Estérençuby: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

The hike to the Grotte d’Harpea in Estérençuby is difficult, covers 14 kilometres as a circular route and takes around five hours. The route begins at the Béhérobie car park in Estérençuby, at an altitude of 327 metres.

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Hiking

The GR10 crosses the Phagaltzeta plateau above Estérençuby; this section connects Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port with the Iraty Forest. The Tour de Gatarre circular hike is 5.9 kilometres long and takes around two hours. The circular hike over the Crêtes d’Ithurranburu is 5.2 kilometres long and takes around one hour and 45 minutes. The La montagne d’Irau route is a circular trail, 12.5 kilometres long, takes around four and a half hours and includes 800 metres of elevation gain.

Landscape

The route over the Crêtes d’Ithurranburu crosses the Pagaltzeta pasture plateau above Estérençuby and offers sweeping views towards Spain. Blonde d’Aquitaine cattle and Manech sheep with black and red heads graze along this route. The La montagne d’Irau route leads through a beech forest and then reaches the summer pastures of Irau.

The Grotte d’Harpea is an anticline formed by the folding of sedimentary layers during the last uplift of the Pyrenees.

Culture

The Tour de Gatarre circular hike includes the Buluntza dolmen, which bears witness to the long-standing pastoral use of these paths. Cromlechs can be found on the 1,345-metre-high Pic d’Errozate in Estérençuby; they are considered some of the highest-altitude cromlechs in the northern Basque Country.

Activities

Recreational fishing on the Nive has been a popular activity in Estérençuby since March. Within the municipality, the young Nive is more like a mountain stream. To fish in the Nive de Béhérobie, visitors can obtain a fishing permit from the AAPPMA APRN (Association des Propriétaires Riverains de la Nive) or the AAPPMA de la Nive.

The Kaskoz kasko cycle route passes through the Orion Forest, then descends to Béhérobie and returns to Estérençuby along the right bank of the Nive.

More destinations: Malaussanne, Moumour, Mourenx, Méharin, Hasparren, Susmiou, Pau, Barcus.

More information about the region: Pyrenees-Atlantiques.