Bardenas Reales, a semi-dessert area in Huesca Region is one of the most underrated places in Spain. 2 hours drive east from Burgos or 1,5 hour from Zaragosa it offers some of the most impressive dessert landscapes in Europe. It may look familiar to You as it hosted many well known cinema productions. Following my Movie Trail I got here by Irish-Micro-Camper (my Old-Trustee-Mazda) from Sad Hill Cemetery (The Good The Bad and The Ugly location). James Bond - The World Is Not Enough, Game of Thrones and many other movies were shot in this area as well. 

It offers great hikes and it is never more 2 hours away from Your car. There are only surface roads here which is great, as You can tell in advance that a car is coming by a huge dust cloud is creates. Like in old, good western movies. Driving here can be tricky though, especially when You drive a regular city car as I did. Better stick to the main road and walk additional 10 minutes to Your final destinations. Adjacent surface roads are not well suited for city vehicles. Main ground roads and fine but drive slowly as the gravel hits the bottom of You car.

Cabaña de Piskerra, I parked my car at the footsteps for the hill. I followed AllTrails.com logs for this area, Piskerra-loop was probably the most impressive I did (https://www.alltrails.com/parks/spain/navarre/parque-natural-de-las-barcenas-reales).

Drone restrictions. It is tempting to fly a drone but be advised that You are right next to a military zone. Altitude limit of 120 meters is a must and bear in mind that everything to the south-east (the main surface road indicates a no-fly zone) is a military zone. 

Be advised that this area is right next to an air-force military zone and You may expect some unusual spectacle. Throughout the night some spanish F/A 18s Jets were practicing low altitude target shooting, circling around the dessert in pairs at regular intervals. Loud sonic booms got mixed with some additional, mysterious noises and I only found out what it was the next day. Taking advantage of the warm summer night I enjoyed the late supper waiting for another round of fast-moving red blinking lights coming towards me. F/A 18 was flying noiselessly, did some manoeuvres and vamoosed. The rumbling sonic boom came a few seconds later when the plane was no longer visible.

The mysterious noise I heard by night turned out to be a result of deploying life round of ammunition on the target. The same spectacle repeated itself the next morning. As I hiked one of the hills for a sunrise I got the best lookout point over the valley and could even see a straight target line they were aiming at.

Morning view towards the military zone.