# Sunday in the Bardenas Reales: a guided 4x4 through the Bardena Blanca and vegetables in Tudela

You tour the Bardena Blanca by 4x4 with a guide, stop at Castildetierra and the Cortinas ravine, and eat Ribera vegetables in Tudela. An hour from Pamplona and Logroño.

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/navarre/bardenas-reales/itineraries/4x4-through-the-bardena-blanca · Revisado: 2026-11-12

## El día
- 08:30 · Salida: 1 h by car (via the AP-15 to Arguedas; from Zaragoza, via the AP-68 and Tudela)
- 09:45 · Guided 4x4 tour of the Bardena Blanca (Enjoy Bardenas, private 4x4 with an official guide, 3 h, from €160 per car for 4; with booking) · Enjoy Bardenas, From €160 per vehicle, up to 4 people (€10 per extra person, up to 6)
  - 10 min by car
- 12:45 · Walk along the Cortinas ravine (if the guide does not include it: 1 km on the flat beside Castildetierra)
  - 30 min by car, 20 km
- 14:00 · Restaurante 33 (Restaurante 33 · vegetables from the Ribera · €€€ · Sunday 13:15 to 16:15, booking) · Restaurante 33, €€€
  - Carry on on foot
- 16:30 · Tudela, the cathedral and the old town (Plaza de los Fueros, the Jewish quarter and the cathedral from outside: the museum closes on Sunday)
- 18:00 · Vuelta (in Pamplona around 19:15)

The Bardenas Reales are a desert of clay, gypsum and sandstone in southern Navarre: hills, dry ravines and plateaux cut like a knife. The part that appears in all the photos is the Bardena Blanca, with Castildetierra, the funnel-shaped hill that has become its symbol. This Sunday you tour it by 4x4 with a guide who knows the tracks and what they mean, and then you eat in Tudela, the capital of the Ribera, the land of vegetables.

## The day, hour by hour

8:30 · Set off. From Pamplona, take the AP-15 towards Tudela and the Arguedas exit: a little over an hour. From Zaragoza, on the AP-68 or the A-68 and Tudela. From Logroño, on the AP-68 and Tudela. Meet the company wherever they tell you when you book; Enjoy Bardenas picks up within 25 km.

9:45 · The Bardena Blanca by 4x4. A private three-hour route with an official guide in a seven-seat air-conditioned off-road vehicle: Castildetierra, the Pisquerra and El Rallón, with stops to walk and take photos. It costs from €160 per vehicle for up to four people, €10 more per person up to six, with a drink and insurance. Book on their website.

12:45 · Cortinas ravine. If the route does not include it, it is a flat walk of a little over a kilometre along a ravine beside Castildetierra: half an hour.

14:00 · Lunch at Restaurante 33. In Tudela, about twenty minutes away. It is a restaurant devoted to Ribera vegetables: pochas with quail, borage, Tudela tomato, cristal peppers and shoulder of suckling lamb. It serves lunch every day from 13:15 to 16:15, Sunday included. Book.

16:30 · Tudela. Plaza de los Fueros, with its bandstand, the Jewish quarter and the cathedral of Santa María from outside, with the Puerta del Juicio. The Museo de Tudela, through which you enter the cathedral, is closed on Sundays: if you want to see it inside, do the plan on a Saturday.

18:00 · Head home. In Pamplona around a quarter past seven; in Zaragoza, a little earlier.

## On your own, without a guide

If you prefer to go on your own, the track of about 25 km around the Bardena Blanca can be driven in an ordinary car, driven slowly, in about two hours with stops. It starts at the Los Aguilares information centre, about 7 km from Arguedas, open every day from 9:00 to 14:00 and from 15:00 to 17:00 at this time of year. The park opens at 8:00 and closes an hour before nightfall. The maximum speed is 40 km/h, you may not leave the track or stop outside the lay-bys, and you may not enter the central firing range. Inside there is no water, bars or petrol stations.

## With children, teenagers and a dog

With small children, the 4x4 keeps them entertained, and the Cortinas ravine is short. With teenagers, Bardenas Buggies Tour lets you drive a four-seat buggy behind the guide, from €230 per buggy. The dog can go on the tracks, on a lead of three metres at most; it may not enter the information centre.

## Cómo llegar

### By car
By the AP-15 from Pamplona, a little over an hour to Arguedas. From Zaragoza and Logroño, by the AP-68 and Tudela, about an hour and a quarter.

### Without a car
There is no public transport to the park. Tudela has trains and buses, but to enter the Bardenas you need a car or a tour that picks you up.

## Consejos

### Check the park notices before setting off
The Comunidad de Bardenas website publishes closures for rain, roadworks or wildlife.

### Bring water and a cap
There is no shade or fountains, even in winter at midday.

### Fill the tank
There are no petrol stations inside.

## Cuándo no ir

A Sunday in July or August at midday: the heat is extreme and the light, flat.

## Preguntas frecuentes

### Do I have to pay to enter the Bardenas?
No. The park's website does not publish any fee for driving the authorised tracks. Guided tours are paid.

### Can I enter in an ordinary car?
Yes, on the Bardena Blanca track, slowly and when it is not raining. Very low cars are not recommended.

### How much does the 4x4 with a guide cost?
From €160 per vehicle for up to four people on Enjoy Bardenas' three-hour route.

### Is Restaurante 33 open on Sunday?
Yes, at midday, from 13:15 to 16:15.

### Can you see Tudela cathedral on Sunday?
Not inside: the Museo de Tudela, which gives access, is closed on Sundays.