6-day Picos de Europa Family Walking Holidays

Arrival at your cozy guesthouse accommodation in a tiny village in Cabrales. Within minutes, you'll begin to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere of these beautiful surroundings.

Challenge: Settle into your new "home for a week" and meet your S-Cape agent.

Villages along the way: Arenas de Cabrales, Sotres, Berodia, Inguanzo or Ortiguero

For this week, you will choose from a variety of walks and/or activities to enjoy summer pastures with stone barns, cool woods, high meadows with wild flowers, rushing streams and rocky areas with bizarre limestone formations. Included are 10 different hiking routes in the Picos, with different distances and degrees of difficulty, a canyonning activity (NOTE: this activity has age restrictions, it can be changed to a canoeing activity if children are smaller than 8 years old), and a visit to a dairy.

Today you can choose among the hiking routes that are proposed, depending on your preferences and the weather forecast.

Villages along the way: Arenas de Cabrales, Sotres, Tielve, Bulnes, Poncebos, Tielve, Berodia

An exciting canyoning excursion is the plan for today. This activity is organized by local companies who are specialized in Active Tourism. They’ll provide you with the necessary instruction, as well as the gear you'll need. Activities are run by qualified guides. For families with children under 8 years old, there is an option of booking a canoeing activity along the Deva River.

Villages along the way: Arenas de Cabrales

Today, you have once again a range of routes to choose from, but remember: you can also organise on your own visit to a local dairy. The cheese dairy is localted in Sotres and you can book a guided visit (in Spanish) at 12:00, at 16:00 or at 18:00 hrs. The owners of  "Quesería Maín" will show you alll about the process to make Cabrales cheese and will take you for a 10 minute walk to the cheese cave where the Cabrales cheese is left to age and mature. Last, but not least, there will be a tasting session of three different types of Asturian cheese, to finish this tasty experience!

Villages along the way: Sotres

Today you can choose among the hiking routes that are proposed, depending on your preferences and the weather forecast. Enjoy your last day in Picos walking through summer pastures with stone barns, cool woods, high meadows with wild flowers, rushing streams and rocky areas with bizarre limestone formations. 

Villages along the way: Arenas de Cabrales, Sotres, Bulnes, Poncebos, Berodia

Today you say farewell to the Picos after breakfast. Remeber to leave your guest house before 12 hrs.

You have the choice to extend your trip 2 more nights and go with your family to the biggest mountain refuge in Picos de Europa, located at the base of the stunning Picu Urrielly peak, in the very heart of Picos de Europa. For more information see: Picos de Europa short break • 3 days