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Granada – The Alhambra |
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Cordoba |
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Seville |
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Costa del Sol – Malaga |
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Horseback riding – There are a number of stables
in this region, famous for its high-spirited, fairy-tale like horses.
Both English and Western riding is popular, and you can ride on beaches,
mountains, or meadows. Some stables even offer adventures that lead from
town to town over several days. This is also a wonderful place to buy
fancy tack. |
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Grazalema Natural Park –
In the region known for its "white towns" this is the heart of
Andalucia, sitting in a cup formed by Sevilla, Cadiz, and Malaga. Go rock-climbing,
hiking, hang-gliding, horseback riding, biking in an area that has been
held by the Iberians, Celts, Romans, Visigoths, and Arabs. If all that hiking
leaves you hot and sweaty – head for the caves! |
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Donana National Park – The
largest, most famous of the Spanish National Parks. Salt marshes, lagoons,
dunes, the scenery is always shifting as the water elevations rise and fall.
Thousands of geese and flamingoes gather here in the winter. In the Spring,
this may be one of the busiest places in birdland, with thousands of nests
from dozens of species spilling out chicks, including: blackbirds, doves,
eagle, egrets, herons, magpies, pigeon, spoonbills, storks and thrushes.
You will also find deer, polecat, badger and boar roaming the dunes, or
even a lynx or mongoose (the only place in Europe you'll find them). |
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Sierra Norte Nature Park - A
wonderful area of holm, cork, and oak tree groves, where the river Ribera
del Huéznar is born in the San Nicolás Pass. This is an unpopulated area,
used in some seasons as a hunting preserve. Deer and wild boar are everywhere
– you may even see a few lynx. |
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Natural Park of the Cazorla, Segura and
Las Villas Sierras – Just east of the Sierra Morena mountains,
by the Guadalquivir, you'll find wild olive trees (and cultivated orchards
of olives and almonds), pine trees, oaks, junipers and noble brushwood.
Mountain goats, deer, and wild boar, and the mouflon run free here. |
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Cape of Gata-Níjar Natural Park – This is where you can see the emerging volcanos of the Gata Sierra.
From here you can hike by Puntas Entinas and the Adra Lagoon, where you
can see a half dozen types of gulls, and then up to Herradura (horseshoe),
a beach famous for its tropical fruit crops. Passing the coves of Cerro
Gordo, head for the cliffs of Maro and end up in Malaga. |
