ACTIVITIES IN PICOS DE EUROPA

Nature, active tourism and pure air in full Picos de Europa

If you like to walk, just two km away is the recreational area “El Llanu Miyar”, near Demués. And from the nearby town of Gamonedo, origin of the Denomination of the cheese that bears his name, leave several routes. One of them leads in an hour and a half to Lake Ercina so it is an alternative to buses that go up to the Lakes.

Hiking and trekking

Recommended walking route from the Hotel: Climb to Los Lagos de Covadonga by the old path of the shepherds of the port, where Gamoneu cheese is made.

This is the way that the pastors of Onís use to raise the cattle to the pastures of the port. And it is there where they make Gamoneu cheese, with denomination of origin and later they cure it in the caves.

Drops in Canoa

The descent by canoe of the Sella River is one of the adventure sports that begins in the town of Arriondas, from the same bridge that the canoes on the day of the competition, and is realized in an estimated time of three to four hours, counting Stops and breaks. All the necessary equipment will be provided as well as a watertight drum with a tasty picnic.

Monitors will teach a course with the basic notions of paddle and canoe, as well as the course. Once the tour is finished, participants will be transferred to the starting point, where they have changing rooms and showers. You will need: bathing clothes, wet shoes, towel and dry clothes to change. The minimum age for the descent is 5 years.

Vias ferrata

With the company of guides specialized and equipped with the necessary security material, we will cross with total security the vertical walls and the tibetanos bridges in the ferrata routes of the gorge of the Hermida.

Canyoning and canyons

We will also have the experience of discovering nature in its wildest state, a landscape hardly observable from another point of view with its plants, birds, rocks with incredible shapes, the chiaroscuro of the sun in the gates.