 Conveying
the true awe of the Pyrenees Mountains with mere words is difficult. We
could describe them as stunning, striking, staggering, stupendous, stirring,
startling, stellar, and stratospheric but still fall 30 adjectives shy
of doing them justice. Or, perhaps, better yet imagine Mother Nature meets
Rodin the sculptor after six bottles of Beaujolais. Either way you just
have to believe us when we say our tours there will bedazzle your mind.
Located in southern France along the Spanish border the Pyrenees stretch
from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Mediterranean Sea in the east.
In between are snow-topped peaks and lush valleys packed with history
and culture. The Tour de France's famed mountain as cents over Col du
Tourmalet and Col d`Aspin take place here.
Lourdes,  one
of the world's most significant Catholic shrines where the Virgin Mary
was reported to have appeared in 1858, stands as one of Europe's biggest
attractions. And the Cathedrale Ste-Marie-de-Comminges, the Mont-St-Michel
of the Pyrenees, is just one of many architectural monuments in the region.
And, of course, there is scenery. The Cirque de Gavarnie, a jagged amphitheatre
of peaks accented by the longest waterfall in Europe (1,388 meters/1,388
feet), towers as the supermodel of the Pyrenees. Author Victor Hugo described
them as an "incredible coliseum of chaos." See? Even famed writers
have difficulty properly describing these mountains. |
