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Where do you want to ski?

The best mountain destinations for summer

Published: Jul 8, 2022

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1 The Aragonese Pyrenees has so much to offer!

2 A spectacular setting awaits you in the Aran Valley

3 Cerdanya is your family-friendly destination

4 Andorra, the country where everything can come true

Hello, hello, mountain lovers!

It may be that holidays on the beach are wonderful, but sometimes a change of scenery with new experiences and the peace that the mountains give you in summer , can be one of the best plans this year!

If you are passionate about the mountains and you love to share that passion with your family, partner or with your little ones, we have prepared a selection of the best mountain destinations for this summer 2022.

Have you thought that the most trendy combination of this season can also be holidays in the mountains? ️ Yes... Yes... Imagine, bathing in lakes, hiking in the highest mountains, canyoning and adrenaline or simply nights where you can cover yourself with a blanket.

We have made a selective selection of the ideal places to spend a few days with the most special people. They don't have to be the best, but they sure are lovely!

The Aragonese Pyrenees has so much to offer!

It is one of the mountain destinations most benefited by the natural diversity it offers. From areas adorned by enormous landscapes of glacial origin, lush forests, lagoons, rivers and great peaks that undoubtedly leave anyone who visits it stunned.

For this reason, we recommend different plans that cannot be missed on your holiday.

The first of them has to do with its fabulous parks, Monte Perdido and Ordesa , where taking a tour can help you contemplate one of the most beautiful landscapes you have ever imagined .

Beautiful Ordesa

But you can also live different adventures , whether practicing extreme sports such as canyoning , climbing , hiking and even mountain biking in a purely natural environment.

Finally, you have different points of interest in Benasque and Cerler apart from their beautiful valleys, you can also take a walk through the Posets Maladeta Natural Park where the Pico del Aneto is also located. In this park it will be ideal to follow one of the hiking trails while you contemplate the landscape full of lakes.

Esera River in the Posets Maladeta Natural Park

A spectacular setting awaits you in the Aran Valley

Excellence exists in this part of the Aran Valley, which is part of the amazing Pyrenees.

If you like to spend your holidays enjoying a rich gastronomy and being able to admire a beautiful and captivating landscape, here you can enjoy all of it, without neglecting the cultural samples of this territory such as its own language, Aranese . Did you know it?

Vielha the capital of the Aran Valley

Also, if you like outdoor sports , this is undoubtedly one of the best places where you can go on holiday, because it has different routes for hiking, some ski slopes that in summer are the best as those of Baqueira and a great place for rafting down the Garonne River.

You also have different points of interest, very close in the Boí Taüll Valley, a spectacular valley in the Catalan Pyrenees that borders the Arán Valley with the Aigüestortes National Park and Estany de Sant Maurici , another of the tourist enclaves that you will have adjoining the Shire.

One of the 150 lakes in the Aigüestortes and Estany de Sant Maurici National Park

Cerdanya is your family-friendly destination

Our next stop is in the north-central part of the Catalan Pyrenees , right in the town of Baja Cerdanya , where the Molina resort is located very close.

We will also talk about places in Alta Cerdanya, located in France. Do you want to know everything?

La Cerdanya is an ideal place to escape on family holidays at any time of the year, however, in summer it has an added bonus, since the snow does not hinder access.

One of the most familiar and famous proposals is to visit several lakes such as Meranges, Matemale, Bullosas, La Pera and finally Prat del Cadí , where in both places you can observe an alpine landscape also of glacial origin.

Prat del Cadí

We also recommend you to visit the Parc des Animaliers in Les Angles already in the French Pyrenees, it is one of the best visits we can do with children in those regions and you will be able to see animals such as wolves, deer, mountain goats, bears, bison, reindeer and others. species.

To finish with this region, it is essential to visit Puigcerdà and enjoy the cobbled streets together with its lake full of ducks and swans that will surprise you.

Puigcerda

Andorra, the country where everything can come true

It is one of the most important tourist centres on the European continent and the ideal place for a fairytale getaway . There you can do absolutely everything, from the cheapest to the most exclusive!

We start with outdoor sports with hiking trails, check out our last post about 6 easy hiking routes you can try in Andorra.

But not everything will be walking in the mountains, as you have different mountain bike routes or true descents for the brave at the Vallnord Bike Park !

Ready for MTB descents?

Did you know that some of the most important cyclists in the European peloton live in Andorra? Yes… yes, if you are passionate about road biking, there you will find the most demanding mountain passes .

But this is not all, you can also play paintball , 4×4 buggy excursions , zip -line or bungee jumping on the 25-meter-high Molleres de Canillo bridge!

Buggy 4×4

If your plan is to go with the little ones in the 360 EXTREM they will enjoy the most with the jumping zone so that they get tired for a while... On the other hand, in Naturlandia they will freak out and you will too with their star activity, the Tobotron .

You can relax in one of the most famous SPAS in Europe, in Caldea you will find the rest and peace you need if the mountains do not give you enough!

This is what Caldea looks like in summer

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And finally , you can go shopping and try different restaurants places on Meritxell Avenue in the centre of the city.

Surely we will have left many things to do in several of the sites, but we did not want to torture you with a lot of text. But rather focus on the destination with some of the most important things you can do , of course in any of the destinations you can do more activities.

If you liked this news or want to share any of your related experiences in any of these destinations and others, we would love to hear your opinion.

Watch this space! We have super interesting info about ski season 2022/2023 on its way!

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