Alquezar - Catwalks of the Vero River

We were up at 8:15am and after a couple of quick coffees we were ready to roll just after 9am.
Just outside the aire was fresh water where we filled up and tipped off our grey and then our next stop was 70 miles away in Huesca to do our last Spanish supermarket shop. In Lidl we brought all the Spanish sweets we could fit in Wandas cupboards, stocked up with Spanish sweet treats in the fridge and got enough food to do 4 days dinners.
Back in Wanda it was another 22 mile drive to the medieval town of Alquézar. High up in the mountains and perched on the side of a cliff I had seen this place on La Vuelta.
We arrived at 1pm and We were here to do the Gorge Walk also known as the catwalks.
We left Wanda and headed down into the town and the tourist information centre and paid €5 each and the lady at the counter gave us a map and sent us on our way.
As I mentioned, Alquezar is perched high up on the edge of a cliff with the Vero river running down below. Now we had to negotiate wet and slippery stone steps 100 meters down to the valley floor. Once down at water level it was a little muddy and still slippery until we reached the man made steps and metal narrow walkways they call the catwalks and then we were traversing the gorge hanging off the side of the mountain.
It was a beautiful walk. The river was the clearest we have ever seen because of the limestone, The catwalks took us over the river, around the mountainside and even when we were ascending we didn’t notice. The views were spectacular, with waterfalls, Bearded Vultures circling above us and the castle of Alquezar in the background. This was one of our favourite hikes of the trip.
Once we left the catwalks and the trail, back in town it was all uphill to Wanda our legs were burning. We had walked 6.5km and climbed 233 meters.
We got back to Wanda at 4pm and spent the rest of the afternoon watching the mist come back in to the valley below. We had been so lucky with the weather today.En savoir plus