Sierra de las Nieves. Los Sauces
ROUTE: MALAGA- 13
LOCATION: Sierra de las Nieves. Los Sauces- El Palancar country
house- Peñón de Ronda- Los Sauces.
TIME: Three hours.
DESCRIPTION
The route provides a pleasant walking tour
through Los Sauces camp area where there is a grove of firs.
After leaving Los Sauces through the Cañada de la Encina
walking on along a soft slope towards a brook, we shall be climbing
through a gorge along a very winding track.
Initially, this track makes it way southwards and then turns abruptly
round the cliff, crossing what used to be an extensive grove of
firs wich was destroyed by a fire.
Then the track goes up until reaching a very picturesque farm
house by a hill with a splendid orchad of cherry trees.
Once at the hill, we shall prepare the climb to the Peñón
de Ronda, 1297 m. high, situated on our right. From the top, there
is a splendid perspective of the Torrecilla (see route MA-10).
Walking down along the same track, we shall arrive at the Peñón
country house, still inhabited, in a bucolic place at the foot
of the rock.
From here we shall walk on westwards in the opposite direction
we had initially taken, on the other side of the rock, in order
to take a track with makes its way along the hillside of the rock
and soon reaches the Palancar country house, from alon a lane
until reaching a cross roads wich we shall take to the right.