Walk back to the CV-715 (580 m) and turn right. Keep an eye on the roads that
go left uphill. When you see a narrow asphalt road with an information board
some twenty meters uphill from the turn (4min) (560 m), take this road. Soon you
meet the CV-715 again (8min) (590 m). Turn right, walk some forty meters and
fork on a concrete walkway right downhill. This walkway takes you to the
Benissalim fountain (15min) (520 m). You have a nice view over the Tárbena
valley to Sierra del
Carrascal and Coll
de Rates.
The walkway bends sharp left by the fountain. Walk some fifteen meters from
the fountain, and take a path that goes right skirting an olive grove. The path
widens to a track. Ignore all side tracks, and you end up to an
asphalt road
(30min) (465 m) Turn right with Sierra
del Ferrer ahead.
You pass the Buscarro fountain on the left hand side of the road (38min) (420
m). Ignore the side roads. Soon after the hotel Lehmi (50min) (385 m), the road
forks (52min) (390 m). Keep left. When you meet a sign for Ivanyes by the Blanca
fountain (1h03min) (430 m), go straight ahead.
The road takes you to a fountain pouring out water on the left hand side of
the road close to a tall white stone house (1h15min) (460 m). Here you have to
fork right on a downhill track.
Walk some twenty meters on the track and bend left by the corner of a house.
The track narrows into a path.
When the path forks (1h20min) (435 m), take the left fork, which is almost
hidden by the branches of a giant fig tree.
The path descends to the Tarongers fountain
(1h25min) (420 m). Do not continue right downhill, altough this path is wider,
but take the grassy path left uphill. After passing ruins of a house the path
descends through olive tree terraces to a track (1h35min) (415 m). Turn left
uphill.
The track bends sharp left uphill and leads through a pine forest to an
asphalt road (1h40min) (450 m). Turn right downhill, and keep your eyes on the
right hand side of the road. When you see a sign for Sa Falzia (1h44min) (440
m), take this track.
Do not cross the barranc, but fork left to a narrower track that keeps
following the barranc (1h50min) (390 m). The track descends to the barranc and
forks (2h) (360 m). Take the left fork. The track narrows into a path, and then
widens again to a track, which climbs through orchards to an asphalt road
(2h15min) (430 m). Now you are back at the junction with the Blanca fountain and
sign for Ivanyes. This time turn left.
Walk on the road past the Lehmi hotel and Buscarro fountain until you see a
sign for Benissalim on the left hand side of the road (2h40min) (445 m). Take
this concrete walkway. The walkway bends sharp right uphill. Soon
after the bend, turn left on a track that lines an olive grove (2h44min) (445
m). If you miss this turn you end up to a house where the concrete way ends.
The ascending track bends left (2h48min) (470 m). Some twenty meters after
this bend, when the track curves right, fork left on a path (485 m). When the
path forks, go right uphill (2h53min) (495 m).
By the Benissalim fountain (3h) (520 m), take the concrete walkway left
uphill. It takes you to the CV-715 (3h10min) (590 m). Turn left and fork left
(3h14min) on the narrow asphalt road. Soon you are back to CV-715 (3h17min) with
a view to Tárbena and Sierra
de Bernia. Turn right, and then left uphill on the Avinguda d'Eusebio Signes which takes
you back to the parking place (3h20min).
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