Category: Pueblos Blancos
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Out of the mountains of Andalusia, towards Cadiz
We left Grazalema to begin descending towards the coast, planning to stay in Arcos de la Frontera and Jerez de la Frontera along the way before ending in Cadiz, where we will take a train to Huelva. There, we’ll begin the last part of this trip, ending in Lisbon where we’ll start our air journey…
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A beautiful day! Ronda to Grazalema through a cork forest
We woke up around 8AM, since the sun only comes up at 8:09 here at this time! We are close to the equinox, so the sunset is about 12 hours later, at 8:23. We had a short day today, less than 18 miles with less than 2,000 feet of climbing and so we took our…
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Ronda! Amazing bridges!
Ronda is simply beautiful. Unlike Seville or Madrid that could easily take weeks to explore, Ronda is simple in that it can be explored in a day, Its 3 amazing bridges define it, spanning the El Tajo Gorge, a 329-foot deep rocky canyon carved into the mountains by the River Guadalevin. The highest is New…
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What we came for: Pueblos Blancos!
We woke today to the unexpected noise of rain outside, fat raindrops that were forecast to stop about 10:30AM. What a surprise! We had somehow resigned ourselves to hot and dry while down south but cooler and even somewhat wet was OK for us and certainly for the farmers around us. Today was deliberately a…