Overnight, a pile of broken bamboo washed up on the beach
Andalusia 2025
Day 5: March 18
Nerja - Villanueva de la Concepción - Torcal de Antequera
Andalusia 2025
Itinerary
After breakfast, while it was sunny, we went for a little more walk along the sea.
The sunshine didn’t last long. When the rain started, we drove on to the town of Villanueva de la Concepción, located in the mountains above Málaga.
Along the way, we stop to take photos of olive trees; all the hillsides are planted with them.
Olive trees on the slopes of the Andalusian mountains
Our rental Citroën car
Road through the mountains in Andalusia
Today we are staying in a very nice apartment, on the main square of the town of Villanueva de la Concepción.
The large brown windows in the center are ours
Living room and kitchen
Bedroom
View from the window onto the square
In the evening, we went to Torcal de Antequera (Wikipedia) - there are very beautiful karst rocks there.
Once, this was the bottom of a shallow sea. And then, as a result of the collision of the Eurasian and African tectonic plates, these mountains appeared.
Over millions of years, under the influence of wind and rain, they acquired these incredible forms that we see now.
It seems to me I’ve never seen anything like this before: rocks made up of “stone” pancakes, as if they were stacked one on top of another.
We walked around Torcal de Antequera for just an hour. And then it started raining again and we had to turn back.
We were also lucky enough to encounter a herd of Pyrenean ibex.
Serzhyk runs after the goats
Pyrenean ibex
For dinner, we bought salmorejo soup at the supermarket. Serzhyk heated it up. I don’t know what the Spaniards would say, but I found the warm salmorejo from the supermarket tastier than the one we tried in the restaurant.
This is what the soup packet looks like
Our dinner