Independent walking holiday in Andalucia.

Self-led along the GR7 in the Alpujarra

If you prefer some guiding or a fixed centre holiday see Semi-guided holiday.

Holiday features

• Choose the start date and duration of your stay. 
• Stay in seleced small inns and hotels.
• Local advice & emergency support is in the background.
• Walk on to a new village each day or every other day. 
• Luggage transfers between hotels.
• Route notes provided. See a sample below.
• Annotated 1:25000 topographical maps provided.
• example Price, (2010) €399 per person, sharing, 7 nights B&B.

Options

• If you would like some reasurance on your self led walk you can Hire a GPS with your route ready to follow.
• stay more nights at some/all villages.
• Transfers are available from local airports. How to Arrive
• choose B&B, half or full board.
• Upgrade to higher rated accommodation where possible.
• have a guided day to get you orientated .

You could not do better than use this holiday along the GR7 as an introduction to Andalucia, the Alpujarras and self-led walking in general. Its a lovely route, we look after you well, and you have our unique maps! You Stay in small hotels and pensions as the route winds from village to village through a landscape of deep verdant valleys, mountain slopes, oak and chestnut forests and terraced farms tilled by mules. It is a magnificent landscape of wild flowers, ibex, golden orioles and bee-eaters, just waiting to be explored. More detail.

The Gr7 (E4). It is an ambitious long-distance, way marked footpath passing through all of Andalucia and Spain, then on to Greece. We can vouch for the Alpujarran stretch being very well chosen but even so we vary it to suit the season and the walker.

The terrain is mountainous, but the route, based on the old mule trails, is always reasonably graded.

Our GR7 walk ranges between Yégen and the poqueira valley. We think the best plan is to start in Yegen with a 2-night stay to aclimatise or recover from your journey. We provide circular walks based on Yegen and from there you could move on each day working west. You wont always be on the Gr7; we divert you according to season onto a more suitable or more interesting route.

Once in the Poqueira valley we recommend a 2-night stay to round off your holiday. Here we offer a variety of circular walks to suit all tastes and there is also a wealth of interest in the 3 clustered villages of the valley.

This plan shows the area at its best and gives time to enjoy it in a relaxed way.

Daily distances are between 10 and 16kms. We can provide longer alternatives if you prefer. There are various ways in which we can vary the plan to suit you, please just ask.

Our meticulous walk notes and maps are constantly updated and are a great help to the self led walker.
Step by step instructions keep you on track	Town and village plans make route finding easy
After crossing the water course the path bends left a bit to pass above a ruin filled with brambles. The path zigzags up.  It is mostly a cobbled path and heading generally west. At the top of the climb, it passes along side a mesh fence to join a tarmac road. Turn right along the road. Ignore a track to the left signed to GR142. Enter Lobras.
Historical and cultural, notes are included to add interest to the walk and give an excuse to stand and stare
The Barranco de Sangre derives its name from being the site of a bloody battle in 1570 during the Moorish rebellion against the relatively new Christian rulers of Granada (and Spain). So ruthless was the fighting that the valley ran with the blood of both factions, but since, as is well known, Islamic and Christian blood never mixes; the Christian blood flowed downhill and that of the Moors uphill. To this day not even water flows in the bco. for fear of mixing the blood. The inhabitants of Pitres are still honoured with the complimentary epithet, ‘barberos’.
rising from the Bco. de Sangre the track arrives at a 5-way junction. Take the branch, heading initially east, signed Capilerilla 400m later ignore a left branch. 100m. later at the junction, fork right.
All the practical information is included