CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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341 km from Beniatjar to Beniatjar, about 4 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I, Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi and back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Otos is a tiny village in the Vall d'Albaida, in the south of Valencia province, and it has an unusual claim to fame: its walls are decorated with dozens of sundials, designed by artists and scattered through the streets, making the village a kind of open-air museum of time. Nearby, in the hills around Otos, Bèlgida and Ráfol de Salem, prehistoric people left paintings in rock shelters, and the Coveta del Mig is one of the sites included in the World Heritage site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The art here includes schematic figures, simplified human and animal forms, and the area is part of a rich zone of rock art that extends into the mountains of the Alicante province to the south.
Read the complete Coveta del mig- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Coveta del mig- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I.
The Marina Alta is the northern Costa Blanca at its most mixed: villas on every slope, a ribbon of coast running from Moraira to Jávea, and just behind it, farm terraces, dry stone walls and small rock shelters where prehistoric people left their mark. The Cova de la Catxupa, near Teulada and Benitachell, is one of them, a shelter in the hills a few kilometres from the sea, listed with the other Mediterranean rock art of the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I write-up.
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Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi.
The Carabassí is one of the last stretches of wild-ish coast between Alicante and Santa Pola: a line of dunes held together by pine and marram grass, a long beach, and the sea glittering under the flight path of Alicante airport. In the low rocky ground behind it lies a small cave known for painted marks, the Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassí, close to the village of El Altet and a short hop from Santa Pola.
Read the complete Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi write-up.
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about 170 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi. Next is back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Coveta del mig- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coveta del mig- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Coveta del mig- Abric I. That is the ride.
Coveta del mig- Abric I → Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I → Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi → back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I → Coveta del mig- Abric I is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.