BARDENAS TRIPS ON FOOT
  Trips on foot, diverse itineraries:
    Preserve of Eguaras - Tip of the Estroza.

 

TRIP ON FOOT.

Any place of those described in the bike routes, you he/she can use to walk and to consent to the places so singular as The Bocal, the rafts of Four Cabins, The Falls of the Quarter note, Castill of Earth, Pisquerra, The Rallón, the Big Ravine, the Step of the Deer, The Preserve of Eguaras,... etc. approaches one in car and a walk is gone for by the place elect.

Next a walk is described on foot by an itinerary of the Bardenas.

PRESERVE DE EGUARAS. TIP OF THE ESTROZA

Leaving the fortified Castle of Peñaflor (XII century), in the natural reservation of the Preserve of Eguaras, one of the scarce places still tree-lined of the Bardenas, the itinerary consists on arriving and then to go up the one Big ravine. The turn is made by the border of the plateau of the Estroza. It is a good occasion to discover and to cross an area particularly desértica and arid (soon after of the corral of Gayarre): a bad-land. To facilitate the one itinerary to be provided of the cartographic maps of the area, of the I exercise, it climbs 1:50.000.

Pictures of the Bardenas. Cliquear on the image to see them enlarged:

Access by lorry

We leave Cabanillas in address to Arguedas, we pass the town and in the first round to catch the highway that consents to the park of the nature Alive" "Path. When sighting the hermitage of the Virgin of the Yoke, us we direct for the road toward her, we visit her and from the surroundings we sight with the binoculars the characteristic formations of the Bardena Blanca: Castill of Earth,.... We continue for the one on the way to the left that it lowers and that it will take us to the Bardena Blanca. The road first low and then it ascends until the Wicket of the I Thrash (7,3 km). It continues lowering and you arrives to the wide plain of Landazuria (several parallel hints). A crossing (9 km from final of Arguedas). To turn to the right and to follow the rubble hint (not to catch to the right an earth hint that begins to a hundred of meters of the crossing). The hint goes by means of the fields of cereals and soon it happens (12,7 km) before of the corral of the Chopo. Soon after (13'2 km) there is a first crossing: to catch the highway of the right and to continue lowering. In the low part of the slope you he/she finds a second crossing (13'6 km): to turn to the left. 800 m later on (14'4 km), you arrives to a crossing. To catch the hint of the right that lowers smoothly. It is reached this way the foot of the Castle of Peñaflor (15'4 km).

Itinerary

Of the Castle of Peñallor, to go toward the South-this to a small one fence enarbolado in which is escavado a small canyon. To walk along this last one and to lower as soon as it is possible, that is to say 800 m more or less after their birth. To walk for the canyon and to leave to the left bank to the height of a corral. To take the address This following the border of a field. We find a hint, not far from a crossing of roads. To arrive until there. To rotate to the left and to follow the hint until the height of the corral of Gayarre, lightly underhanded behind an earthy hill. Of here, to follow a hint that goes toward the This. Three hundred meters later on to leave it and to go toward one impressive area desértica (bad-land) very in ravine. An incredible labyrinth of earth cracks it forms a small ravine of earth walls at once. This course of water is continued I dry off down (to point out the wealth in the ways of the relief, sculpted by the waters: torrecillos, domes. small needles, bends, "high and low reliefs", organ tubes, grottos,...). Soon we find a small canyon (to the left). To continue down: you arrives then to the Big Ravine near a well of residual water. Starting from here, the itinerary is simple: it consists on going up the canyon during near 3 km. For everything is impressive earth arches.

To the height of a trifurcación of the ravine, to enter in the one canyon of the means. Very quick, he/she spends to the height of big flagstones that you/they crown a raft. To surround them for the right. Then the canyon gets wider a little. To leave the ravine ascending for their bank right orográfica. Of the superior border of the earth throat, leave to the West-south-west the Tip of the Estroza, next stage of the circuit. To go toward this summit for the bank of those fields. To overcome a very pending road through the heath. You ends then in the superior plateau, area of cultivated fields. Of the Tip of the Estroza is sighted a splendid panorama.

To go for the South border of the plateau being always attentive to the rocky wall near which one walks (2 km more or less).

Soon the cavalier silhouette of the Castle of Peñaflor is perceived. Soon after, to lower for a not very sheer and stony slope until a hint, to cross it, then to continue in direcci6n South-west skirting up one small rocky wall. As soon as it can spend, to lower through the pines, then to return to the starting point of the itinerary through the plain inferior.

Time: Of 5 at 6 hours.