It was Thursday and it’s ‘día del descubrimiento’, this is when a small group of us go out and check-out a new route that we have never done before. Today is was a route that I found on the Ayuntamiento Alora tourismo site. The first surprise was that the car park where we were to start from was almost full, but fortunately we did get parked and off we went.
The start of the walk was down a very steep hill on the edge of town, and it always amazes me how the little old bandy legged Spanish grandma’s manage to negotiate these climbs. We cross the road, past a few terraced houses, and head off into the campo. The early part of the walk is along tarmac roads but these soon end and we are onto the familiar compacted gravel surface. We pass a number of villas and Olive groves and have the view across the Guadlhorce valley on one side and the cliffs of Monte Hacho on the other. The route winds and undulates between villas and orchards and eventually we have the rare view of arable land ahead of us. 
We now have views across to Alhaurin and Coin but still with the cliffs of Monte Hacho on our right. It is amazing that these are still standing because their composition is of a loose sand and gravel mixture, indeed holes are visible where birds have constructed their homes in the rock faces.
We now take a left and follow a track that leads around a very active working farm, and this is where the highlight of the walk came. A coral of kids (baby goats), all of which were very inquisitive and friendly, we spent some time here relaxing in the glories of nature. We continue around the edge of the farm and past what presumably were the kids parents, and out into the country with fabulous open views across the valley of Arroyo de Alcuna. Our route then takes us to the ‘Roman’ Fuenta which unfortunately was very short of water by big on rubbish!
We then head back to the start and shortly rejoin the route that we had taken at the start, it’s then the steep climb back to the car park.
The weather was again very kind to us with clear blue skies and plenty of sunshine; however the wind was quite strong and did have a bite to it.
There were a few short sharp inclines and my legs knew that they had done a good walk, but this was a very successful route that was well liked by everyone and will definitely be included in the itinerary.
More photos of this walk can be found on the pages in the right hand column.
More photos of this walk can be found on the pages in the right hand column.
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