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To Playa de Santiago

Keep straight ahead past the buildings and a few palms, up across a scrubby slope, then wind down past palms. The rugged path crosses scrubby slopes and a stone-paved path runs in front of houses at El Rumbazo. Go down stone steps and down a steep and bendy road to cross a bridge, reaching a road junction and a map-board. Ruta 24 joins Ruta 23 here. Turn right and follow the road to Playa de Santiago. (See ssss1 for the route description.)

Ascent to Targa

This is a steep and rocky climb of 500m (1640ft). Turn right to follow Ruta 20 up a narrow, stone-paved path beside a barranco, passing palms. Cross the barranco and keep climbing, drifting right up a steep and scrubby buttress. Further uphill worn, red rock leads to a path junction. Turn left and climb across an old water channel, passing agaves, cistus, prickly pears, tabaibal and verode. The path climbs up around cliffs, in and out of gullies, exploiting every weakness to gain height on a formidable mountainside. The path is gentler as it crosses a rocky gap and reaches a road. Turn right up the road to a signpost at Targa, for options to walk to Alajeró or Antoncojo.