Summer has come and as it was expected lack of rain and increase of average temperature. Still this is a privileged area and if you get to know it well you will get the best from it. Just yesterday I adventured myself to discover the birth of the Ardila river, and I did find it. [...]
Just half and hour from Sierra Morena Mountain Refuge we can enjoy the most famous among livestock fairs. From the first October to the seventh October every year since 1380 we celebrate this international livestock fair. when King Juan I allowed a weekly market, since then it grew bigger and bigger. Today it still is [...]
The refuge has become a learning, a vital experience. Wind, bringing and carrying things away, and also the ideas. Water, blood and origing of life. Wood, that is the shell, the skin that protects us. Earth, upon which we gravitate. Fire, power to transform, heat for the rest. May 2.010
Sierra Morena mountain refuge has finally opened the second week of Sepetember. We had the first visitors. It was a very nice couple from Manchester. From the first minute they enjoyed the tranquility of the place, the food, the music, and the walking. They also helped us harvesting tomato, pumpkin, marrow from the garden, they [...]
Survival, Navigation and Adventure courses with a difference……we really do try to get you lost! Based in southern Spain in mountains and forests. Any start date, any duration. No minimum numbers. Singles and groups welcome. Childrens introduction to Navigation and Geocaching Corporate Leadership and Team Building training. Professional instruction and guiding. These courses are intended [...]
Report from Ian Williams who visited the Sierra Mountain Refuge in July. With numbers definitely down this year on our local patch around the village of Lanjaron, Bee-eaters were a “must-see” for our field-trip to Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche. Kiersten was sure she had located a possible nest-site here last year, and [...]
This report was from Ian Williams who stayed here in July 2011. The hills of Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche have been my temporary home for a couple of days now, and the patchwork of mixed oak woodland and sunny, open meadows have brought some great birdwatching. Today we’ll take a look at [...]
This report has been sent in by Kiersten Rowland of Birdwatch Alpujarras who spent a few days here at the refuge enjoying the wonderful birdlife in the vicinity. I’ve been looking forward to this for some time. Birdwatchalpujarras are heading west to explore Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche, a hilly, forested region in [...]
The GR 48 is the newest long trekking route in Spain. And guess what? It passes right by our mountain lodge in the Sierra Morena. In all it traverses along nearly 600 km, four provinces all in Andalucía (Huelva, Sevilla, Córdoba and Jaén), during 30 stages and across 6 natural protected areas: Parque Natural Sierra [...]
We recently had a visit from a journalist from the coast who works for an ex pat magazine here in southern Spain. I won’t mention the paper as I am loathe to give them any extra publicity. We dub this experience “the most primitive hotel in Spain”. So just why did they send out a [...]
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CONFUSING THOUGHTS about strength of Nature: buying a piece of land or ONE HOUR AWAY FROM HOME Today I was alive, isn´t it important?. I enjoyed a very pleasant day. I was there and you weren´t. I can easily explain you what I saw but I could barely introduce you to what I felt. I [...]
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