The Spain Wandering - Day 8: Lagos de Covadonga Fail turns out good.

Through some miscommunication between my loving wife Martha and I; we went to the Lagos de Covadonga parking areas to attempt to get a seat on the shuttle bus to the actual lakes.

Turns out, Martha thought the picture I had sent her about a mountain was at the lake location, it was not. And I had not bothered to verify things with her beforehand. 

Just as well since neither of us was really interested in seeing those lakes and everybody seem to be so keen on.  Instead Martha soon realized one of the churches that was on her bucket list of things to see was actually next to the parking lot. I saw a cool looking Cathedral on the top of a hill that we ended up checking out instead along with a small museum.

It was actually a bit confusing in terms of transportation relating to getting into the lakes area. There were taxis, but you have to assemble a group of eight people. They were the buses of course but apparently they were all sold out because there's a lot of people doing pilgrimages and so on after Easter. 

So, no lakes, about a couple of crowded but cool churches that did not permit inside photography (Sunday Mass). The museum was mostly about the king that won the first battle against the Moors in the war to regain Spain from them. (I think)

More on Covadonga's history and significance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covadonga

Santa Cueva de Covadonga

Basilica de Santa Maria La Real

King Pelayo of Asturia

We left the area and retraced our route back to the town of Las Arenas de Calabres where Martha found us a room for the next two nights.

Nearby, by the somewhat amusingly named town of Poo de Cabrales, is the Mirador (viewpoint) Pozu La Oracion.  It provides a very nice view of one of the more famous peaks in Spain: Naranjo de Bulnes or Piccu Urriellu:

We got to the viewpoint just in time after a nice dinner at the Urgallo Restaurant near the hotel.

We'll be trying to get closer to the Naranjo de Bulnes tomorrow.