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Yesterday we walked behind those mountains over there, and this morning behind a mountain a bit closer to this viewpoint. The Sierra de Grazalema has more mountains than flat land. |
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This is the short way from Grazalema-town to our
hotel. With all those mountains, you don't have any really short ways: it's
all curves.
Our hotel, an old farm, lies in a small valley, 160 meters lower than the main road. The way takes a lot of curves, to get this deep in only 1,500 meters length. |
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| Seven drinking-troughs in a line, a nice sight on a hot summer day. A lot of frogs were sitting on the sides of the troughs, but they all jumped into the water when we approached. Splash! Just in time to make a picture of the splashing water of the last frog in. | |
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| Another river in the landscape, recognizable by the ribbon of pink oleander-flowers. Our walk crosses the river several times. A walk along the river is almost certainly shadowy. In 35 degrees you like shadow!!! The water of the river is very clear. We see a lot of water-animals, like whirligig-beetles. | |
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The water in this reservoir is so blue, that we expect the bottom has been painted blue before the barrier was closed. As the reservoir is only a few years old (it didn't even show on our map), the paint can still be there. |
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| We know for certain the bottom of the swimming-pool is made of blue tiles. A lot of swallows come to drink from the pool: they fly close over the surface, dipping their beak into the water. Most of the wasps that try to drink from the pool, drown. |
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