Hiking La Yecla Gorge

We were woken up at 7:45am by a 2 minute blast from the bells. Then at 8am they sounded again. There is definitely no lay ins in this town.
It had been a very cold night,into the minus numbers and I spent the first half of the morning sorting out the squeaky brakes on my bike.
Just after 11am we left Wanda and started our hike down through the town and out the other side and into the wilderness following the path of the Yecla stream.
After 3.5km we came to a metal walkway that was built over the stream and we started climbing.
Before long we were into a gorge and well above the stream that was now a river that had carved beautiful water filled potholes into the canyon below and we were walking on a narrow walkway climbing up all the way.
The walkway followed the entire canyon for the 2km and when we came out the other side we were surrounded by hundreds of Vultures circling above us, it was an incredible sight.
We stood there for around 15 minutes watching them before making the journey back the way we had come.
By the time we got back to Wanda we had walked 10km, that’s 6 miles, and it had taken us 2.5 hours and the time was now 1:30pm.
It was a beautiful day and we sat in Wanda with the door and Windows open chilling until around 5pm and as the sun started setting the temperature dropped fast. By 7pm it was just 6°c.Read more