Day 2: Roscenvalles - Larrasoaña

Winter wonderland, that's the best description I can give you of this day. We have woken to a beautiful winter scenery, everything was covered in white and it had finally stopped snowing. Many of the pilgrim's decided to walk on the road to avoid getting lost due to snow-covered markings, but since we had the GPS tracks, we went for it. I'll let the photos speak for themselves.











We followed animal tracks for most of the way: rabbits, foxes, wild hogs, mice and many others that I could not identify. The silence ruled over those mountains. Even the birds seemed surprised to se us there, letting us get surprisingly close. To be honest, I felt I was in a Disney's movie. As we descended, the snow accumulated on the tree branches started to melt and kept falling on our heads for most of the way.

We stopped for a moment at Zubiri to rest our tired feet and buy something for dinner, after which it started raining. But it only took 5km more to reach Larrasoaña. That night at the albergue there were only five pilgrims, including ourselves: Bernhard, one of the Spaniards from Roncesvalles and another guy doing the Camino by bike. 6€ for a bed and a hot shower, only the essential. And we slept like babies.