Mountanious Landscape

Tajo Algarin and two horses bonding in the sunset

The landscape and nature here is amazingly beautiful and endlessly discoverable. Rocks, clay, flowers, trees, spiky bushes, thistles, small ecosystems, insects and wild boars! Yes! I saw wild boars one of the first days I was here! I was wandering around in the hilly area, to find some of the 80-100 horses that are here. I found them, but far away from the volunteer house “El Nido” (The Nest/Reden). Suddenly the horses look up. I look in their direction and I see two big, big black wild boars and a bunch of “piglets”. Oh my quack, I am telling you, my heart was almost falling out through my throat after all that talk about fencing between Denmark and Germany, because of wild boars (btw that is such a stupid idea). I picked up a stone and left silently in another direction.

The Mountain behind La Donaira

Crystal stones in the area

Rainbow Mountain of clay

Amazing big old spanish oak trees

Typical native flowers of the season

I think it is an almond tree

A butterfly taking a break on a wild savage plant 

I enjoy the nature every day, either when walking around the 700hectares that this Finca/farm occupies, with all its different plants and animals to discover. Or when I am walking back to El Nido after working in the garden, and stops to sit and stare in a new spot. It takes about 10-15 minutes to run down to the garden and about 30minutes to walk back uphill, so breaks are needed! I feel wonderfully free when I am running downhill in the morning, always with a bit of adrenalin from the fear of breaking a leg. It is a good warm-up and awakener! Or I enjoy the view from El Nido, laid back on the terrace, from where I can see the beautiful mountain, Tajo Algarin, in front of the Finca/Farm and the mountain behind the farm.  

The left ring is around El Gastor, the middle ring is The Garden and the right ring is La Donaira and where we live.

Tajo Algarin seen from both sides

This weekend i finally climbed Tajo Algarin, which i have been longing to discover ever since i came. I went there with a girl from Lithuania, who walked at least 400Km with her horse and with a very philosophical guy from England. We had a great hike with deep philosophical conversations and ended up smearing black olives from the trees in our faces and hair.