A fantastic mountain hike with some challenges: 6 days of natural landscapes without shopping facilities, without (inhabited) buildings, and in the nature we found wild herbs and some mushrooms to eat, but no fruits. There were at least one water source a day.
We wanted to live on raw food (like all events on this website), without bread, without baked goods, without cooking... So we brought mainly dried fruits, seeds and nuts to the mountains, 12 kg for 3 people, plus 4 kg of fresh fruits and vegetables. This worked well, when we reached the first village on the seventh day, we still had some food left.
Along the border between the provinces of M谩laga and Granada there is a mountain range, the highest elevation is La Maroma (2.070m). We hiked on top of this mountain range. Start and end point were my leased land near the Mediterranean coast near Nerja. We went back via the mountain villages Salares, Canillas de Albaida, C贸mpeta and Frigiliana.
If you click on following photos, you will see them in better quality:
Tuesday (19 May, 2020):
Nava Chica (1,830m) in view! It's visible from Nerja but not from my land, the beginning of the hike.
Fuente del Esparto, close by we spend our first night of the hike.
Wednesday:
We walk a few km through a dry river bed...
...and on paths, once created with great effort...
... probably for the mine work. We find on the way this mine.
Hello that's me :-)
We reach the top of the Nava Chica (1,830m)!
View to the east, in the background the snow-capped mountains of the Sierra Nevada (up to 3,480m).
View to the west, in the background La Maroma (2,070m), in the middle Lucero (1,770m)
Aim'jie is tired. We decide to sleep here on the path, close to a spring.
Thursday:
Break with view to the northeast
Balance on the ridge, not for everyone, but funny
The flowers in the foreground are related to the dandelion, and edible.
On the top of La Cadena (1,640m)
It's steep on two sides
Sleeping place on a hill in front of Lucero (1,770m)
I like to make the sleeping place really flat
Friday:
There's only one path to the top of Lucero on the other side of the mountain. So we go up without path on the ridge.
As you can see, the right end of the ridge is difficult to pass. There we walk a little below the ridge, on the north side.
First we take a path. Close to the ridge, there is the Mirador del Agua.
Now we see more clear: here we shouldn't go on the crest!
We take a lot of breaks. Aim'jie is drinking and eating, she has put figs in the water.
We reach the summit of Lucero!
Looking back to Nava Chica
Looking forward to La Maroma
Aim'jie often find faces in the rocks. You too? Here it's a head with a bird on top.
"Rasp贸n de los Moriscos" is another name for Lucero.
This is the fifth water source on our Walkabout. At the arrow a bit of water comes out of the rock.
Saturday:
The sixt source. I try to bath in the pool but I don't fit in :-)
We reach La Maroma (2,070m)! We decide to sleep there and to stay there until next afternoon.
Sunday:
La Maroma has a huge platform on top. I find there dandelion.
The seventh source, Fuente de la Tacita
The path leads us through a gap in the rock.
Special kind of thistle
We sleep on this meadow, the horses are not far.
Monday:
We start to go down to the village Salares.
Break on a beautiful place. Over the rock you can see down to the village Sedella.
We still have some dried food. And nature gives us mushrooms (bovists), chickweed and plantain.
We met the farmer of the horses on top. Down in the village, we visit him. He has also sheeps and goats, completely natural feeded. He gives us milk.
Tuesday:
You can see three places without vegetation. That were our sleeping places, before Canillas de Albaida.
Canillas de Albaida
Mirador de la Arjona at the Puerto Collado, between C贸mpeta and Acebuchal
Wednesday:
Last sleeping place, before Acebuchal
Frigiliana
Rio Higueron, behind Frigiliana. The arrow shows the cave in that we had a siesta.
In the river bed we find this old bike.
They try it also with two people. But no way, they have to walk with me also the remaining 5km ;-)
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