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Taking the plane to Lourdes. Cheapest option to get to St.Jean Pied de Port and start the Camino.
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Lourdes will fix your sins
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Catholic Merchandise
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The "hugest cross" contest
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Mass-mess: religion as a design, an inexpensive product for the masses.
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Don't be fooled! although it looks bizantine, the The Basilica of the Rosary was built between 1883 and 1889 to replace the original chapel on the site of the apparations of the Virgin Mary.
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The plaza view from the top of the Basilica.
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Plaza of the Basilica. Is the cross gold ? You can't tell, as the photo is in B/W
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People getting their daily dose of holy-water with huge tanks (up to 15lt) built at the holy-shopping malls. A cup of holy water a day… you know !
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Getting near the place where the Madonna di Lourdes teleported herself (or maybe it was an hologram ? time will tell)
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People caress the rocks sourrounding the Madonna di Lourdes appareance in a twisted sexy way. Folks in the queue gets nervous as everyone wanna spend some quality time within the holy place.
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Every day at 9 PM thousands of people do their torchlight night procession. It's like being at a pink floyd concert when they start to play "shine of you crazy diamonds", but the music is crap.
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Finally after Lourdes, back to reality in Bayonne, a lively city on the France border with Spain.
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St.Jean Pied de Port train station. The fun begins
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The camino just starts here, climbing the Pyrenees.
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A view of the Pyrenees at dawn.
