Landscapes of the Costa Blanca

Pocket-sized full-colour guide describing car tours, walks and countryside picnics. Large-scale topographical walking maps (scale 1:50,000), fold-out touring map. Timetables for local transport. Unique free on-line update service with specific route change information. Series (50 destinations) dubbed 'the blue Bibles' by the Sunday Times.

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5 car tours, 50 long and short walks, 32 picnic suggestionsThe car tours and walks in this book are divided between six areas: the coastal strip from Denia to Benidorm, the Serpis and Gallinera valleys, the Laguart and Jalon valleys, the Guadalest, Algar and Sella valleys, the Alcoi area, and the sierras of Carrasqueta and Maigmo.The car tours lead through fertile valleys smothered in blossom or sweet-scented fruit to delightful inland villages. Windmills, waterfalls and 'snow wells' feature among the picnic settings. But the rugged silhouettes of the area's many sierras dominate the landscape -an irresistable attraction for walkers.The Costa Blanca is ideal for countryside exploration all year round. Travel only a short distance inland, and you will find yourself surrounded by market gardens, orchards and orange groves, while the dark rugged silhouettes of the sierras beckon you close. Wild flowers, including exotic orchids, abound, and the air is filled with the scent of fragrant herbs; birdsong drifts along on the breeze,