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The Walks
The Poqueira Valley: Pampaneira, Bubión, Capileira
Capileira Village Stroll - 2½ hours including
visits
Capileira - Mulhacén - Capileira - Circular route
omitting the hostal, 7½ to 10 hours including rests. Capileira to
hostal 6 to 8 hours including rests. Hostal to Capileira 4½ to 6 hours
including rests.
Capileira and the river - 2 hours plus picnic
time.
Bubión - River Valley - Capileira - Bubión - 3½ hours plus
any time spent in Capileira.
Bubión - O Sel ing - Bubión - 5 hours plus rests and visiting
time. Easily shortened by 2 hours.
La Taha de Pitres
Linking the main villages of La Taha (de Pitres)
- The route is '8'-shaped. Starting at Pórtugos there are three possibilities:
complete route: 5-7 hours including stops and lunch. Points (1)-(13)
- 2-3 hours; points (13) onwards - 2-3 hours.
Six Villages of La Taha and the Gorge - 4-5 hours
including rests and diversions. 8 hours if including a mid-summer
siesta.
A short stroll above Pitres - 1½-3 hours depending on capacity
to dawdle.
The best Alpujarran path - 4 hours walking but better treated
as an all day walk, with picnic and diversions 6 hours or more.
Trevelez
The Río Trevelez and the Río Culo de Perro - 6 hours. 8
hours including riverside siesta.
Las Siete Lagunas - 3,000m - 7½ to 10 hours for the return
trip.
Bérchules
A long half day from Bérchules - 4 to 5 hours.
A long day in the Río Grande - 7½ - 9 hours PLUS STOPS.
Start early and make sure there are enough daylight hours.
A Short Stroll above Bérchules - 2 hours.
Mecina Bombarón
Both Sides of the Valley - 4½ hours walking, 5-7 including
rest, picnics, paddling etc.
The Acequias - 3 hours walking. 4 or 5 hours for those
who take their dawdling seriously.
Peñon del Puerto, 2,750m - 5½ to 8 hours
Yegen
La Salud (fountain of health) - A leisurely 2½
hours
Sendero de Gerald Brenan - 1½ to 2½ hours plus 1 hour for
the La Puente return.
Las Encinas - 3½ - 4½ hours Yegen - Mecina Bombarón, 1½
- 2½ hours Mecina Bombarón - Yegen, 5 - 7 hours total circular route.
Miscellaneous Walks
Puerto Juviléy - 3 hours walking plus paddling and picnic
time.
Río Guadalfeo, Cástaras and Notaez - 4 to 5 hours plus
a possible 2 hour diversion.
Haza de Lino, Sierra de la Contraviesa - 4 to 5 hours plus
rests.
Juviles, Timar - 3 to 5 hours, more for serious dawdlers
and picnickers.
Granada City
How to visit Granada
A bit of city life - From 2 hours upwards.
The Albaicín - It depends on your interests but I suggest
mid-morning through lunch to evening.
Around the Alhambra Hill - There is too much in this walk
to enjoy in one day.
Appendices
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