BENITACHELL – Les Fonts to Teulada Quarry – Tue

Walk leaders: Alex & Elaine

Meeting Point	The centre of Les Fonts Urbanisation. GPS 38.742109 N, 0.134826 E Use View Venue Website below for precise location.
Walking Route	Distance : 6,8 km	Camis and paths from Les Fonts to quary
Terrain	Walking Surface	Mostly tarmac roads, one gravel track. Spendid views
	Ascent	3km uphill – 200m ascent, Steep hill to the Quary of 500m
Directions to Meeting Point	From Moraira: Drive to Benitachell on the Moraira- Benitachell road. At the traffic lights go Left and drive to the next junction to the right. Turn sharp right here into avenida Alicante. This road starts to narrow after 50m and you need to turn left after approx. 250m, the next road on the left turn left. Go straight on into l’Abiar (signed to Les Fonts Urbanisation); From Benitachell church: Follow the road past the cemetery on the right and behind the back of the church on the left. At the first crossroads, with the police station on your right, turn right into l’Abiar (signed to Les Fonts Urbanisation); Both: Down the winding hill and past the Windmill and take the first road on the right (Lluca). Follow Lluca, ignoring all turnings, and go up into Les Fonts urb. keep to main road and after approx. 1.5km you will reach a parking area adjacent to the local mail boxes and dustbins. From Jávea: On the Jávea-Benitachell CV740, turn right at the stone cross. Ignore all side turnings on this road, go past the bins on your right, and head towards Les Fonts. Just after entering the urbanisation the parking area will come into view which is adjacent to the local mail boxes and dustbins.

Walk Description

This walk is preferably done from the Les Fonts urbanisaton, because the walk is then half uphill and the second half downhill.
The best views are when the walk is started via the middle road opposite the bins at the centre of les fonts towards Teulada.

1. With the dustbins on your immediate right, cross the road and take the road opposite the dust bins towards Teulada. The road rises untl just before you reach the edge of the Les Fonts urbanisaton, at this point the road narrows and starts to descend pass the Tasca restaurant ( log cabin ) on the lef and turns into “Via Pista”.(to be followed for 1,5km).
2. Contnue down this winding road, ignore the tarmac road on the lef and walk up the steep hill, at the top the road curves to the lef and right. Move to the right hand side of the road and take the wide block pathing which contnues through the ‘S’ bend and up the hill.
3. Afer completng the ‘S’ bend follow the block paving up the long fairly steep hill passing a number of villas on the right (bungalow style). Towards the top of the hill the block paving stops and the road narrows through a couple of ‘S’ bends. Afer these bends you need to take a sharp right turn just before the green bin at the multple juncton, Turn right here.
4. Take this old tarmac road through the trees, up the steep hill and past a concrete storage building on the lef. Contnue up the winding hill to the top where you will see the old radio hut and mast 100 meters to your lef and also views of the quarry. At this juncton you should turn right and take the wide loose stone track. Time for a rest here and enjoy the views all around.
5. Contnue the walk with the road which goes to the right, ignoring any paths to the lef.This track climbs slightly,
   descents and then climbs again at which point the track narrows and the surface becomes old tarmac. Towards the top of the second climb there is a good tarmac road to the lef, ignore this lef turn and contnue on the old tarmac road.
6. Shortly afer the turn the tarmac surface improves and the road levels out for a short distance. On completon of this short level secton the road descends steeply with just a couple of short uphill sectons. This long road down also has several steep lef and right turns.
7. Afer approx. 2km you will reach the T-juncton with cami vell de Teulada, turn right at this juncton and contnue along this road for +- 700m untl you reach the car parking area from where you started the walk.