Ronda to Jerez - on foot and by bus/taxi?
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Ronda to Jerez - on foot and by bus/taxi?
Hi! I could use some advice on a White Hill Town route and modes of transportation for a mid-September visit.
My husband and I want to explore a few towns on our way from Ronda to Seville. It looks like we could pass through a string of lovely towns (Grazalema, El Bosque, Arcos) if we combine walking and bus rides (and maybe a taxi or two) between Ronda and Jerez de la Frontera. We would then take the train to Seville.
I understand that there are a few walking tours, but we'd prefer to travel independently. We would have perhaps 4 or 5 days for this leg of our trip, so we don't expect to spend a night in every town along the way; we're just interested in a bit of exploration and some good walking. Any suggestions or ideas? Good routes? Bus schedules?
Thanks for your help!
My husband and I want to explore a few towns on our way from Ronda to Seville. It looks like we could pass through a string of lovely towns (Grazalema, El Bosque, Arcos) if we combine walking and bus rides (and maybe a taxi or two) between Ronda and Jerez de la Frontera. We would then take the train to Seville.
I understand that there are a few walking tours, but we'd prefer to travel independently. We would have perhaps 4 or 5 days for this leg of our trip, so we don't expect to spend a night in every town along the way; we're just interested in a bit of exploration and some good walking. Any suggestions or ideas? Good routes? Bus schedules?
Thanks for your help!
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Well - I don't know how far you plan on walking versus bus - but from Ronda to Jerez is more than 70 miles, much of it very rough and mountainous terrain. I would think you should take a bus from town to town and perhaps do short hikes from each one - unless you're in training to be commandos.
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I agree with nytraveller. What's more, the towns are usually on top of hills. I think you can trek Grazalema-Zahara-Algodonales, and Villamartin-Bornos. Around El Bosque is very picturesque as well.
Once in Ronda, get a good bus time-table, they make many stops along the way.
Once in Ronda, get a good bus time-table, they make many stops along the way.
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I'd very strongly recommend you NOT try to do this by yourselves.
First for basic safety reasons: Routemarking on many of these footpaths is awful, and paths aren't always that well defined anyway: the year before last, we actually needed machetes for our guide to clear a walkable route at several points.
Getting lost is VERY easy, and temperatures can change extraordinarily quickly: we went from Andalucian spring to sleet so cold several of us went blue in a few hundred feet rise and an hour's walk in May last year.
Second for practicality. Walking the 70 miles involves a lot of really tedious stuff. Public transport is generally useless in the smaller towns. Getting a decent organiser to collect you at pretty place A, take you to a remote walk start, collect you and then take you to pretty place B means you spent your time walking the hills, and not slogging across new road construction sites.
We found www.adventurebug.com terrific on walk organisation (and there's loads of similar small-scale operator by googling 'Grazelma walk'). Its choice of hotels was about OK, though we found them no worse than those we organised ourselves. Standards of innkeeping in the white towns are closer to those of the Cotswolds than to Tuscany.
First for basic safety reasons: Routemarking on many of these footpaths is awful, and paths aren't always that well defined anyway: the year before last, we actually needed machetes for our guide to clear a walkable route at several points.
Getting lost is VERY easy, and temperatures can change extraordinarily quickly: we went from Andalucian spring to sleet so cold several of us went blue in a few hundred feet rise and an hour's walk in May last year.
Second for practicality. Walking the 70 miles involves a lot of really tedious stuff. Public transport is generally useless in the smaller towns. Getting a decent organiser to collect you at pretty place A, take you to a remote walk start, collect you and then take you to pretty place B means you spent your time walking the hills, and not slogging across new road construction sites.
We found www.adventurebug.com terrific on walk organisation (and there's loads of similar small-scale operator by googling 'Grazelma walk'). Its choice of hotels was about OK, though we found them no worse than those we organised ourselves. Standards of innkeeping in the white towns are closer to those of the Cotswolds than to Tuscany.
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