Off-road spectacle near Barcelona

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Go with your friends on tough 4×4 tracks

Would you and your friends like to do something different? Something exciting? Then join us for some tough off-road driving in a stunningly beautiful setting. You will learn to drive a 4×4 car in challenging circumstances, or improve your skills if you already have 4×4 driving experience. Combined with terrific food, the great company of your friends and a fantastic instructor, this makes for a perfect, adrenaline charged experience.

Join us on this two and a half day 4×4 event near Barcelona: you’ll be using our cars, so just fly there, we’ll pick you up and take care of everything.

A trial for real

This is a two and a half day fun event for those who like to feel the rush of adrenaline while sitting behind the wheel of a 4×4 car. Carles Celma, our experienced and professional driving instructor and tour guide, takes you to our closed-off site for half a day of training on Friday afternoon. He will teach you the ropes of how to control a 4×4 car in technical driving conditions. You will feel safe and confident when we go out into the mountains.

You will be driving in the Penedès mountain area along tracks that offer fantastic views, are sometimes easy and sometimes really difficult and technical, like a trial for real. You will be able to exercise all the skills you learned in the morning of the first day.

Perfect outing for a group of friends

The minimum number of participants is four (two cars), the maximum 10 (five cars), making it a perfect outing for a group of friends who like to do something different and exciting. Working together to conquer obstacles, the feeling that you have overcome a challenge, combined with picknick lunches, great food and a drink afterwards combine to create an atmosphere of camaraderie that will stay with you for a long time.

Safety first

4×4 driving needs to be safe. That’s why we train you first before we go out into the wild. All the time Carles will be there to guarantee a safe adventure for everyone.

Vehicles

The vehicles we provide are Nissan Patrols modified to perfection. The cars have been raised and are equipped with a very sort short range low gear box to make maximum use of the torque of the engine. These are very reliable cars, perfectly suitable for the kind of tracks we drive on these tours.

Gastronomy

Catalonia is a gastronomical heaven. Its climate and the care people put in preparing the food provide an intense taste to fish, meat, vegetables and fruits. In recent years traditional cooking has been infused with innovative combinations of flavours and sophisticated recipes, further improving the gastronomic experience.

You will enjoy these tastes with a barbecue and excellent  cooking in the restaurants we visit.

Programme

The trip follows an intensive off-road programme, taking place in the area between Sitges village, the Montserrat mountains and Penedès region.

First day

We will welcome you at Barcelona airport in the morning and drive to our off-road training site. Today is intended to get yourself familiarised with the cars and feel confident driving them.

Safety and technical briefing.

Lunch.

Driving training at our site.

If there is time, we will do some off-road driving through the hills so that you can apply what you’ve learned.

Dinner.

Your hotel is in an attractive village, where you can have a stroll and relax with a drink after the day’s events.

Second day

We pick you up at your hotel at 9:00 hrs. in the morning

Drive through the mountains on tarmac and tracks.

Lunch.

Off road tour: including a river crossing, and some technical tracks. We drive through beautiful scenery across the vineyards of Penedês valley.

Return to hotel.

Third day

Pick you up at the hotel.

Off-road tour with very technical passages in the mountains around Penedès valley, offering amazing views of the valley, sea, Montserrat and the Pyrenees.

If you wish you can alternatively opt for a tour on quad bikes at no additional cost.

Lunch.

Transfer to the airport.

Included in trip fee

  • All transfers.
  • Training at our off-road site.
  • Two nights hotel
  • All meals
  • Two days use of a modified Nissan Patrol (possible to swap the 4×4 car on the second day and do a half-day journey on a quad bike at no extra cost).
  • Maximum of two persons per vehicle
  • Minimum group size: four people (two cars). Maximum: 10 people (five cars).
  • All vehicle operating costs, including fuel.
  • Vehicle insurance.

If you wish we can include a wine and cava cellar visit and tasting at €15 per person.

Price: €780 per person on the basis of two people per car.

Not included

  • Optional wine tasting.
  • Your flights.
  • Personal travel insurance.
  • Any personal expenses.

Down payment and deposit

When you book this trip, we ask you for a down payment of 15% of the total booking sum. We ask for a deposit of €400 in cash to be paid locally as a security for the vehicles, to be returned at the end of the event provided the car has not sustained any uninsured damage.

Booking information

  • You form your own group.
  • This event can take place at any time of the year, except in August, when it is far too warm.
  • Simply contact us via info@4x4discoverytravel.com. Together we settle on the dates, cater for any special wishes you may have and arrange the details of your trip.

This offer is covered by the STO Garant guarantee. You can find the conditions for this guarantee scheme on STO Garant’s website (www.sto-garant.nl/en/downloads).

The Penedès region

Penedès is located in the south of Catalonia, between the pre-coastal mountain range (Serralada Pre-litoral) and the Mediterranean. It is a wine-producing region, framed by the coastal hills of the Serra del Garraf and the higher inland mountains which skirt the Catalan Central Depression. Long considered one of the country’s best wine-producing regions after the Rioja area, it is also one of the most ancient viticultural areas in Europe. Perhaps best known for its Cava production, a sparkling wine which has had its own Denominació d’Origen since 1991. White grape varieties predominate, although the region also produces some highly regarded, oak-aged reds.

The climate is mild and sunny.

Off-road spectacle near Barcelona

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Go with your friends on tough 4×4 tracks

Would you and your friends like to do something different? Something exciting? Then join us for some tough off-road driving in a stunningly beautiful setting. You will learn to drive a 4×4 car in challenging circumstances, or improve your skills if you already have 4×4 driving experience. Combined with terrific food, the great company of your friends and a fantastic instructor, this makes for a perfect, adrenaline charged experience.

Join us on this two and a half day 4×4 event near Barcelona: you’ll be using our cars, so just fly there, we’ll pick you up and take care of everything.

A trial for real

This is a two and a half day fun event for those who like to feel the rush of adrenaline while sitting behind the wheel of a 4×4 car. Carles Celma, our experienced and professional driving instructor and tour guide, takes you to our closed-off site for half a day of training on Friday afternoon. He will teach you the ropes of how to control a 4×4 car in technical driving conditions. You will feel safe and confident when we go out into the mountains.

You will be driving in the Penedès mountain area along tracks that offer fantastic views, are sometimes easy and sometimes really difficult and technical, like a trial for real. You will be able to exercise all the skills you learned in the morning of the first day.

Perfect outing for a group of friends

The minimum number of participants is four (two cars), the maximum 10 (five cars), making it a perfect outing for a group of friends who like to do something different and exciting. Working together to conquer obstacles, the feeling that you have overcome a challenge, combined with picknick lunches, great food and a drink afterwards combine to create an atmosphere of camaraderie that will stay with you for a long time.

Safety first

4×4 driving needs to be safe. That’s why we train you first before we go out into the wild. All the time Carles will be there to guarantee a safe adventure for everyone.

Vehicles

The vehicles we provide are Nissan Patrols modified to perfection. The cars have been raised and are equipped with a very sort short range low gear box to make maximum use of the torque of the engine. These are very reliable cars, perfectly suitable for the kind of tracks we drive on these tours.

Gastronomy

Catalonia is a gastronomical heaven. Its climate and the care people put in preparing the food provide an intense taste to fish, meat, vegetables and fruits. In recent years traditional cooking has been infused with innovative combinations of flavours and sophisticated recipes, further improving the gastronomic experience.

You will enjoy these tastes with a barbecue and excellent  cooking in the restaurants we visit.

Programme

The trip follows an intensive off-road programme, taking place in the area between Sitges village, the Montserrat mountains and Penedès region.

First day

We will welcome you at Barcelona airport in the morning and drive to our off-road training site. Today is intended to get yourself familiarised with the cars and feel confident driving them.

Safety and technical briefing.

Lunch.

Driving training at our site.

If there is time, we will do some off-road driving through the hills so that you can apply what you’ve learned.

Dinner.

Your hotel is in an attractive village, where you can have a stroll and relax with a drink after the day’s events.

Second day

We pick you up at your hotel at 9:00 hrs. in the morning

Drive through the mountains on tarmac and tracks.

Lunch.

Off road tour: including a river crossing, and some technical tracks. We drive through beautiful scenery across the vineyards of Penedês valley.

Return to hotel.

Third day

Pick you up at the hotel.

Off-road tour with very technical passages in the mountains around Penedès valley, offering amazing views of the valley, sea, Montserrat and the Pyrenees.

If you wish you can alternatively opt for a tour on quad bikes at no additional cost.

Lunch.

Transfer to the airport.

Included in trip fee

  • All transfers.
  • Training at our off-road site.
  • Two nights hotel
  • All meals
  • Two days use of a modified Nissan Patrol (possible to swap the 4×4 car on the second day and do a half-day journey on a quad bike at no extra cost).
  • Maximum of two persons per vehicle
  • Minimum group size: four people (two cars). Maximum: 10 people (five cars).
  • All vehicle operating costs, including fuel.
  • Vehicle insurance.

If you wish we can include a wine and cava cellar visit and tasting at €15 per person.

Price: €780 per person on the basis of two people per car.

Not included

  • Optional wine tasting.
  • Your flights.
  • Personal travel insurance.
  • Any personal expenses.

Down payment and deposit

When you book this trip, we ask you for a down payment of 15% of the total booking sum. We ask for a deposit of €400 in cash to be paid locally as a security for the vehicles, to be returned at the end of the event provided the car has not sustained any uninsured damage.

Booking information

  • You form your own group.
  • This event can take place at any time of the year, except in August, when it is far too warm.
  • Simply contact us via info@4x4discoverytravel.com. Together we settle on the dates, cater for any special wishes you may have and arrange the details of your trip.

This offer is covered by the STO Garant guarantee. You can find the conditions for this guarantee scheme on STO Garant’s website (www.sto-garant.nl/en/downloads).

The Penedès region

Penedès is located in the south of Catalonia, between the pre-coastal mountain range (Serralada Pre-litoral) and the Mediterranean. It is a wine-producing region, framed by the coastal hills of the Serra del Garraf and the higher inland mountains which skirt the Catalan Central Depression. Long considered one of the country’s best wine-producing regions after the Rioja area, it is also one of the most ancient viticultural areas in Europe. Perhaps best known for its Cava production, a sparkling wine which has had its own Denominació d’Origen since 1991. White grape varieties predominate, although the region also produces some highly regarded, oak-aged reds.

The climate is mild and sunny.

Individual trip Andorra to Bossost

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Discover the Spanish Pyrenees by yourself

Specially for individual travellers we have developed this version of our trip through the Pyrenees. It is longer than the group tour, you get our e-roadbook as your virtual tour guide and we book the hotels for you. The only thing you have to do is download the e-roadbook and go.

Mountain tracks are the norm for this tour. The route takes you to places you’d normally never get to; places you didn’t realise even existed in Europe. The variation in the landscapes you travel through is striking. No day is the same. You drive high up a mountain until over 2400 meters where it is crisply cold, barren and rocky. Depending on the time of year, you may negotiate some snow and then descend into a lush green valley, with meadows, cows, sheep and have lunch in the shade because in the sun it is too warm.

Beautiful scenery

Your tour starts in Andorra. You drive up the Cabus Pass on tarmac and down the famous Smuggler’s Route into Spain on a mud track. The transition of one surface to the other symbolises the transition from rich Andorra to a remote part of Spain. The mountains are breathtaking, the views stunning and different every day.

If you go in September or early October, autumn begins to fall with its beautiful colours or, in case there is some snowfall, you will be confronted with a landscape in almost black and white.

Remote Spain

Few people live here. In the village of Tirvia there is one bar, often closed.  You pass by the Chapel of Sta. Magdalena, a perfect spot for lunch. You drive on over rocky mountain tracks traversing areas where little grows. Then, suddenly, you arrive in green, cultivated valleys with meadows, cows and sheep. Several time you pass the 2,400 meter mark. Whatever the time of year, you enjoy the fresh mountain are and the silence of nature.

We have included a few extras in the roadbook for this individual trip, such as a detour past the chapel of Montgarri. An easy drive along a stream taking you to the magnificently situated chapel.

Practical information

The trip has been designed so that you can do it in seven days at a relaxed pace, assuming you drive every day. The first leg is from Andorra to Alins. The second takes you to Rialp, from where we have two round trips. From Rialp you go to Espot, then to Vielha and on the seventh day to Bossost.

No special preparation of you vehicle is necessary. Just make sure it’s in good overall condition and that you have all-terrain tyres with plenty of tread left.

The journey is approximately 500 km long, of which about 75% is on tracks. These are not difficult or technically challenging, though they are interesting enough as a driving experience. A 4×4 with good ground clearance makes life easier, as does a low range gear box. These are not strictly necessary: we have had clients in a Jeep Renegade Trailhawk and a Landrover Freelander 2 who completed the tour with careful driving without problems. Great fun guaranteed.

Here is an overview of the route:

When to go

You can do this trip at any time between late May/early July and early October. At the end of May there will still be snow in the mountains which, if winter has been severe, could block your path. In October the first snow may fall, which makes for beautiful scenery.

Included

The price for this offer is from €1050 for two people, which includes:

  • Eight overnight stays for two people in comfortable hotels, including breakfast
  • E-roadbook containing a complete seven-day tour description and point-to-point navigation
  • Points of interest with pictures
  • Detailed map in your roadbook
  • Restaurants and hotels on the map
  • Detours and alternative routes
  • Suggestions for experiments: the roadbook invites you to try something out.

Not included

  • Any other meals
  • Fuel
  • Insurance

More information or booking

If you want to know more about this journey, you can always contact us. You can start booking this journey by sending an email to info@4x4discoverytravel.com with your wishes and your telephone number. We will then contact you to make sure everyting will be okay so that we can finish your booking.

The hotel bookings of this offer are covered by the STO Garant guarantee. You can find the conditions for this guarantee scheme on STO Garant’s website (www.sto-garant.nl/en/downloads). We will invoice the roadbook separately.