Camping Artaza

This remote rural locale makes hikes around the surrounding countryside a cinch. Two kilometres from base in Basaula Nature Reserve there’s a five-kilometre hiking trail, along which you can keep your peepers peeled for griffon, Egyptian vultures, kites and eagles; several smashing turquoise waterfall pools lie around here for dips and paddles among nature too. More hiking can be had around the Bardenas Reales, which comprises 42,000 hectares of semi-desert natural region inhabited by vultures and other wild critters, as well as in Urbasa y Andía Natural Park, where you can also try out climbing and traverse heaps of cycling routes. For day trips among historic hotspots, the 14th-century Royal Palace of Olite – a fortress complex with towers, battlements, courtyards and gardens – and Pamplona – famed for its Running of the Bulls festival (aka the Feast of San Fermín) in July – are both around an hour’s drive away.