The High Pyrenees Natural Park was created twenty years ago and had a couple of interpretive guides. Now, the number of professionals has increased to twenty and they have organized themselves in the Association of interpretive guides of the Alt Pirineu Natural Park.
The director of the Natural Park, Marc Garriga, explained that it is one of the few natural parks that has an association of guides and has highlighted the volume of activities carried out in this protected space, reaching more than two hundred in the year.
Miquel Àngel Canal, president of the Park Guides Association, has vindicated the role of guides and has asked for more visibility in this sector.
Canals has defended that interpreter guides are a sector that provides jobs to the population of the Lleida Pyrenees, enriches the outing with added value, offers and shares knowledge of natural and cultural values, ensures safe outings and generates respect for mountain life and updating its transformations.
Among the activities offered by the guides are: the deer route, the bear forests, mountain flowers, astronomy, forest internet, the iron forest, Romanesque churches, discovery of bats or butterflies or the route persecuted and saved that follows the path of Jews fleeing Nazism.
The association has presented these activities at the viewpoint of Sant Quirc in Alins, in the Pallars Sobirà, where an astronomical viewpoint has recently opened.
The objective of the park is for each municipality of the Parc Natural de l’Alt Pirineu to have an astronomical point to highlight the quality of the Park’s night sky.
