Coming Over Puerta de Sahun at dusk
We visited our neighbours in Benasque yesterday, driving over the Puerta de Sahun mounatin pass. From San Juan it takes one and a bit hours, and it is a breathtaking trip weather permitting; in the winter the snowfall closes the pass until late spring.Our neighbours recounted the many trips made by them on foot to San Mames, a hermitage in the mountainside of San Juan, for the summer fiesta. It took 6 hours walking to arrive there, and a much told story is of the dancing on the rock beside the hermitage. Much to our delight at the Hopsital de Benasque, we were treated to a viewing of some early 20th century photographs of the area, one of which featured San Mames complete with 6 couples dressed in their sunday best dancing away impervious to the substantial drop at edge of rock, now fenced in.
We returned to San Juan by car crossing the 2005 m high pass at dusk. The descent proved quite spectacular; sunset, a twinkling Gistain, hares, cattle and lots of potholes.
Posted by Jayne at 10:01 · 