You leave Navarrenx through the gate in the old fortress walls. Before long, the town is just a dot behind you and the landscape turns rural. Fields, farms, low hills. It’s a day of about 18 kilometres across rolling Béarnais countryside.
The hills are short and nowhere really steep. You climb and descend gently, hardly noticing it. After a good 5 hours of walking, you arrive in Aroue, a small village without any bustle. It’s a day to simply walk and keep your legs loose for what’s coming, because the Pyrenees are now close by. Take it at your own pace, the mountains will come to you.