Ecotourism 04. Inland Andalusia

Walking
Walking is an ideal way of
coming in contact with
nature. There are routes
for all ages and different degrees of
difficulty. The inland nature parks
and the nature reserves have very
attractive itineraries. Walking as
well as cycling is more and more
popular along some of the ancient
train lines no longer in use.
Rights of way have been recovered,
there are riverbeds and extensive
sand dunes near the beaches, all
excellent walking, like the area
surrounding the Doñana
National Park,
or through the
marshes at the
estuary of the
Guadalquivir
river. In Málaga
there are
marked walks
through the
Torcal in Antequera
and the
ancient routes
through villages in
the Axarquía in the province
of Málaga, like the
ones that leaves Torrox,
down to Frigiliana and on
to Nerja and then ascends up the
river Chillar.
Sierra Nevada (Granada)
In Cazorla there is the famous track
named after Félix Rodríguez de la
Fuente, in honour of this eminent
naturalist, along 16 kilometres
through beautiful countryside. There
are also routes in the Alpujarra
in Granada, “white trekking” with
snow shoes.
In fact, Andalucía offers a wide
network of routes in its promotions
of inland areas through exuberant
and attractive landscapes that put
you in contact with the flora in the
mountain villages or the varied fauna
that lives in the mountains and
nature parks.
Mountaineering
Andalusia is very mountainous and
home to the highest peaks
on mainland Spain, Mulhacén
and el Veleta
in Sierra Nevada in
Granada. There is
an excellent network
of parador
hotels, youth
hostels, mountain
shelters
and places where
you can camp wild
in the mountains,
mythical places like
the Sierra Morena, the
Bética mountain chain,
Cazorla, Segura y Las
Villas, the mountains of
Grazalema in Cádiz and Los Alcornocales,
not forgetting the Picos
de Aroche and Sierra de Aracena
in Huelva. As well as the Sierra de
Filabres in Tabernas (Almería) or the
Gaitanes Gorge (Málaga) where as
well as mountaineering there are
ideal crags for rock climbing.
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