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We didn’t get much sleep as expected. The local kids seem to think it’s hilarious to come into the car parks and play really loud music from there car stereos and honk the horns. It’s really sad that just a couple of car loads can’t find anything better to do when there is so much on offer. All of the sports facilities are open until really late including swimming, football and tennis. It’s not as if there’s nothing else to do.
By 1:30am the kids had gone and the moron vanlifers had finally settled in for the night after turning up late and then having a chat outside for half an hour.
At 7:30am the noise started up again with cars turning up laden with people ready for another working day so that’s when we got up.
We couldn’t do much until 10am so we lounged around, had breakfast and plotted a route for later in the day and finally 10am came around and we headed for The Caves Of Saint Joseph.
We had already purchased online tickets and because of this we were first in the queue and at 10:30 they finally let us in and we were first into the boats.
The Caves are the longest flooded, navigable caves in Europe and there’s not alot of headroom once your moving in the boat. They were beautifully lit with overhead dim lighting and underwater lighting making it seem a very magical experience. Halfway through the tour we got out and walked through an unflooded section for about 10 minutes before arriving at another exit and getting back in the boat and returning the way we had come. It was a brilliant experience and well worth the €14 each to get in, although I was slightly gutted we couldn’t take photos.
The tour lasted around 45 mins and once we got back to Wanda we battoned down the hatches, filled up with fresh water and left the noisy car park for a quieter place to sleep.
Our first stop was in town at one of the Chinese supermarkets called SUPERWANG, which we thought was hilarious as we wanted some candles in jars for the evenings. From there we headed for the town of Navajas and a small little car park where there was a waterfall. Ellie found the waterfall on trip advisor but when we done the research the reviews were really bad with people saying the waterfall was dryed up, they couldn’t get park and there was just a dirty pool of mud at the site. We were going past anyway so I decided we may aswell just stop and have a look. It wouldn’t cost us anything except time.
Once parked, we headed down a small track on a very steep hill, past a ticket kiosk that was closed but tickets to view the waterfall should have been €2 each so as the ticket booth was closed we automatically assumed there would be no falls.
How wrong we were.
Le Salto de La Novia is one of the highest falls in Spain and the highest in the Castellon region and the story behind it is that many years ago brides to be would jump across a narrow part of the river and if they made it there marriage would be set in stone, but one day a bride to be jumped over a wider part of the river and fell in, her husband to be jumped in to save her but they were both swept downstream and over the falls to there deaths. This is why the waterfall runs white the colour of her wedding dress.
The falls were massive and even though they are so high there was huge amounts of falling water so you can actually get really close even though you do get a little wet.
There is also a split at the top of the falls creating a second water fall that is equally impressive but you can’t get very good photos but it was still amazing. It was well worth the stop. And it cost us nothing but time.
From Navajas it was a short 13 mile drive right out into the sticks at an abandoned railway station in the remote town of Masadas Blancas. The Via Verde Ojos Negros runs directly through here. It is the longest green cycleway in Spain covering a total of 267km and tomorrow I’m going to cycle a large portion of it.
It was now 4pm, we decided we would go for a short walk after our early dinner and trekked 3 miles down the greenway. We passed through tunnels, over a viaduct and by lots of woods where we saw deer. As the sun set we turned around and headed for Wanda. It looked like we were going to have a quiet night at last and it would definitely be very dark. There’s nothing around for miles.Okumaya devam et