Ermita de las Nieves - Tolox - Thursday 07 April 2016

The village of Tolox is somewhere that I have only made a fleeting visit to some years ago, but today I realised what a gem that I had missed, I was well impressed by the village. However there does seem to be a major problem with parking and it would not be wise to put this on our Saturday schedule as there would be nowhere to park.

The whole hike started off somewhat fraught as to find somewhere to park was a challenge to say the least, as the village consists of many very narrow and very steep streets I thought it less than wise to venture to the interior of the village.

From finding somewhere to park on the edge of the village and far from our scheduled start the next problem occurred, no satellite signal for the GPX file to work (bring back paper maps) so we were navigating blind. Chris thought that the route was at the top of the village and we set off climbing a route known as the 100 steps, this is not steps as in footsteps but steps as in stairs, we eventually reached the mirador and were able to take a well earned break, and we hadn't even left the village yet.

We then took a variety of tracks but never was the GPS showing us on the right route, we eventually came to a dead end and it was at this point that Nessa phoned a friend only to be told that the route that we wanted passed her house. We then headed back to the edge of the village and down to the river where we found a signpost for the Ermita and a notice board with a map. 

At last we were on the right track. We took this for some distance and then came to a fork with 2 ambiguous signs, this was not my best day and we took the wrong fork. It was another turn around and back to the fork and take the other route. At last this was the right path and we eventually found our destination.

Despite all the wrong turns and confusion the scenery was again stunning.

We decided that discretion was the best course and returned back along the same track arriving back into the village and into a local Bar/Restaurant for refreshment and a fantastic tomato salad.  

The was a certain amount of good humoured ribbing but this is what our Thursday walks of discovery are all about, it's all about finding new places to see.

The weather today was a bit too kind to us as it turned out to be very warm.

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