Part Example of how I Intinerise my Rambling Roger Walks
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All the walks in my Guide:
'Don’t leave Gran Canaria
without seeing it'
fit onto 4 sides of paper. The walk is titled, a brief
overview of the walk is given, including its grade and length,
also a map indicating the route.
My Guide also includes how to get to the start
of the walk and how to get home afterwards, including bus times
etc.
GPS co-ordinates are given for all major junctions
and points of interest, and the most important heights are also
included. The time of each stage and the cumulative time of the walk is
stated, as well as the conditions underfoot. Compass
directions are given as necessary, as are suggested picnic
stops, shops and restaurants.
Also included are the
cumulative totals for the complete walk at the end of the notes. |
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Walk 14 - The Santa Lucia Circle via Rosiana and Ansite |
Please find below typical
information you will find in my
Walking Guide including directions,
pictures and map (
PDF document shows the exact layout ):
Demo Walk - The Santa Lucia
Circle via Rosiana and Ansite
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The circular
route takes you out of the town past many small farms,
with fantastic views down the Tirajana valley, then
towards an interesting man made lake, La Sorreuda, and
to a pre Hispanic natural monument, Ansite, and then
back to Santa Lucia by a different route.
Sections 9 and 12 of the walk are often rather
overgrown, long trousers are recommended there. |
The start of the walk is the church plaza in Santa Lucia,
this can be reached by car, following the
GC 60 from San
Fernando to San Bartolome and then turning right on the GC 65 to
Santa Lucia, the drive takes just over an hour.
The start
can also be reached by the Global bus services 18 and 34.
No. 18 leaves at 08.00 and runs from Maspalomas to San Bartolome
arriving at 09.00, then the No. 34 from San Bartolome to Santa
Lucia, the 09.30 bus arrives in Santa Lucia at about 09.50.
Santa Lucia is approx 690 metres above sea level
GPS co-ordinates: 27.54.750 North 15.32.500 West
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1:- There are shops in Santa Lucia if you need supplies, also
if you arrived by bus the main bus stop is outside bar Guatiboa,
so you would need to walk back the way the bus travelled for
about 200 metres.
From the plaza beneath the church head
N.E. away from the main road, through a nice park, which does
have public toilets, then turn right onto Calle Leopoldo Matos
walking uphill for about 100 metres. You must then turn
left onto Calle Baldomero Argente, this is a super street with
many old houses some of which are tastefully restored, 3 minutes
later bear right at a Y junction, and in under 10 minutes you
find you are on Calle Taginaste.
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Santa Lucia Church
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Near the Aula de
Naturaleza
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At the junction opposite the road sign bear left up a few
steps onto a small plaza, continue uphill on a small road,
follow a wooden sign for El Palmeral del Valle, and a few metres
later turn right uphill N.E. at the wooden sign for La Aula de
Naturaleza.
3 minutes later turn left uphill North onto a
concrete road which will take you up to the Aula, 5 minutes
later ignore a footpath on your right signposted to Cruz de
Siglo.
The building you then come to is ‘La Aula de Naturaleza' also known as Las Tederas, this is like an outward
bound/education centre for local children, it has taken you
about 20 minutes from the Church Plaza.
Approx walking time 20
minutes, Altitude approx 800m
GPS co-ordinates:
27.54.830 North
15.32.020 West
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2:- Keep straight on past the Aula, heading North, until you
come to a large junction. There is a sign here for
Camino Rural a Las Vueltas de Adeje, there is a chain across the track ahead of you,
there are footpaths on both sides of the chain, your footpath
heads downhill to the left of the chain. Follow this
narrow footpath downhill through some fields to a dirt road,
where you must turn right uphill.
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The Oasis at Mundillo
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10 minutes after the
large junction, turn left in front of a nice house, head West on
a footpath, following the line of a small metal water tube.
3 minutes later you descend to El Mundillo on a super paved
steep downhill path ( GPS N 27.55.020 W 15.32.200 ), at a yellow
house with green garage doors, No. 7, bear right, follow this
track over a small barranco, bearing right N.W. up towards some
pink walls, as you walk under a natural canopy into a super
Oasis of palm trees, this is a great shady place for a picnic
stop, about 15 minutes from the Aula. |
Approx walking time 35 minutes, Altitude approx 770m
GPS co-ordinates: 27.55.050 North 15.32.220 West
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The
Cumulative totals for this walk are:
Approx walking time 5 hr 00 mins, Altitude approx 690m
GPS co-ordinates: 27.54.750 North 15.32.500 West
Approx length 18 Km, Ascent and Descent 600 metres
GPS Co-ordinates use WGS 84 as the Datum
Rambling
Roger Grade
6
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The above is an extract from a walk not included in this Guide
but shows the detail and local knowledge put into all of the
walks in my Guide
'Don’t leave Gran Canaria
without seeing it':
Don’t
leave Gran Canaria without seeing it
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