Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port
(Donibane Garazi)

Way back in 2000 when I was on vacation, I spent a day and a half in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (known as Donibane Garazi in Basque), and I was very pleased with it. The small town is very nicely situated by the foothills of the Pyrenees, and I got the impression that there are plenty of excursion options in the area. This time I stayed for five wonderfully lazy days. That is, they were lazy from an intellectual point of view. But all days offered physical activity with walks or bicycle tours. I was kind of interested of renting a car, since there appears to be some spectacular natural sights in the close surroundings. But there is no car rental in Saint-Jean, and I just could not muster the energy to rent a car in Bayonne and drive to Saint-Jean - it's only 60 km. Did I say that it was lazy?

There are over 100 pictures from Saint-Jean and the surroundings, and many of them are of the same landscape - or at least the same type of landscape - so there is not very much text. Just browse and enjoy!

Morning Day 1 1. Rolling In	2. Nive Downstream	3. Nive Upstream	4. House in the Morning Fog
5. The Citadel	6. View from the Citadel I	7. View from the Citadel II	8. View from the Citadel III
9. View from the Citadel IV	10. View from the Citadel V	11. The Rapids of Rive	12. The Man and his Dog
13. Bridge to Dive From	14. Old Town	Afternoon Day 1 15. Towards Arrodoy	16. Beautiful Tree
17. Church Ispoure	18. View over Saint-Jean	19. View towards the Mountains	20. Green Grass and White Mountains
21. Up the Hill	22. View over Saint-Jean II	23. Another Valley	24. Lizard
25. Lizard closeup	26. Horses	27. Landscape with Blue Car	28. Close to the Top
29. View from the Peak	30. Pyrenean Landscape	31. Oh, what a Party!	32. Terraces
33. Landscape	34. The Cycling Shepherd	Day 2 35. The Railroad	36. Another Railroad
37. Ascending Jara I	38. Ascending Jara II	39. Ascending Jara III	40. Ascending Jara IV
41. Ascending Jara V	42. Ascending Jara VI	43. Ascending Jara VII	44. Ascending Jara VIII
45. Ascending Jara IX	46. White Flowers	47. Blue Flower	48. Jara
49. On the Top	50. Descending Jara I	51. Descending Jara II	52. Dandelions
53. Descending Jara III	54. Sheep	55. Blue and Yellow Flowers	56. Maroon Rock
57. Descending Jara IV	58. Descending Jara V	59. Descending Jara VI	60. Descending Jara VII
61. Small Blue Flowers	62. Descending Jara VIII	63. Saint-Jean from a Distance	64. House on a Hill
65. Fronton	66. Church, Ascarat	67. Inside the Church	68. The Road to Lasse
69. Down to the River!	70. Hens	71. Rapids at Night	Day 3 72. It's Raining
73. The Old Town	74. The Graveyard in Lasse	75. Around Lasse I	76. Around Lasse II
77. Around Lasse III	78. Around Lasse IV	79. Around Lasse V	80. Around Lasse VI
81. Around Lasse VII	82. Around Lasse VIII	83. Around Lasse IX	84. Horses in a Grove
85. Around Lasse XI	86. Around Lasse XII	87. Around Lasse XIII	88. Around Lasse XIV
89. Bell-Horses	90. Small Violet Flowers	91. Around Lasse XV	92. Rill
93. Around Lasse XVII	Day 4 94. Tour de la Vallée I	95. Tour de la Vallée II	96. White Flowers
97. Saint-Jean-le-Vieux I	98. Saint-Jean-le-Vieux II	99. Tour de la Vallée III	100. Tour de la Vallée IV
101. Lac d'Harriéta	102. Funny Little House	103. Tour de la Vallée VII	104. Church Magdeleine
105. Mrs Goat	106. Mr Goat	107. Goat Jr	108. Old-town Gardens
Day 5 109. Lazy Dogs in Çaro	110. To the Source of Nive I	111. To the Source of Nive II	112. To the Source of Nive III
113. To the Source of Nive IVa	114. To the Source of Nive IVb	115. To the Source of Nive IVc	116. Estérençuby
117. To the Source of Nive V	118. To the Source of Nive VI	119. Bull on the Bridge	120. The Source? I
121. The Source? II	122. The Source? III	123. The Source? IV	124. The Source? V
125. The Source? VI	126. Mountain House I	127. Mountain House II	128. Pig
129. A Final Landscape	130. The Citadel Again	131. Stone Bridge in the Dark	132. Rue d'Espagne

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