The fisher village of Garrucha has a fisher market well worth visiting. The fish restaurants are well known, but make sure you visit a busy restaurant, preferably with locals, so you know price and quality are fine.

On Fridays is the week market in the streets of old Garrucha. In summer there is a very charming evening market every night on the boulevard. In august there also the fair on the pier, which is open till very late at night.

A little bit farther down the coast you will find a charming village, called Mojacar Playa. This little town has a lot of small restaurants next to and on the beach. Especially at night there’s a lot to do in Mojacar. There are a lot of shops of all kinds. Also there’s a golf terrain in Mojacar.

Some kilometres inland from Mojacar strip you will find the old picturesque Mojacar village situated on a hilltop.

On the terraces on this hilltop you will surely enjoy your cup of coffee with a marvellous view over the coastline. On Sunday mornings there’s a charming flea market at the square at the beginning of the village and on Wednesdays there’s the large week market on the soccer fields all the way on top off the hill.

Nature lovers may want to visit the national park of Cabo de Gata or one of the other national parks in the region like Las Marias/ Los Velez nearby Velez Rubio.

The 54,000-acre large natural park Sierra Maria-Los Velez, a natural park since 1987, holds many surprises for the visitor, including a rural lifestyle long disappeared from other parts of Spain.

Here, goatherders wander the hills as they guard their flocks, families bake their daily bread in the communal oven, and day-to-day business is carried on at an unhurried pace. The nearby park, with its landscape of mountains and pine forests, makes for excellent walking and off-trail biking expeditions (see our activities page), aside from harbouring a unique wildlife.

This is one of the few places in southern Spain where you can spot squirrels. It is also home to the threatened European tortoise (testudo graeca), which is now being bred at a special centre in the park to increase its numbers.

The local countryside also boasts a large variety of wildlife including foxes, wild boar, mountain cat and badgers, so if you are looking for walking holidays in Spain you have come to the right place.

Golden eagles, snake eagles and eagle owls soar in the skies above the house and other bird-life includes kestrel, vulgar, crossbill, linnet, thekla lark, wood lark, and partridge, which makes for excellent walks and days out in stunning, dramatic scenery.

The area is home to the impressive Griffon vulture in an ambitious plan to repopulate the sierras with these high-flying birds.

At 10 minutes from Velez Rubio you will find Velez Blanco. In Velez Blanco stands a beautiful Moorish Fort from which you can overlook the mountains and the national park.  In Velez Blanco are also various other historic monuments.  You can for example set out to see the wonderful petro glyphs, where you can admirer the Indalo, which is now the symbol for Almeria. The Indalo man appears on a sheltered rock face in the mountains. Not far from where the Indalo was found is the Cueva de los Letreros (the Cave of Symbols), a UNESCO world heritage site, where drawings of witch doctors, warriors and game indicate that man has called this land home since prehistory.

Children will enjoy a day at the very close waterslide spark. After four pm you get a reduced price.

Also Mini-Hollywood in the desert nearby Tabernas will make an excellent day trip for children. In the former film sets of the spaghetti westerns they created a park which also holds a zoo and a swimming pool.

A more educational daytrip are the caves of Sorbas. Here you can make short easy trips as well as the heavy duty climbing and crawling trips where you will get wet…

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