CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 308 km round trip from Mazarrón - roughly 5 h 41 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cueva de la Plata, L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor and back through Cueva de la Plata. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Mazarrón has always been about what lies under the ground. Roman miners dug silver and lead from these dry hills, and later generations extracted alum and ochre, and the coast near the town still shows the scars and the rust-coloured earth of that trade. Two Phoenician ships from about the seventh century BC were found wrecked on the nearby shore, an astonishing find for archaeologists. The Cueva de la Higuera lies inland from the coast in the arid hills of the Región de Murcia, and its name means the cave of the fig tree, a small mark of green in a very dry place.
Read the complete Cueva de la Higuera write-up.
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Cueva de la Higuera is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de la Plata.
Aledo is a tiny village on a rocky spur in the hills of Murcia, a place that punches well above its weight in history. In the eleventh century, it was a fortress on the frontier between Christian Castile and the Muslim taifa kingdoms, and the siege of Aledo in 1088 was a major episode in the struggle for the peninsula. A tower still stands above the village. The Cueva de la Plata, the silver cave, lies in the hills nearby, between Aledo, Totana and Alhama de Murcia.
Read the complete Cueva de la Plata write-up.
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Cueva de la Plata comes up 63 km in. Next is L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor, 63 km on.
In the mountains of northern Almería, near the village of Vélez-Blanco, the Cueva de los Letreros holds a small painted figure that has become the symbol of the province: the Indalo, a human figure holding an arc over its head, which locals paint on houses as a good luck charm. The rock shelters around Vélez-Blanco, including the one known as Tello I or Cama del Pastor, the shepherd's bed, are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Levantine scenes to schematic signs. The landscape is dry and rugged, with the limestone mass of the Sierra de María rising above.
Read the complete L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor write-up.
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126 km in you reach L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor. Next is back through Cueva de la Plata.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Plata write-up.
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back through Cueva de la Plata, late in the day. Next is Cueva de la Higuera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Higuera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de la Higuera. That is the ride.
Cueva de la Higuera → Cueva de la Plata is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Plata → L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor → back through Cueva de la Plata is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de la Plata → Cueva de la Higuera is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.