CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From El Campello it runs 305 km to El Campello; allow about 5 h 56 of riding. On the way it passes Barranc dels Garrofers, Abric del Garrofero and back through Barranc dels Garrofers. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Behind the Costa Blanca's hotel towers there is a quite different country, dry, stony and mostly empty, and the Arroyo de Martín Pérez belongs to it. An arroyo is a gully that stays dry for most of the year, and here, on the hills inland from El Campello and San Juan de Alicante, it carries the water away when the rains arrive. Those rains, when they come, come hard. Autumn storms on this coast can drop a month's water in a few hours, and the gullies fill suddenly, so check the forecast before you go poking about dry beds.
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Arroyo de martín Pérez is where the day begins. Next is Barranc dels Garrofers.
Between the towns of Alcoy and Gandia, the mountains of the northern Alicante province fold into a tangle of narrow valleys, and the barranc, the ravine, of the carob trees is a dry gully among them, a few kilometres from the villages of Planes and Beniarrés. The carob, or garrofer in Valencian, is a dark, leathery tree that has grown here for centuries, and its long brown pods were once used as animal feed and sweeteners. The land is rugged limestone, laced with terraces now mostly abandoned and covered in pines and rosemary.
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Barranc dels Garrofers comes up 65 km in. Next is Abric del Garrofero.
Bicorp is a small village in the Canal de Navarrés, a valley in the interior of Valencia province walled in by rugged mountains and deep ravines. The surrounding Macizo del Caroig is one of the largest wild areas in the Valencian Community, a vast tableland of pine, scrub and gorges cut by the Júcar's tributaries. The Abric del Garrofero, the shelter of the carob tree, lies in the hills near Bicorp, Quesa and Navarrés.
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131 km in you reach Abric del Garrofero. Next is back through Barranc dels Garrofers.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc dels Garrofers write-up.
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back through Barranc dels Garrofers, late in the day. Next is Arroyo de martín Pérez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Arroyo de martín Pérez write-up.
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Back at Arroyo de martín Pérez. That is the ride.
Arroyo de martín Pérez → Barranc dels Garrofers is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc dels Garrofers → Abric del Garrofero is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric del Garrofero → back through Barranc dels Garrofers is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Barranc dels Garrofers → Arroyo de martín Pérez is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.