📌 (0h00min; 0 kms) Coll de l’Ullat (948m). Next to the hostel there is a horizontal path that we will follow in a southerly direction. After 15 minutes, the path widens again and connects with a track that descends to the Ras pass, but instead of following it, we will avoid taking some shortcuts.

📌 (0h35min; 2.0 kms) Coll del Ras (723m). Without going out onto the road, we will follow the path that runs parallel above it. At a sharp bend in the road, the path splits and descends between the trees in a zigzagging pattern, until it reaches a track that comes from San Martín de la Albera and that we will follow straight ahead (South), not towards the town. Comfortably along the track, we will pass the coll de l’Alzina and then the…

📌 (1h30min; 6.0 kms) Collada del Pla de l’Arca (630m). The track starts to descend sharply. We will descend about 600m to a steep turn, where another track and a path parallel to it follow. Five minutes later we pass the Comtessa pass (mojón 580) and shortly after we reach a meadow-pass where we meet the track again and where the farmhouse of…

📌 (1h50min; 7.2 kms) Mas de la Comtessa (494m). Go down the right path with your eyes fixed on…

📌 (2h15min; 9.0 kms) Le Perthus (288m). We entered Le Perthus via the D71 road, passing under an AP-7 motorway viaduct first, at which point the road we are going to follow begins. Le Perthus is a small town (600 inhabitants) for the incessant traffic it has to handle. The D900 road is the main artery of the town and is where the businesses are located. Follow the road to the left for about 100m until Rue de l’Église, where there are signs to climb up to Fort de Bellegard. Shortly after starting the climb, we reach a parking lot. We can continue up the road, or cross the parking lot in search of a path that serves as an alternative for about 300-400 meters. If we choose the path, continuing on the road, we will go 300 meters further and take a left track that goes horizontally to then descend to the Còrrec de la Freixa. Cross the stream💧 and turn left to reach the nearby...

📌 (2h50min; 11.5 km) Coll de Panissars (334m) where the asphalt ends.

The Col de Panissars was the most favorable passage to cross the Pyrenees during the Roman era. At this place, the Vía Domitia, which crossed southern Gaul, gave way to the Vía Augusta, which crossed Hispania to Cádiz (Gades). In the vicinity we find remains from the Roman era and a Benedictine monastery-hospital from the 11th century, whose stones were used to build the Fort de Bellegard (17th century). In the collet there is an old military cemetery, the 567 trans-border milestone and the Torre de Panissars, an ancient military tower.

Take the path that leads to the Panissars Tower and continues over the ridge to the Puig del Priorat (485m).

📌 (3h25min; 13.4 kms) Coll del Priorat (458m). It is crossed by a path that we will follow towards the West passing by the...

📌 (4h10min; 16.1 kms) Coll del Teixó (669m) and then the Pla del Perer (4h20min), alongside Puig de Calmelles (735m). From here the trail descends smoothly. In 7 minutes we take a junction to the right and 3 minutes later another to the left.

📌 (4h40min; 18.4 km) Mas Nou (675m). Leave Mas Nou on the right and, after passing through a vegetable garden area, take the right fork that descends to the road that leads to Las Illas. In fact, it seems a better alternative to take the left fork and head to Las Illas via the Coll del Figuer.

📌 (5h20min; 21.9 kms) D13 Road (479m). Continue on the asphalt on the left hand side until…

📌 (5h55min; 24.9 kms) Las Illas (558m)