WHITE VILLAGES OF ANDALUCIA GROUP TOUR

Included
Hire of 21speed hybrid cycle and equipment
B&B in hotels, inns and poadas in rooms with shower/wc
Luggage transport
Tour information including maps and routes
Tour guide and support vehicle
Transfers Malaga Airport


Excluded

Lunches and Dinners

Extras
Single rooms
Extra nights available

Access: by air to Malaga Airport
transfer from/to tour start.

Duration: 7 Nights/8 Days

Start: 11th February, 30th September 2006

Level 2

 

Price £605
Single Supplement £85

RondaDay 1. Arrive RONDA
Transfer from Málaga Airport to Ronda. Explore the town in its spectacular setting, divided by a ravine. Enjoy the typical Andalusian architecture and visit the famous bullring. Collect cycles and briefing.

Day 2. Circular tour from Ronda 31ml(50km)
Explore the Serranía de Ronda with its magnificent scenery dotted with picturesque white villages. Visit the fascinating village of Setenil de las Bodegas, where the inhabitants live in house-caves built to the rock.
Reservoir Zahara
Day 3. RONDA - ZAHARA DE LA SIERRA 49ml(78km)
Head west through the beautiful mountains and the "Parque Natural Sierra de Grazalemaisit" to the village of Grazalema with its mix of Moorish and mountain architecture. From Grazalema, descend to follow the shores of the reservoir of Zahara - El Gastor. The overnight stop, Zahara de la Sierra, is another fine village in a wonderful setting.

Day 4 ZAHARA DE LA SIERRA - ARCOS DE LA FRONTERA 75ml(47km)
ArcosLeaving Zahara, head through the Parque Nacional de Grazalema, famous for its beautiful scenery and unique wildlife. Begin the descent towards Arcos de la Frontera, one of the most famous of the white villages, perched high on a hill and dominated by its castle.

Day 5. ARCOS DE LA FRONTERA - MEDINA SIDONIA 47ml(75km)
Cycle southwards
Medinafrom Arcos towards the Parque Natural de los Alcornocales, one of the largest cork forests in Europe and on reaching the park, turn south towards the Atlantic coast. Tonight's stop is in the village of Medina Sidonia, an old Arab fortress town perched high above the Cádiz countryside.


Day 6. MEDINA SIDONIA - VEJER DE LA FRONTERA 44ml(71km)
From Medina Sidonia, head down towards the coast and cross the flat lands of La Janda where fighting bulls may be grazing. At the hilltop village of Vejer de la Frontera there is some leisure time to explore this enchanting village. Its chaotic street plan, and indeed of most of the villages en route, is evidence of the Arab heritage of Spain.

 

Day 7. VEJER DE LA FRONTERA - ZAHARA DE LOS ATUNES/TARIFA 25ml/50ml(40km/80km)
Pass CapeTrafalgar lighthouse and continue through

Barbate, famous for its peculiar "almadraba" method of fishing for tuna. Cape TrafalgarAt the fishing village of Zahara de los Atunes there is the Palace of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia and from here it is an optional cycle to Tarifa, windsurfers paradise and southernmost point of Western Europe. Transfer to Mijas near Málaga for the last night.

 

Day 8. Depart MIJAS
Transfer to Malaga airport.

 

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