Sport, culture and tourism by El Transcantábrico

Jesús Castañón Rodríguez

Sea and mountain

The second stage started from Ribadeo to go to the coast, between viaducts, ditches and tunnels towards Trubia.

The grey light over the Eo estuary was becoming clearer and clearer as we go along Tapia de Casariego, the Navia estuary, Luarca, Soto de Luiña, Pravia, Grado…in a romantic view full of green and blue colours.

View from Pravia

Hardly a few hours we went from the sea to the mountain, from the Bay of Biscay to the "Senda del Oso" (the bear path) in the Quirós council. A contrast accentuated by the stop in Trubia, the getting on the bus to go to the recreational areas of La Buyera, between the mountain ranges of Aramo, Sobia and Tameza.

Sergio Cuesta, Óscar Vázquez, Santi Pérez, Chechu Rubiera, Héctor García, Carlos Barredo, Manuel Busto, Rosa Fernández, Javier Villa and Martina de la Puente.

Rocío Ríos, Mario de Sárraga and Jana Smidakova.

Climbing like bears

Sportsman and journalists pedaled strongly along a green path when they got on their mountain-bikes: the "Senda del Oso" (the bear path). This tourist trip, built over an old railway, was carried out by a Transcantábrico expedition for the first time.

The stage between the recreational area of La Buyera and the dam of Valdemurio put to the test the participants' stamina, who climbed like bears the ramps by bicycles. And it had a very special moment, where the race was neutralized: the visit to the enclosure of the bears Paca and Tola.

Later, the expedition went to the refuge of Arrojo, it had lunch in the Valle de Quirós Hotel and paid a visit to the ethnographic Museum of Quirós to remember the legate of the ancestors.

From the train to the active tourism. The "Senda del Oso" (bear path) by mountain-bike and a stop to see the bears Paca and Tola

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