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Albacete guided walking tours - Moorish castles on the old military frontier between Andalusia and La Mancha
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Basic data
| grade | strenuous |
| base | Albacete |
| location tags | Andalucía, Andalusia, Calar del Mundo, Góntar, Nerpio, Riópar, Sierra de Albacete, Sierra de Segura, Yeste, |
| theme tags | Moorish, Quixote, bullfighting, ecclesiastical, gypsy, military, |
| default length of this multi-day walk | 6 days |
| average daily walking distance | 20 km / 12.43 miles |
| average daily walking time, excluding breaks | 5 hr |
| fiestas and markets on the way |
Note that there are also events in most places on January 6 (Three Kings), Carnival, Easter, April 23 (St George), June 23 (St John), and September 11 (Catalan regional/national day) |
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Description of the walk
Long-distance walking in high karst between deserted Moorish castles and occupied or abandoned cortijos and settlements. Accommodation and meals in village bars (excellent goat and lamb, good cheap wine). Get to know shepherds, farmers, grandmas, (prehistoric) hunters, stoned Moors, gypsies etc and check out and enter their accommodation. Lots of wildlife, and some pretty wild life. Village bullfights in season. For those of you who know about such things, think Afghanistan-Lite. 5-8 days. Prettiest in the autumn and the spring, most exciting during the fiestas in August (but bear in mind the intense heat).
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Weather forecast Albacete
- Fri: Max Temp: 35°C (95°F), Min Temp: 22°C (72°F), Wind Direction: NE, Wind Speed: 3mph, Visibility: very good, Pressure: 1012mb, Humidity: 26%, Sunrise: 07:13CEST, Sunset: 21:31CEST
- Sat: Max Temp: 37°C (99°F), Min Temp: 20°C (68°F), Wind Direction: SW, Wind Speed: 3mph, Visibility: very good, Pressure: 1012mb, Humidity: 27%, Sunrise: 07:14CEST, Sunset: 21:30CEST
- Sun: Max Temp: 37°C (99°F), Min Temp: 19°C (66°F), Wind Direction: W, Wind Speed: 2mph, Visibility: very good, Pressure: 1014mb, Humidity: 23%, Sunrise: 07:15CEST, Sunset: 21:29CEST
Useless Albacete info
[...] More photos here. Seen on this walk. [...]
[...] Nerpio is a truly astonishing place, something of a contemporary Las Hurdes, particularly on a Saturday night. (Seen on this walk.) [...]
[...] cycled south from Albacete via Yeste twice. On both occasions it would have been really nice to have had a direct road or track from [...]
[...] Albacete at the moment, taking several days off before heading south tomorrow via Yeste. Some [...]
[...] Anuncio: Walking tours on Andalusia’s northern borders. [...]
[...] (Pic: Wikimedia Commons. More nominally Muslim fortresses here.) [...]