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Cares Route transport plan 2024

Cares Route transport plan 2024

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Updated on 3 June 2024
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Cares Route transport plan 2024
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    This year 2024, in order to avoid traffic jams and offer an alternative to the many people who visit the Picos de Europa National Park, there is a special transportation plan between Arenas and Sotres, Cabrales, with stops at various points .



    Poncebos is the town where many people come together in the summer who decide to start the Cares Route on the Asturian side or go up to Bulnes, either by funicular or walking along the Texu Canal. The agglomeration is such that the Asturias Transport Consortium has once again developed the plan to go up by bus from Arenas de Cabrales.

    How to do the Ruta del Cares? How to get to Sotres?

    Have been enabled three parking areas in Arenas de Cabrales, Bus they will go from Arenas to Poncebos, from this place we can:

    1/XNUMX/XNUMX Start the Cares route.
    2/XNUMX/XNUMX Take the funicular towards Bulnes.
    3/XNUMX/XNUMX Travel by minibus to the towns of Tielve or Sotres.

    RATES
    The price of round-trip tickets remains at three euros for all routes leaving or ending in Poncebos and five for complete routes between Arenas and Tielve or Sotres and vice versa. Tickets can be purchased in advance on the transport company's official website and the price of a single ticket will be 1,55 euros.

    Cares Route transport plan 2024

    Tickets can be purchased in advance through the ALSA website or digital platforms, also on board the buses themselves.

    WHEN

    Every day of summer 2024, uninterruptedly, June, July, August and September, and will last until October 13 uninterrupted, with practically hourly frequencies From 08.00 to 20.30 hours, which could be adapted if necessary.

    The service will have nine one-way frequencies from Arenas, between 08:00 and 19:00, and many others back from Sotres between 09:00 and 20:00. The price of round-trip tickets remains at three euros for all journeys with departure or destination in Poncebos and five euros for complete journeys between Arenas and Tielve or Sotres and vice versa.

    SANDS SERVICE FROM CABRALES TO PONCEBOS

    · Departures from Arenas de Cabrales: 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 17:00, 18:00, and 19:00.
    · Poncebos departures: 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 17:30, 18:30, 19:30 and 20:30 p.m.

    PONCEBOS SERVICE TO TIELVE AND SOTRES

    · Poncebos departures: 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 17:30, 18:30 and 19:30 p.m.
    · Sotres departures: 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 17:00, 18:00, 19:00 and 20:00 p.m.

    The use of parking lots in Pandébano, Sotres and Poncebos will be restricted to give priority to residents.

    Traffic control in Pandébano

    In addition, the Principality also regulates the environment of the Collada de Pandébano, one of the reference points for mountaineers who visit the Picos de Europa, in which The prohibition on parking outside specially designated areas is maintained..

    The Cares route

    The Cares route

    Following the course of the River Cares in its high sections involves entering a calcareous throat ...


    Text: © Ramón Molleda for asturias.com Copyright Ramon Molleda



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