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Sur in English has an article with interesting background information regarding the Mozárabe from Malaga:
Nowadays the towns of Almogía and Villanueva de la Concepción are linked by one stage of the Mozarabic Way of St James, a route that runs through Malaga province. This hiking route allows...
That sounds ike a great plan! You are right that the views between Tarifa and Algeciras are stunning. And you get to watch the steady stream of ships heading to the Strait of Gibralter. We loved it.
If you decide you'd like to walk all the way, here are some Wikiloc tracks that might help you...
If you are used to using AllTrails, you would probably find it easy to use Wikiloc, a similar Spanish trails app with an incredible number of participants, and thus, an amazing amount of local information.
Stephan, after thoroughly enjoying your paintings and drawings in this thread, and knowing that you might have a few minutes of relaxation time in Salamanca, I thought you might be interested in these drawings that I just ran across of traditional buildings in the Alpujarra by the architect...
Tim, is the book you are looking for possibly The Road from Ronda or Sierras of the South, both by Alastair Boyd? They are wonderful books about his travels by horse through the mountains of Andalucia. Or was it Gerald Brenan's classic South from Granada?
Here are some interesting links if anyone wants more information:
GR's in Spain by province
PR's in Andalucia
Types of signposted trails on the GR 249
Interactive map for the GR 249
Wow, @p_mci, that is such helpful information! Thank you for taking the time to include all the details. I can just picture what a help that would have been to us.
That's exactly what I thought when I first discovered it. It's good you have a Mac to do this on, because it is finicky on a phone. If it ends up not working properly for you, Gaia GPS also allows you to snip the ends of a track and save the new track. I love Gaia for another reason: it lets me...
@GuyA, I've been happy with using GPX Editor, but it is for a Mac. And GPX Studio is great. You can split a track easily and visually by following their directions:
https://gpx.studio/about.html#split-file:
Directions from their user manual: There are two options for splitting tracks:
Use the...
Thanks, Bill! This is very interesting to see. It looks like stage 6 of La Vuelta will pass through Ronda on August 8th. Via Serrana walkers may get to see some of the race then.
Damien, how great to see a posting from you!
You may not be seeing very many cows now, but I was just reading this morning how plentiful they used to be in the small villages there. It was traditional to have a single shepherd (called a dulero) who daily took all the villagers' cattle, sheep...
That is great news, @Damien Reynolds. In addition to taking a bus or taxi from the airport into Almeria, if it interests you, it also possible to walk 9 km directly from the airport into the city along a very nice paseo maritimo. It's even along a camino route - Stage one in reverse of the new...
The Almeria branch of ADR Alpujarra has recently put up a series of 13 videos (each about 12 minutes long) on the historical and geographical features to be seen while walking the Camino Mozarabe. I found them quite interesting. Topics touched upon include such things as noteworthy rivers...
It opened perfectly for me on my computer the first time I clicked on the link. I bookmarked it because it looked so handy. And then when I tried to show it to someone else a few minutes later, neither my bookmarked link nor the the original link above would open. Strange...
You are sure right about the possibility of nice weather! Here's a link to the journal we put on FindPenguins about the Argar. The first stages are especially nice because they go through the protected area of the Parque Natural Cabo de Gata and thus do not have the commercial build-up that...
Stephan, another route to consider is the new camino Ruta del Argar that starts in Almeria.
Here's how it measures up to your goals:
--It's in southern Spain.
--The first stages are parallel to the coast and have few elevation changes.
--The walking is mostly on dirt and gravel tracks. There is...
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