaches	331	(3)
The Vallee d'Aure	334	(8)
The Baronnies	342
Around the National Parks	327	(110)
Bagneres-de-Bigorre	344	(2)
Upstream from Bagneres	346	(4)
Tarbes	350	(2)
Lourdes and around	352	(4)
The upper gave de Pau	356	(3)
Luz-Saint-Sauveur	359	(2)
Bareges	361	(3)
The Gavarnie region	364	(8)
Cauterets	372	(4)
Pau	376	(5)
The Ossau and Aspe valleys	381	(14)
The southern approaches	395	(3)
The eastern valleys	398	(10)
The Valle de Ordesa and around	408	(3)
Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido	411	(4)
The Valle de Tena and around	415	(5)
Jaca and around	420	(8)
Huesca, Barbastro and the Sierra de Guara	428	(7)
Travel details	435
The Comminges	315	(4)
Bagneres-de-Luchon	319	(7)
Travel details	326	(111)
The Western Pyrenees	437	(72)
The Echo and Anso valleys	444	(7)
The Valle de Roncal and Parque Natural Pirenaico Larra-Belagoa	451	(4)
Gorges of the Haute-Soule	455	(3)
The Irati Forest	458	(2)
The Valle de Salazar	460	(3)
Auritze	463	(3)
Roncesvalles	466	(2)
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port	468	(3)
Baigorri and the Vallee des Aldudes	471	(2)
The Valle de Baztan	473	(2)
Through Labourd to the coast	475	(4)
Bayonne	479	(4)
Biarritz	483	(5)
Saint-Jean-de-Luz and around	488	(3)
Hendaye	491	(2)
Irun and around	493	(4)
San Sebastian	497	(9)
Travel details	506	(3)
PART THREE CONTEXTS	509	(49)
History	511	(19)
Wildlife	530	(6)
The Environment	536	(4)
Books	540	(6)
Language	546	(9)
Glossary	555	(3)
Index	558