Spain 2024: Bardenas Reales de Navarra
27 March '24 - My plan was to go to the Bardenas Reales badlands in Navarre on Monday for a few days and explore the three different zones the area has by bike. By car you are only allowed in La Blanca Baja (the low white Bardena), which is only about one-tenth of the total area [...]
Spain 2024: Sierra De Gredos hikes
20 March '24: walk to the source of Río TormesDeparture from Camping Navagredos to the source of Río Tormes and back via a magnificent coniferous forest. I don't know if the large dolmen at the source dates from prehistoric times. I found nothing about it on the internet - except that it is located there - and it does not seem authentic to me. [...]
Spain 2024: Walk in the Guadalora valley
17 March '24 - Sendero Guadalora: Last week's postponed walk in the Sierra de Hornachuelos nature reserve took place today. As I was staying at a rural campsite about 25 km from there, I was still able to participate. It became a beautiful, varied hike through typical Mediterranean landscapes, with lots of stone and cork oaks. Manuel Ramon Ternero Villalobos knows the beautiful [...]
Spain 2024: Torcal de Antequera Hike
13 March '24 - Torcal de Antequera Walk (Yellow route: 3 km) 200 million years ago, this part of Andalusia was below sea level. High limestone deposits of shells, crustacean remains, etc., formed on the sea floor. 20 million years ago, the European and African continents collided and the seabed was raised to above [...]
Spain 2024: Walking tour sendero de Carboneras (11km)
10 March '24: Sendero de Carboneras Saturday evening I arrived at the home of Manuel Ramon Ternero Villalobos and Carmen Ruiz Ponce in Marchena around 6pm. Like last year, a very warm welcome awaited me. Jennifer, an American Warm Showers cyclist, was also staying with Manuel. She had stayed an extra night because of the heavy rain on Saturday. Manuel had the for Sunday [...]
Spain 2023: Cabo de Gata hiking and cycling tours
Note: The photos are all grouped in one Cabo de Gata album on Flickr. Slide your cursor over a photo to see where it was taken. You can reach the photo album via the button below. At the top left of the Flickr page, you can indicate whether you want the view in full screen or in tiles. Photos [...]
Spain 2023: Tabernas desert and Sierra Alhamilla
17-18-19 Dec: Tabernas desert and Sierra AlhamillaSaturday we drove from Los Coloraos above Gorafe to Tabernas. Near the village of Tabernas - again with a closed visitor centre - is 'Texas-Hollywood - Fort Bravo', a staged Western village where films by Sergio Leone and others were shot. Blockbusters such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Indiana Jones [...]
Spain 2023: Gorafe geodetic park
Dec 14-15-16 - Gorafe: 'Los Coloraos', choral singing, icy hot springs and megaliths After a long drive of +200km, we arrived in the village of Gorafe a little before dusk on Thursday evening. This is in the middle of a geodesic nature reserve. There are also 240 prehistoric megaliths spread over a dozen sites in the vicinity. It [...]
Spain 2023: Walk Abanilla desert (8km)
11 Dec '23: Sweat hike through Abanilla desert (8 km)On Monday evening we arrived in Desierto de Abanilla, a remarkable desert area north of Murcia. It looks like a moonscape with a very peculiar relief with deeply cut ridges and ridges. The subsoil consists of a cement-like mortar. We arrived just in time to witness the sunset [...]
Spain 2023: Walk around the Buseo reservoir
10 December '23: Embalse de Buseo hike (13 km) Nice and, for 90%, easy hike around the Buseo reservoir on wide gravel paths. The devil was in the last 5 km from the dam to the village of Chera: a climb along a steep rocky path from the reservoir to a path above the roadway, a difference in altitude [...]
