[AND] Highest mountain pass in the Pyrenees (2,408 m) - Port d'Envalira + Túnel d'Envalira
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Driving the highest mountain pass in the Pyrenees, Port d'Envalira at 2,408 metres over sea level. Includes footage of Túnel d'Envalira, Europe's highest road tunnel (2,000+ meters).
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All I can say is WOW, that was a very awesome video. Made me feel like I was along for the ride. Thank you.
Thanks to you for the comment!
Thanks!! We are going to be driving to Andorra in early September. Now planning on taking this route vs tunnel.
I have been up there a couple times, indeed the sight from the top of Port d'Envalira is really beautiful, but the last part between El Pas and the summit is very dangerous due to its steep grades, tight hairpins and often heavy traffic...
There is also a large gravel path starting up there, that can take you even further up through Coll Blanc (2500m) and then to the summit of Pic Blanc (2650m), but by foot only. It is not hard and does not require equipment, but due to the altitude it is quite exhausting...
Since I come from France the ascent is very long, more than 30 kms, and in fact it's a double ascent as you also climb Col de Puymorens (1915m) along the way.
Fun fact, due to the altitude it's built at, El Pas de la Casa is one of the highest cities in Europe if not the highest, and the coldest one in Andorra (don't even think about wearing shorts here, as even in summer temperatures barely reach 20 degrees during sunny afternoons, and can drop as low as 5-6 degrees by night and early in the morning, not to mention it's very windy xD)
How fast are you actually driving ?? - it seems to me to be way more than the 30 km the signs allow for ??
Hi, if I remember correctly this video was sped up about 2.5x. You can drive 30 on the hairpins and 90 on the straights. I don't remember driving faster than that since I would have cooked the brakes.
@@RoadsofEuropeverreme Thanks for answering :-)
It' sounds like here in the French part of the Pyrenees - even I don't remember the intermissions of 30 km/h :-)
it's just that it looked aweful fast when you was driving.
But I suppose it always looks faster when other people are driving :-)
I can sneak up to 60 km/h when going good, that's all - never 90 :-)
AND it's harder going downwards than upwards, right ??
Nowadays I don't speed videos that much, especially those featuring winding roads. Port d'Envalira has wide straights where you can easily reach 90 km/h but you must watch your speed downhill because slowing down takes longer.
Were you a race car driver? I like the sound of the car. What make is it?
Hi, the video is sped up between 2.5 and 3x and this is why it sounds like this. I was driving an ordinary car.
@@RoadsofEuropeverreme Thanks for replying!
Hello first can i say thanks for all your video iam from Ireland we plan to come to bilbao Spain by ferry boat in August in car iam going to Empuriabrava spain at the sea i tried to do a route planner so right across i don't think i want to go the Barcelona way trying to find quietest way maybe 1 hour less driving paying tolls along the way any help would be helpful thank you.
You can drive via France but there's even more traffic. Take C-25 via Manresa and Vic.
Great video! You have an awesome sounding exhaust! What are you driving???
I'm driving a "normal" car (Opel Astra 1.6). Sound is a bit weird because the video is sped up, and in this case there's a low-pass filter because we were talking inside the car and I didn't want it to be heard :)
Very interesting route! I take it in my mind at a future trip.
Thanks! Andorra is indeed worth a roadtrip, but there are much pretter roads in the Pyrenees!
When did You drive (date) over this pass?
Jochen
Hi, this video was recorded in summer 2014.
Thanks for feedback
You can drive at 2802m of altitude in the Alps. Go to Cime de la Bonnette-Restefond. The beginning of the climb is in Jausiers (France).
We are speaking about the highest pass in the PYRENEES, which obviously is a different mountain range.
Thanks for the beautiful video. I hope you can make one of the Bielsa-Aragnouet Tunnel!
Thanks for the comment! I don't think I'll drive there in the remainder of 2017, but who knows? It's something I'd love to see so I'll go there sooner or later.
Plenty of higher passes in French Alps. Less touristy and commercial. Beautiful nature. You can do more then one in a day if you want . Also coll Angel between France and Italy. Stelvio in Italy is also beautiful. Very touristy but unique.
Nagyon jó videó Gratulálok! 🚗
Siempre me habian dicho que era un puerto jodido y tal... Lo he hecho varias veces y la verdad, no tiene nada... Son todas las curvas iguales y se puede ir bastante rapido. Antes de hacerlo me esperaba algo como el rat penat de port ginesta a olivella, y que va... De hecho las cuestas no es que sean nada del otro mundo. Es mas, diria que al salir de Encamp hay mas pendiente
Hay muchas horquillas pero la carretera es muy ancha. El único problema es que debido a la altitud es frecuente encontrar nieve.
system d'evacuation et ..securité du tunnel " of love
I'm keen to go up there and drive it myself now.
You won't regret it. Thanks for the comment!
La vez que pasé por ahí me hizo gracia que la subida de ese puerto está limitada a 90 km/h, cuando en absolutamente todo el país el límite es 60 km/h.
Efectivamente en la inmensa mayoría de carreteras andorranas el límite de velocidad es como mucho 60 km/h, excepto en el túnel d'Envalira (70) y en el túnel de las Dos Valires (80), además del mencionado puerto.
Ohh Its phenomenal.
You have beautiful roads in Spain must have been very expensive to build it.
Hi, this road is in Andorra not Spain.
@@RoadsofEuropeverreme it looks like the place in Spain I was but that was at the end of Pyrenees. Lots of Tunnels through the Rocky hills
@@1spago Andorra is an independent country xdd
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listé au village : déjà visité landorre avec salim. fiscal " close ! your thahanouts!
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j'ai chier contre la crs dans l'andorre en 2008
fiscal non bouchakour!