Playa Carvajal to Playa Chaparral

Our final walk for this trip started where we left off yesterday on the GR 92 along the Paseo Marítimo, close to the beach, with the Mediterranean on one side and shops and restaurants on the other. (The most frequent combination today: Indian/Italian/Tex-Mex.) Plenty of sunshine for Ned to enjoy his shorts! The surprise of the day was seeing one of the famous Osborne bull steel silhouettes appear on a hillside above the endless stream of apartment houses and hotels. We didn’t know there were any in this area.

The city of Fuengirola provides many amenities along this stretch: art installations, beach showers, WC‘s, lifeguards, exercise stations, and more. So we were taken by surprise when we crossed the bridge over the Rio Fuengirola, and the nature of the route changed completely. We were suddenly on a cliff above the water, directly beside the A-7 four- lane divided highway with cars, trucks, and buses thundering by at high speeds and only a guardrail between us and the fast-moving traffic. The views of the Mediterranean were still there, but we did not find this section pleasant because of the constant traffic noise. We were very glad when a bus showed up to take us back to our apartment!

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