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The walk takes you to the hermitage of Notre-Dame de Vie at an altitude of 668 meters. Above the beautifully restored chapel is a cave that you can reach along a path that is secured with a steel cable. Sacrifices were made in the cave before 1060 until a Christian had the hermitage built to chase the Gentiles away. In the cave you have a stunning view of the valley of the Têt and the mountains of the Conflent.
The walk leaves in the beautiful village of Nyer to the abandoned hamlet of En. In the hamlet you should definitely visit the restored bread oven and the washing place. From the hamlet you walk a little further to the Romanesque Chapel d'En. The chapel is located on a beautiful grassy plain with a view of the Têt valley.
A beautiful and shady walk that follows the course of the river Cady to the waterfall of Cady. The fast-flowing river rises on the Canigou and crashes down through a rugged gorge.
This walk in the Réserve Naturelle de Py introduces you to the wild nature that the shepherds had to face again and again in the past. In the Catalan dialect, a shepherd is called a pastor. The walk leads you through a beautiful and rugged nature past several sheepfold ruins and herders' huts like Cantapoc. Chamois, wild boar and the genet cat live in this nature reserve.
This gem leaves from the reservoir of Bouillouses and first goes through a pine forest take you to no less than nine mountain lakes at the foot of the Pic Carlit (2931 meters). To do the tour you really have to take your time.
This hike goes through the picturesque gorges of the Carança on paths carved in steep cliffs, along dizzying depths, over suspension bridges and footbridges with the backdrop of a turbulent mountain stream. At the Pont de Pierre you see a small waterfall of the Torrent Roig.
At the top you get a three star panorama on all surrounding mountains but especially on the massif of the Canigou with its 2784 meters the highest mountain in the region. You also have a beautiful view of the valley of the Têt and the nature reserves of Py and Mantet. Don't forget to write something in the log hidden in the old microwave oven!
A nice walk in the nature reserve of Mantet to the unmanned refuge de l'Alemany at an altitude of 1968 meters. A little past the refuge you come to the ruins of the Baraque des Allemands. This was a building built by German troops during World War II. It served as a checkpoint to catch people trying to cross the border into Spain.