Ronda

From Guehar-Sierra we travelled west to find Ronda in the lovely Sierra de las Nieves Natural Park. The campsite "El Sur" is well managed and comfortable with good facilities (but no bar in the winter) and very popular with Spanish families as well as Northern European travellers. It is only just over 1k walk into the old part of the town.

Ronda is an historic town spectactularly sited at about 800m on the top of a huge gorge with steep sandstone cliffs on almost every side.










An amazing 18th century bridge - the Puente Nueve - spans the gorge and links the old town (roots date back to the Stone Age) and the new town.



These pictures are of the old town





We visited the well preserved Arab Baths in the old town........



...........and the dilapidated but fascinating Casa del Rey Moro (Moor King)



where a vertical tunnel with steps and occasional rooms had been carved out of the solid rock cliffs leading down to the river nearly 70 metres below


We stayed at Ronda for over a week and could have stayed longer - there was so much to see and you could walk to so many different interesting places from the campsite. The walks from the town are well documented and also quite well signed! We have moved south to Tarifa for warmer weather and to go to Morocco.