View from El Mirabo - 700m
Today we went walking in the mountains near Benichembla at the top end of the Jalon valley. The instructions for the walk were not very clear and we missed a turning within the first 5 mins.
Having re-traced our steps, we were then chased by a dog guarding an old cattle shed and Celia was nipped on the leg. We then took another wrong path and after a further 15 mins. decided to give up (we noticed later that the walk was compiled in 1995 and it did say some of the landmarks may have changed!)
As we didn’t fancy going back past the fierce dog, we cut through some orchards where we came across evidence of a lot of recent wild boar activity – it would just have been our luck to be attacked by one of them as well! We eventually found our way back to Benichembla and retired to a bar for a well-earned beer.
El Tossalet viewed from far side of Valle de Almadich
Determined not to waste the day completely, we drove up into what we dubbed some time ago our ’secret valley’ and traced the far end of the walk. After a picnic lunch at 500m, we climbed to a ridge where Celia stopped to rest, whilst Vernon scaled the peak we had been aiming for, El Mirabo (700m). The view from the top was breathtaking, well worth the climb, and he could see right down to the coast and, if the weather had been clear enough, out to Ibiza. Close to where we had parked the car was a ruined finca dating back to Moorish times and on the way back down the mountain, a weasel ran across the road in front of us.
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