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After a short section of tarmac road, farm tracks lead you down from La Muela then up round the southern flank of the Abejaruco peak. From here you follow ancient bridleways back to your point of departure with views south to Vejer and its rice paddies and east towards the Grazalema mountains. By setting out early you’ll get back to Santa Lucía in time for lunch in one of the hamlet’s three restaurants.

The walk begins outside Venta El Toro in Santa Lucía. With your back to the restaurant turn right up the hill past a towering palm tree. Passing a cross continue straight ahead, then reaching a water deposit cut left up a broad track which leads to a junction and a sign Camino de Verde Cabra. Here cut right up a narrow path which leads up the right side of an aqueduct to reach an old mill fronted by a post-and-rail fence.

The Santa Lucía aqueduct near Vejer

Pass right of the building, angle right beneath a cast iron pipe, then continue up a narrow, leafy path which climbs to a flat area with a picnic bench. From here head straight on along a quiet minor road towards La Muela. After 450m you reach a fork. Here branch right, away from the tarmac, along a sandy track which arcs round the boundary fence of a quarry.