The valley of the River Nive is the only public-transport artery southeast into the Basque interior, with four or five trains a day making the riverside journey from Bayonne to St-Jean-Pied-de-Port in about an hour. The luminous green landscape on the approach to the mountains is scattered with villages untouched by speculative development, and remains as peaceful and harmonious as in the lowlands.
Pages in section ‘Valley of the Nive’: Cambo-les-Bains (Kambo), Espelette, Bidarray, St-Jean-Pied-de-Port, Estérençuby.
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