The area is without doubt a mountain biker's paradise, offering all types of trails including technical single track, long climbs on jeep tracks, forestry tracks up to 2000m, or testing rides up to the Pico Veleta Pass at 3400m. ...
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The area is without doubt a mountain biker's paradise, offering all types of trails including technical single track, long climbs on jeep tracks, forestry tracks up to 2000m, or testing rides up to the Pico Veleta Pass at 3400m.
Las Alpujarras is Spain's southernmost range of mountains and includes Europe's longest downhill. Dominated by the Sierra Nevada mountain range with it's highest peaks Pico Veleta and Mulhacen reaching over 3400 metres above sea level, Las Alpujarras is part of the Sierra Nevada National Park and one of the UNESCO biosphere reserves. The mountain range has been compared to the Himalayas, and offers some of the most stunning landscapes in Europe.
Our cortijo (traditional Spanish farmhouse) is besides the Rio Chico and is set in 2 acres of olive, orange, lemon and fig trees, has a swimming pool, and is within walking distance of Orgiva.
Orgiva is a fascinating market town (population 6000) and is known as the capital of the Alpujarras. There are various bars serving good and reasonable priced meals. There are also many shops, including petrol stations, post office, Internet Cafe, banks (cash machine), and the lively market on Thursdays.
The trails are unpopulated and it is unusual for us to meet any walkers or mountain bikers on our rides. The characteristic feel is of a tranquil region with villages that time has passed by. The biking area extends from Orgiva (at 400 metres altitude) up to Pico Veleta at 3400 metres, from banana plantations, orange and lemon groves, olive groves, oak , pine forests to alpine type pasture and snow capped Sierra Nevada, an incredible diversity. There is an abundance of wild life, including deer, wild boar, vultures, buzzards and eagles. This area provides a magnificent backdrop for a varied an exciting week of biking.
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center based - farmhouse (orange trees, olive, etc)
7-days (might be able to book guide by the day)
real mtn biking
can fly into granada
varied scenery - mediterrean to himalayan like
Orgiva - town is 6000 people
region with "villages that time has passed by"
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