Playacalida Almunecar
Urb. Torregalera, S/N Almunecar, Andalusia, 18690, Spain and Canary Islands
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Collado de Umbrales
... for about 17 passengers), but there are about 30 of us waiting to get on it. A few people get into private cars instead of the bus, but it's still well overloaded as we start out. Fortunately, we're not going far, but the road up towards Acebuchal is quite steep in places and you can tell that the bus only gets up it with a struggle!We get off at Cuatro Caminos, at the end of the surfaced road and start walking at the usual cracking pace. Many of these people are ...
Unbelievable natural beauty
... minutes' drive above Torrox. We stayed in a beautiful 3 bedroom house, open plan living/dining/kitchen, wooden sliding glass sliding doors to the big terrace overlooking the pool. With the most amazing view of the valley, steep on both sides and covered mostly with olive trees, but also grapes, avacadoes and mangoes, all in season. And at the end of the valley the Mediterranean Sea. Who wouldn't chuck it all and move here to soak up ...
Collado de los Civiles
... rain.
Someone must have once had the misconception that this track should be regarded as a proper road. First of all, there's a large road sign at the col stating that this is indeed the Collado Paez Blanca and that we're at 750m of altitiude. Then a few yards further on, there's another road sign stating that the speed limit is 30kph. Up to now, the track has been extremely rough, pitted with ruts and very narrow, and from here on there is a big drop on one side - ...
Cielo
... is beginning to look a bit smaller and after a bit I'm higher than its summit. But still not halfway yet.
After 2 hours I get to my usual snack stop at La Civilia. This is a group of ruined houses and walled compunds on a rare piece of flattish ground at 780m. There's still a bit of activity going on here - quite a few beehives and occasional building work, though nothing much. The place got its name because of a woman who lived here who liked ...
South to Granada
... lead down to the Genil river, a tributary of the Guadalquivir which flows into the Atlantic on the south coast, even though the Genil rises less than 50 km from the Mediterranean to the south east. The Genil runs shallow through a concrete culvert through most of Grenada, except for a short stretch where it has been dammed to increase its depth. Just across the river the Park de los Ciencias contains a number of exhibitions of scientific, artistic and historical ...



