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🇪🇸 Ruta de la LANA (Valencia/Alicante - Burgos)
BP on the Requena (from Valencia) June 2022
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[QUOTE="Bad Pilgrim, post: 1043160, member: 50859"] [B]Day 10: Cardenete - Monteagudo de las Salinas, 28 kms (+ 6 kms[/B]) I was excited this morning. I would join the Lana from Alicante and arrive at the luxurious El Rincón de Sandra in one of my favorite places on the Lana: Monteagudo de las Salinas. I had many things to look forward to! Unfortunately, my excitement would soon give way to anger, disappointment and despair. At least for a while. It started out good with a hill after Cardenete, from where I could look out over undisturbed mountains and woods. I passed the hamlet of Yémeda, and walked by the peculiar buildings of the old balneario that is being restored next to the river. It must look cool when it is finished. After the balneario, an arrow pointed me up the hill on the asphalt. Only after having walked 3 kms on the road, and having reached the top, did I realize I should have turned right at the balneario and not walked up the hill at all. This section of the Camino is flat flat flat. I had just climbed a mountain. I was heading towards Paracuellos de La Vega, on the "other" Lana! I walked down to the balneario again, furious, adding a total of 6 kms to the day's walk. The explanation is that a road sign with an arrow was overgrown. Pilgrims beware. I had planned to walk 28 kms, not 34. I now thought I would be dead before reaching Monteagudo. The scenery soon distracted me: this stage is one of the most scenic on the Lana from Valencia. The Camino meandered along the bottom of the hills (that I had just climbed) next to a river and through the woods. Mostly in the shadow. I was mesmerized and went [I]ooh[/I] and [I]aah[/I] at every turn, trying to capture at least some of the beauty with my deplorable cellphone. The middle part of the stage is also spectacular. The Camino leaves the river and goes uphill through a landscape with rocks and boulders in strange formations. No shadow any more, but breathtaking views all around. I reached the ridge, where I walked in the breeze for a while. Today would be only 28C in Monteagudo. It is the coolest weather I have had so far. The last section goes through the pine woods and the open fields that I recall from my earlier visits on the Lana from Alicante. Soon I reached the spot where the two routes merge. It felt special to me, and I was back on familiar ground. The rest was an easy walk to Monteagudo. The castle of the town, on top of a hill - or rather a mound - is visible a couple of kms before you get there. It looks like a Mexican pyramid. The arrival to Monteagudo offers one of the most majestic views of a town on the Lana in my opinion. The town only has 150 inhabitants but is imbued with Camino history. The branches of Valencia and Alicante meet here, and the "proper" Lana starts here as indicated by a monument. Three pilgrims started from Monteagudo de las Salinas in 1624 to fulfill their promise to walk to Santiago de Compostela. There is some sort of albergue in town. But who can resist the charm of El Rincón de Sandra? 25 euros. Sandra and her husband waited for me at the door and she recognized me, just as she recognized me three years ago. They must think I am crazy running around like this in the area. The bar is only open on week-ends now, but there is a grocery store. You have to ring the bell for the señora to open it to you, which is what I will do later in the evening. I hope she is home! It started to rain while I wrote this. A cool night I hope. Tomorrow: Fuentes [I]or[/I] Cuenca. [/QUOTE]
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