Axarquia, Andalucia an ideal base for your holiday
One of the reasons Axarquia makes the ideal base for a walking or sightseeing holiday is the weather. Just 10kms inland from the Costa del Sol the weather is great for walking all year, except in the hot summer months.
The glorious blue skies enhance the beauty of the magnificent mountains and the Mediterranean. The Natural Parks of the Sierras Almijara and Tejada provide a hidden area little known by most tourists because they are so close to the famous Costa del Sol and allow us to offer a very different type of holiday to the boring sun and sea holiday.
The old mule trails provide excellent good quality tracks for walking, particularly for those walkers who wish to enjoy the beautiful scenery, rather than scramble up a mountain-side.
The white villages which pepper the lower slopes are also very attractive and on the non walking day guests are often thrilled to visit the wonderful Alhambra Palace in Granada. The weather is also obviously an attraction for our sightseeing holidays as well as the fact that there are so many 'sights' such as Granada, Cordoba and Ronda within a relatively easy drive.
Natural Park Sierra de Tejeda and Almijara
Designated a natural park in 1999, this large and rugged mountainous region of 40,663ha stretches across the provincial border of Granada and Malaga. Its western part in Malaga province is known as the Axarquía and is famous for its attractive villages dating from Moorish times. It is also superb hiking country and its numerous steep mountainsides make it ideal for climbers. Its highest peak is La Maroma, at 2,080m.
Geologically, the area is has some distinctive features. It is rich in quartzite and gneiss, which date from over 300 million years ago. The Sierra Almijara has one of Spains's most important areas of dolomitic marble, which gives the landscape its characteristic grey and white hues where erosion has broken down the marble into small stones. The main rock in the Sierra Tejeda is limestone, which has been severely weathered leaving a lanscape riddled with steep-sided ravines and plunging cliff faces.
There are many caves, the most famous being those at Nerja. Others are near the sierras' highest peak, at La Sima de la Maroma, and close to the village of Canillas de Aceituno. Its abundance of caves make speleology a popular activity here.
Its relative remote nature has meant that it has a high number of endemic species of flora and is rich in wildlife, particularly raptors and mountain birds.
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