Haria and The Mirador Del Risco De Famara walking and hiking route

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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