Friday, November 2, 2007

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Pyrenees Magic

Just a strange year this ... There have been many changes, intended or not, but then so is life ... maybe even his beautiful, so some say, and in some respects they are right. Of course, in some fields may happen with a little less speed, but there is no remedy at all, and what better than a nice way to remedy a few things:-D.



For the reasons mentioned earlier, I found myself booking a trip to the last moment ... where do I go now?? ... Here, Pyrenees Magic 2007, a little tough holiday in terms of the length of the sections ... but I think I get along, actually a little bit trained.


another short trip with adventures in the world, hopefully good.


Meeting in Genoa and then we wait a long Travel by train to Gavarnie in France, the starting point of our trek.

Gavarnie From now you can admire the famous Cirque de Gavarnie, a set of elliptical mountains above the valley floor. full of waterfalls, the highest is "the great waterfall, about 422 meters high.

After a few hours of walking we reach the refuge de la Breche (2587 m asl) located just below the Brèche de Roland (Roland's Gap), a great rift in the rock of 40m wide and 100m high, which legend says was done by Orlando with a sword during the battle of Roncesvalles he fled from the Saracens.


arrived, the first thing is to mount faccimao tents (one begins to feel the freschino!!). In the evening a good meal in a shelter and finally playing the game of pork, which is to repeat the things he has said the player before you, if you mess up becoming the first quarter of pigs, and no one can talk or look (penalty also becomes a quarter of a pig) while continuing to play .. get to a point that is really hard not to fall into the traps of the players, like ... "Sorry but what is that thing that hangs from the hair ?.... how you can help but speak to me ....?? pay !!!!". Then let us not forget the game animals ... now we were about to throw out from the shelter:-D!




morning of August 10, wake up early, numb from the freezing cold that I suffered in the night (the tent was a layer of ice on it), I closed my eyes (while the others slept like a little angel .... I envied them.), we are reaching the Brèche and come to the canyon of Ordesa.


Canyon a truly fascinating. Although there have never been, it seemed to be in an American park, those who are always seen in the photos.

We continue to walk in day after day the group will always find a little more, always joking and laughing, and it is only the beginning.


The beauty of these trips is that you can wander for hours laughing and joking, or slow down the pace and totally immerse yourself in the beauty of nature and listen to your body, all muscle movements, wandering with the mind in places where normally we are not accustomed to travel, and know that just a look straight in the eyes of a traveling companion to find out who is trying the same things. In fact someone told me a sentence that impressed me very much .... actually the people you meet on these trips, while being unknown (at least), they are people you've known forever, simply because they share with you great emotions and passions.

A sentence of a Leonardo da Vinci hit me and I want her back here:

" What moves you, or man, to leave your own home cities, and leave them to relatives and friends, and go to lochia rural mountains and valleys, if not the natural beauty of the world? ".

It 's too true, and I hope that makes many think.


About natural beauty, look at what offers the fauna of the Pyrenees, not that we are there ... but let me bulla some photos I took:-D ... Beautiful is not it? By vo leave you with some mouth watering and I hope soon to continue the description of this journey, which has enriched me greatly both as images, which will always remain in my mind, is known to people who allow me to say ... We were only kids!!