Haria and The Mirador Del Risco De Famara walking and hiking route
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Walk Instructions
An excellent circuit linking the village of Haria
with a superb viewpoint, combining a dirt road
with good tracks. The total ascent is not great
and is at easy gradients. Haria is a big village,
more attractive than most, well provided with
restaurants/bars. The Mirador del Risco de Famara,
set high in a notch of the immense Famara cliffs,
overlooks Famara, with its long sandy beach,
and a great length of the adjacent coast.
1) At the end of the square turn left then immediatly
right with the “Ayuntamiento” on your left” past a hair
dresser on right after the monument. In about 150m,
at a crossroads, go straight ahead, uphill, along ‘Calle
Rincan de Aganada’. Continue along the roadside,
you will soon leave the built-up area and pass a ruined
house as the road loses its hard surface. Follow this dirt
road for 150m ignoring first lesser road.
2) As the dirt road bears left, go straight ahead
along a lesser roadway, still rising gently through an
area where walls and terraces are evidence of quite
intensive former cultivation.
3) Reach the viewpoint at the mirador, where a series
of stone walls give shelter from the wind. The extensive
views include Famara and its coast, the mighty cliffs
of Puuta Ganada (588m - 1930ft) to the right. After
the viewpoint, continue along the roadway as it bends
to the left, rising gently below the slopes of Montana
Ganada. Haria nestles below and mighty flat-topped
Montana Corona (611m - 2005ft) is also in view. Pass
above a large goat farm and through an area of prickly
pears, still rising gently above the Haria valley, with the
main road now in view across the valley.
4) Look out for a comparatively minor track on the left,
just after a bend in the road turning sharply downhill,
probably an old donkey trail, with some paving evident.
Join a wider track, turning left along the valley bottom,
heading straight for Haria at any junction. Reach the
built-up area, pass between the football stadium and
a school and go straight ahead at any junction. Rejoin
the outward route at the crossroads by the end of Calle
Rincon de Aganada.
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Disclaimer: This route was correct at time of writing. However, alterations can happen if development or boundary changes occur, and there is no guarantee of permanent access. These walks have been published for use by site visitors on the understanding that neither HPB Management Limited nor any other person connected with Holiday Property Bond is responsible for the safety or wellbeing of those following the routes as described. It is walkers' own responsibility to be adequately prepared and equipped for the level of walk and the weather conditions and to assess the safety and accessibility of the walk.
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