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Basque Country 32

Feisty and independent, the Basque Country is famous for the glitzy
resort of Biarritz. But on this tour you’ll also fall for delightful
fishing ports, chocolate-box villages and jade-green rolling hills.

TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
7 DAYS
30 km 117KM / 73 MILES
St-Jean de Luz
Taste traditional #lL
Basque seafood # GREAT FOR…
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dishes Bayonne
13 km HBG
Biarritz
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# Treat yourself to tapas BEST TIME TO GO
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and watch surfers
tackle the waves September and
October offer the
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Sare # # of weather and low
Ainhoa crowds.
I ESSENTIAL
72 km PHOTO
Espelette Looking across
Potter about a St-Étienne Grande Plage in
picturesque Basque de Baïgorry # Biarritz from the
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village m K southern headland.
St-Jean Pied de Port BEST FOR
Walk in the footsteps K CULTURE
of millions of pilgrims
Absorbing the Basque
117 km spirit of old Bayonne.
B Location Caption details to go hereayonne Festive flags in the streets 351