Molina de Aragon - Orihuela

Today was a big driving day, 330 miles from Molina De Aragon with the first stretch following the route of La Vuelta through the winding country roads and passing the ruins de civica.
These are amazing ruins, and not as old as one might think. Infact they were built by the priest and a band of locals during the 1960’s and it is a maze of secret tunnels and rooms, but now it is falling into disrepair and is closed off. However, for the braver adventurer and those that don’t mind breaking the law there is a way in through a barred window and that’s where I went.
Inside is just as amazing as outside with arched doorways carved out of the rock, shelves and pillars carved into the rock and tunnels going deep underground, however there are also pits that seemed to be bottomless even though I shone the torch down so even I wasn’t brave enough to do the tunnels.
From there it was just a day of driving, when it got to 150 miles to go Russ was seriously flagging but we pushed on and after searching on park4night we found a little campsite for €9 and headed for that in a village called orihuella.
We reached camp at 5:30pm after leaving Molina de Aragon at 7:30am. We were both tired but our Dutch host, Hans, greeted us and he was super friendly. He told us where we could get water, and showed us the showers. A shower was seriously needed after a day on the road. Then, surrounded by orange,grapefruit and lemon trees we settled in for the night listening to the owls.Read more