📌 (0h0min; 0kms) Bera (35m). Once on the NA-8304 road that crosses Bera and links Pamplona with Irún, take the junction of the NA-1310 road, signposted Francia-Ibardín and Francia-Lizuniaga. After about 500m you will come to a small roundabout next to a car park where there are GR11 signs, turn right. Next to the Ikastola Labeaga school, there is a track that climbs uphill in a southerly direction between farmhouses (Suspel ttiki neighbourhood). Approximately one kilometre further on there is a source 💧. Continue along a track on the right until you come out onto another concrete track -at the height of the highest farmhouses- which you follow upwards (S). Further on, the track forks (left) and shortly after, it gives way to a very steep grassy path along which we reach the top of the...

📌 (0h55min; 2.9kms) Santa Barbara (396m). At the summit there is a bunker and a monument in memory of three mountaineers who died on the north face of the Taillon. We continue along the summit ridge (E) until we come out onto a path that we follow for about 250m until we reach the Meaka pass (335m), where we leave it to continue along another path - straight ahead - that ascends between pines to Sorokogaña (360m). A descent between meadows where we pass by the Larratenea farmhouse takes us to the Idoia pass (270m), which is crossed by a track just as it forks. We continue straight on (E) along the track (60m), and then to the left - upwards - for about 300m, until we leave it at a crossroads that we take to the right. Continue for another 250m and turn left onto a path that in another 200m takes you back to the track. Continue for another 400m, leaving a pond on the right until you reach a junction on the right. From now on, follow the main track (Usateguieta path) until the...

📌 (1h40min; 8.2kms) Liarrieta/Lizaieta pass (440m). Crossing the road that connects Etxalar with Sara, we find a bar-shop (basic products) and what must have been the border post.

The port of Lizarrieta, due to its location and orography, is a strategic place for the transit of migratory birds between Europe and Africa (the Atlantic route) and one of the places with the highest concentration of birds of prey and other gliding birds. Because of this ideal position for observation and study - together with the sites further east at Lindus and Organbideska - the Lindus Project.

But if this place is known for anything, it is undoubtedly for hunting wood pigeons with nets, a tradition hundreds of years old that has nothing to do with the shotgun hunting posts that can be found all along the border, for which large sums of money are paid.

We cross the road and continue along the track to the Xorilepo pass (472m) where we come across the variant GR11.3 coming from Lesaka. We leave the track and continue our walk (SE) along a path that descends to "Palomeras Usotegui", a restaurant that we find closed today. We continue along the path (E), leave some huts, pass the Lakain pass (429m) and continue halfway down the slope until we join a wide path (1km from the Lakain pass) under the Navarlatsa pass (mugarri 50), where in 2014, some markings had disappeared due to the felling of trees. Descend along the wide path and take care to take a path that descends to the right after 100m. Cross the Argarate stream and you will reach the Maritonea farmhouse (several farmhouses with a large livestock shed), where there are a couple of sourcesWe can get some water here. Continue along the track, take a crossroads on the right after 600m and 150m, leave the track (left) at Orainbetasora (source💧 and picnic area). The GR ascends (S) through comfortable terrain to the Elordi pass (560m) - where it coincides with a couple of archaeological trails that visit the megaliths of Maiko and Zentiñela - and descends turning to the left (E) to reach the Iraza pass (535m), where it joins a track that continues to the...

📌 (4h20min; 16.2kms) Ursumiats/Urtsumiatza pass (538m)It is crossed by an old road that goes up from Etxalar. Information panels indicate the archaeological trail that we saw earlier. The GR11 ascends along a track (S) that just before reaching the Gaineko Saroia pass (607m) forks off (left). We then descend to the hill of Also (543m) where several paths converge, cross the hill and descend along the track (E) for about 250m, until we reach a crossroads on the right.

📌 (5h05min; 19,3 kms) Col of Esquisaroi (525m). From here the path gets harder. Cross the road and go up the "Eskisaroi path", after 1.6kms, take a crossroads on the right that runs along the west side of Mount Atxuela and after 800 metres you will come to another path along which you continue along the edge of Arburu (827m). Along this stretch from the Esquisaroi pass we can see several bunkers built after the Second World War.

📌 (5h50min; 22,3 kms) Col of Atxuela (785m). There are several paths that lead to this point. Follow the main path (S) to the Iñaberri pass (795m), between Larrondo (852m) and Urruspil (819m), 25 minutes from the Atxuela pass. From here the path descends and there is a spring at the Maistruzarra farmhouse.

📌 (7h00min; 25,9 kms) Bagordi (585m). It is a wide esplanade with a picnic area and a fountain. A road leads up to this point from Elbete, and the GR11 descends between shortcuts, coinciding with it on a couple of occasions.

📌 (7h55min; 29,6 kms) Elizondo (190m).