Latest Walks in Sierra Espuña

Today's walk up to the ruin at Fuente Alta as described earlier.

Will pass under there later

Old terraces from the farm

Ruined farm house

Don't even think about it, were going to Peru next week!

Another walk with friends.  One of them had a birthday so I carried some snacks and a small bottle of wine to celebrate at the high point of the route.

Afterwards we went to Venta La Rata restaurant for another good menu del dia.

A few days ago we took two friends (and a dog) on a walk in Espuña.

Some of our latest walks.

Seven of us walked up to the statue of Jesus today. We then descended down to La Santa, before continuing back down to eat again at Venta La Rata.

Yesterday we took the "group" and five other walkers from the camperstop on a local walk. It started and finished at Venta del Rata restaurant because they wanted to eat there again!  The group are splitting up tomorrow to go their separate ways, so this was their last lunch together for a while.  We had a few non walkers who opted for the meal only and we ended up with a party of 17.

We walked up the GR route (long distance route) on a rambla as far as La Santa and then descended back down to the forest house "Morti" before returning to the restaurant via another rambla (dry river).

Climbing a retaining wall in the rambla

Along the GR

Ascending the rambla

Cueva de la Moneda

We did a walk from home to take a friend up to see this cave which is near to the Morron Rodondo (Round Mountain).  It is quite an easy walk but to enter and exit the cave you need either ropes or a ladder.  Nevertheless you can see some way into the cave from the opening.  One day we'll go in and see if we can see the rumoured wall paintings.

Walking up the Black Cliffs Valley

Morron Redondo

Cave Entrance

View into the "Money Cave" (Cueva de la Moneda)

Reluctantly leaving the cave without visiting!

We have been doing some exploring of lesser known parts of Sierra Espuña.  Below are some photos from some of the walks.

The first are photos of a walk from La Muela into the "Badlands" of Gebas.

Walking up towards the Casa Forestal in La Muela (near Alhama de Murcia)

View into the "Badlands"

Descending down into the bottom of the barranco

In the bottom of the barranco after crossing the wet area

Another view of the "Badlands" behind our walkers

The next set of pictures are from a walk to find and follow an old route under the south side of Pedro Lopez (in Sierra Espuña).

Looking up to where we will be walking later

After the first short climb (Espuña) in the background

The beginning of the contouring path

Looking towards Morron Espuña

On the old path

Looking back towards Almeria

From the end of the walk looking back up

Our next walk into the unknown was very close to home.  We call it the "Secret Valley" because it seems to be unknown to most locals.

Near the start of the walk heading towards the "Park"

On the old path

In the "Secret Valley"

Looking back down the "Valley"

Mining activity? in the "Valley"

Returning down Los Parades Negras (Black Cliffs)

Morron Redondo from the Black Cliffs track

More views from the Black Cliffs track

Looking up the cliffs