Visits & promenades surrounding

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>> Le Cirque de Gavarnie.
800 m to the basis and 4000 m to the summit, surrounded by the best "3000" that are the Large Astazous, the Marbore, the peak of the Cascade, the Taillon. A cascade, the highest in Europe. You can go there on foot or to back of donkey. Numerous hikes toward breche de Roland ...
>> Cirque de Troumouse, the biggest (10 km of long, 1km of top) great variety of flowers, paradise of the marmots.

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Tourism office Gavarnie : www.gavarnie.com 

The Pyrenees are exceptional: the massif preserves its fauna as much that its flora. Of very beautiful specimens of rhododendrons, of jonquils, of Ramondia, of edelweiss, of the lily of the Pyrenees,... The massif possesses the hundreds of varieties of plants, close to a third of France. The National Park of Pyrenees is one of the oldest of France (close to 500 Km2s). The izard is an emblematic animal of the Pyrenees. Numerous population of marmots and magnificent birds: Grand Tetras, Lagopedes, bearded gypaete, fawn vulture, falcons,...

Numerous activities are possible in the valley or in the neighboring valleys : cycling, fishing, climbing, soft hikes on average mountain, high mountain: more than 22 summits to 3000 m. Walks on horseback, rafting, canyoning,... clik on the links ...
Jean Louis LECHENE
Mountain guide
 
Walks on horseback ... Fly fishing Pic du Midi

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