| [May. 21st, 2006|11:06 pm]
Hi! Ho! Hi! Ho! Its off to Europe I go!
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My favourite part of the trip, was hiking in the Sierra Cazorla for two days. These were the two days we didn't have planned when we left for Spain, and I suggested we hike here after reading the Lonely Planet guide on the bus back from Ferrierola (when Pete was feeling icky from the turns). So we booked it through the Youth Hostel Network at the reception in Seville.
Tiny village. Really beautiful - very different from the Alpujarras villages. But still narrow windy streets. The bus was via Jaen and we had to change. Getting there was just through MILE upon MILE of olive trees. Jaen province produces 10% of the worlds olive oil. You can see the immensity of this in some of the photos coming up.
We went to hike. The evening we arrived it had rained on and off all day. The next day it was overcast and cool but didn't rain. We got lost. We were trying to do the Lonely Planet hike up and around Cazorla (17.5km long), and got lost at a wrong turn near the Monastery. So the first day, was still good, just not what we were planning.
The second day (because we cancelled our first night in Madrid ands tayed an extra day - BRILLIANT idea!!) was absolutely stunning. SUnny and warm enough to hike in our tshirts even when we were several km above sealevel.
The highlights were: ~just the amazing scenery~ feeling like we were the only people in the world~seeing some kind of giant birds of prey riding the thermals~meeting a semi-hermitic monk~walking 19km in 8 hours and that achy heavy feeling you get when youfinally sit/lie down.
So, this is going to be VERY image intensive, with (hopefully, because i do like to babble on) just little tags underneath. If you want to know all about the whole path we took and stuff you can read my diary when I get home.
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