GR11 - Day 8 - to Zuriza

A beautiful day. It was supposed to be a day of rest with us taking the easy variant of the route to Zuriza, about 12 km - 3 hrs. We followed the plastic banderolas saying Gobierno de Navarra. There were really no other GR11 indicators so we thought that was it. We had no problem getting to the waterfall nor to the student camping where we should have followed the river. The banderolas went up the hill on the other side of the road, so we thought that it was the same as the last 3 days where the route was changed somewhat. What a mistake! We went up and down collado after collado, seemingly getting further from our destination. Instead of having a short 3-hr day, we had a 6-hr day with little water at the end because we didn't know it would be so long. That being said, the route was really nice with nice views of the high peaks which we would not have seen otherewise. As we were arriving, we saw Manolo also arriving. He also got lost. Our first destination was the bar for a huge beer. Oh, how that was good. Then food on top of that and were were back in a good humour.