Arico Nuevo to El Contador

[cyberhiker]

On Monday, I walked from the lovely village of Arico Nuevo to El Contador, a recreation zone/campsite high in the mountains. The scenery along the way was superb, particularly in the Barranco de Tamadaya, where I saw three great spotted woodpeckers. The walk, which is quite hard, is 23 kilometres in length with around 1300 metres of climbing and took me 8.25 hours to complete. Here is a picture of one of the woodpeckers

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[Janet]

In a few more posts your links will be active, Cyber .... it's an anti-spammer measure that they're inactive for the first few posts.

HERE's that link everybody. 

[cyberhiker]

Thanks Janet 

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

What a gorgeous woodpecker.  Looks very similar to the ones we had in the UK.

[Perikles]

and took me 8.25 hours to complete.

So an average kind of stroll for you then....

[cyberhiker]

I was fine for the 8 hours but that .25 was a real killer! 

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

According to my new bird book which I got for Xmas, that is the great spotted woodpecker.  Thought so!