A three night trip to the the area around El Churro with our walking group. It's around a 1.5 hour drive from Nerja.
We finish with a walk on the Caminito del Rey, which looks far more frighting than it turns out to be... once we are on the walkway, that is.
so what is the Caminito?
A wooden walkway pinned to the sides of a deep gorge...
you might know this already...
The original Caminito was fitted to the sides of the gorge in 1906 to access a 3 km water channel that was constructed to generate hydro-electric power; quite some achievement back then. This followed the construction of a railway through the gorge by the creation of a series of tunnels, completed in 1865.
The walkway was originally known as Balconcillos de los Gaitanes but was given its current name in 1921 when King Alfonso XIII walked along it as part of the inauguration of the new El Churro dam; that was quite an achievement, too, because the original walkway was decidedly dodgy in 21st Century health and safety terms.
The new walkway was completed and opened in Spring 2015.
here we are trying it out...
You Tube Clip
now, the photos...
Looks very different from down here
Variations in height along the route
The old bridge alongside the new
We finish with a walk on the Caminito del Rey, which looks far more frighting than it turns out to be... once we are on the walkway, that is.
so what is the Caminito?
A wooden walkway pinned to the sides of a deep gorge...
you might know this already...
The original Caminito was fitted to the sides of the gorge in 1906 to access a 3 km water channel that was constructed to generate hydro-electric power; quite some achievement back then. This followed the construction of a railway through the gorge by the creation of a series of tunnels, completed in 1865.
The walkway was originally known as Balconcillos de los Gaitanes but was given its current name in 1921 when King Alfonso XIII walked along it as part of the inauguration of the new El Churro dam; that was quite an achievement, too, because the original walkway was decidedly dodgy in 21st Century health and safety terms.
The new walkway was completed and opened in Spring 2015.
here we are trying it out...
You Tube Clip
now, the photos...
Looks very different from down here
Variations in height along the route
Approaching the bridge across the gorge
The old bridge alongside the new
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