Village house, Tama.  Photo credit: Wild Photography Holidays

Fancy a wild photography holiday in Spain?  Then check out the Mountains, Forests And Villages of the Picos de Europa with Wild Photography Holidays.

The travel company specializes in small-group photography holidays in wild and inaccessible places.  In September, this Spanish photography holiday will take guests to Northern Spain, trekking through the mountains, forests and villages of the Picos de Europa.

Fuente De Central massif.  Photo credit: Wild Photography Holidays

Says Geraldine Westrupp, tour leader:

“This a truly magical photographic destination strongly reminiscent of Tolkien’s ‘hobbit land’, a really astonishing place and becoming popular for those who want to absorb the energy and peace of one of the last austere wilderness landscapes in Europe and capture some really exciting and different images.”

This wild, mountain landscape is known for its soaring peaks, deep valley gorges, ancient glaciers and river waters. Guests will travel mostly on foot to explore remote locations so they should like mountain walking and staying in local accommodation every night.

Tour leader Geraldine Westrupp, an experienced mountain guide, will be accompanied by photographer Martin Samtleben, who has worked in the Picos.

Garganta del Cares. Photo credit: Wild Photography Holidays

Other photography holiday highlights will include:

• Visiting the abandoned villages of the Beyos.
• Traversing the Garganta del Cares with its deep ravines, exotic plant life, cliffs and always changing light.
• Journeying to Sotres, the highest village in the Picos de Europa, where there are old shepherd’s houses.
• Traveling by 4×4 vehicle along the old mountain road that divides the eastern and central massifs.
• Walking into the Karstic Picos landscape and photographing El Naranjo.
• Descending by cable car into the valley.

For more info, visit the Wild Photography Holidays site.

Images courtesy of Wild Photography Holidays.