It was good to get out again after the really bad weather of the past week and everyone must have felt the same as we had almost 30 on the walk today, including 5 newcomers and welcome to you all.
This is a route that some of us have done a couple of tomes before but one that you can never tire of.
We started in the poligono behind the BP Petrol Station and set off up a gentle incline that passed between Avocado plantations. Despite the recent heavy rainfall the tracks were surprisingly dry. After a while we reach the most unusual sight of the Donkey Safari Station,unfortunately I can't find out anything about it, but can only assume that in thr 70'and 80's coaches filled with Thomson tourists arrived from the coast at the venta on the old A355 to be met by donkeys and were then ridden to the Safari station for a lunch of Paella, those were the days!
Our route then takes us to the valley side with views of the Dolamite Quarry in the foreground and the Guadalhorce valley and Malaga mountains beyond. We then descended into the valley and returned via the same route back to the Donkey Station. We then take the track with the Avocado plantations on one side and the forest on the other until we reach the old Helicopter landing area. It is then mainly downhill through the pine woods back to the start.
This is a journal of my and my group’s hiking and walking exploits in the Malaga region of southern Spain, I am about 15 kms inland from the Costa del Sol. This is a most beautiful part of Spain with lots of varying scenery from high mountains to green river valleys and with numerous types of flora and fauna including Olive groves and Orange orchards, Eucalyptus woods and rows of Almond and Walnut trees. The weather is sunny and warm, the skies are clear and the walking is glorious.
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