Just completed several days of hiking in the Valencian Regional Park. May is probably perfect hiking weather for coastal Spain, with warm weather and a steady breeze. We hiked mostly on the coastal path, the route is easy going, with one cliff to climb, El Volante.
At the top of the cliff is the ancient watchtower of Torre Badum, and beyond that we walked on to Pebret.
As summer approaches, the routes become hotter and drier, and we saw the Fire Marshal driving round, as well as the park wardens riding trail bikes several times a day. On the longest climb we kept being passed by endurance racers, running uphill, numbers on their hydration belts and desert hats on. Made me feel quite fat, old and unfit to watch them.
We stopped off at Pebret Beach, the sea was very refreshing!
The park is quite unspoiled, and very quiet to walk around. It's one of the few places of natural beauty in coastal Valencia, where the developers have not covered the hillside in concrete and built holiday homes. However the Regional Government plan to build 3000 homes here. If you want to visit, make it soon.
It's good that we completed our hikes, as the weather went very warm on the last day, so we did a bit of housework...and lay by our pool, while the temperature rose to the low 30's. Flew into the UK to be met by 13c and rain!
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