Walking in Andalucia

A guidebook to 36 walks in the natural and national parks of Spain’s Andalucía region. Graded by difficulty from easy strolls to strenuous mountain hikes, there are routes to suit both beginner and more experienced walkers alike.

Walks range from 4 to 21km (2-13 miles) and can be enjoyed in 2-7 hours. They are split between six diverse areas based on the six parks: Aracena, Grazalema, Los Alcornocales, La Axarquía (the coastal plain around Nerja, just south of the Almijara), Las Alpujarras (in the Sierra Nevada) and Cazorla.

• Clear route description illustrated with 1:50,000 mapping
• GPX files available for download
• Information on bases and facilities
• Local points of interest
• Sized to easily fit in a jacket pocket

Guy Hunter-Watts has lived and worked in Andalucía since the 1980s. After studying at the universities of Santiago and Salamanca he taught English in South America before moving to the Ronda mountains where he has been leading guided walks for almost 25 years. His work as a walking guide and freelance journalist has taken him to many corners of the planet including India, Namibia, Tanzania, Latin America and Mongolia.

Guy’s latest adventures include sailing a yacht from Turkey to the Maldives, tracking leopard through the Jawai hills in Rajasthan, shipping a vintage Airstream caravan from the USA to a remote mountainside in the Grazalema mountains and regularly falling off a battered Enfield motorbike on the tracks leading up to his farm.