The Alpujarras, where eagles fly

Walking on the edge of a cliff high above the ground give me the feeling of flying and I very much like to fly in the Alpujarras region that clings to the southern flanks of the Sierra Nevada in Andalucía. This limited upland area where high mountain sides bring shelter to white villages and farmland terraces stands in big contrast to the otherwise arid foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It is a privilege to be there and you almost hope that the trail will never end.

After being forced to abandon their precious Alhambra in Granada the moors settled down in the Alpujarras. But after a series of uprisings against the christian rule the arabs finally were expelled out of Spain to North Africa in the early seventeenth century.

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