Villanueva del Rosario climbing AREA

[9b]

40 km from Malaga, 30 to Antequera, 17 to Archidona

90 km from Granada.

 

1) In Malaga, the RENFE railway station is just a short walk across a footbridge from the airport departures terminal:

take the train to the city centre, it run every half hour (at 15 minutes to and 15 minutes past each hour) from early in the morning until late at night.

The fare into the city is about €1.

 

You then need to walk the short distance from the station to the main Malaga bus terminus.

Buses to the village leave several times a day.

The journey should take just under an hour.

From Malaga to Villanueva:

8, 13.30, 15.30, 19.30

Saturday: 12.30, 19,15

Sunday: 13, 19.30

 

From Villanueva to Malaga:

7, 9.45, 14.45, 17.30

Saturday: 8.30, 17.45

Sunday: 9.30, 18

 

Price: 3,84 euros

 

 

Services are less frequent at weekends.

The single fare is less than €4.

  

2) Another option is to take a train to Antequera:

There is also a bus from Bobadilla train station to Antequera (timetable)

 

From Antequera, take a bus to Villanueva, the cave is visible from the village.

 

From Antequera you can travel onward to Cordoba, Granada and Seville by bus or train.

(Please note that Antequera railway station is some distance from the town centre and up a fairly steep hill).

 

 

To sleep:

 

-under Chilam Balam cave, exactly at the entrance of Villanueva del Rosario (ctra de Malaga), there is Hostal "El Cerezo" (tel [phone]), from where you can walk (not more than 20 minutes) to Chilam Balam cave.

Rooms with bathroom, hot shower, television.

It costs 20 euros a night, 1 person, but if you stay for more nights, can costs 15 or even 10 euros a night, depending from how many nights you stay.

In the hostal there is a restaurant too: food is very good and cheap.

 

- in Archidona there is a climbers' refuge "La saucedilla", tel [phone], 10 minutes from Archidona, at km n.6 in the route from Archidona and Villanueva del Trabuco

 

If anybody have the following informations, please, write them as a comment here, thank you in advance:

- is it possible and how to go to the refuge with bus (from Antequera or Archidona) ?

- is it possible and how to go, without a carf, rom the refuge to Villanueva del rosario ?

 

From the refuge, You can go climbing at:

Yugoslavia-Villanueva de cauche (about 40 routes), Cueva de Archidona (about 50 routes), Cueva Chica (about 30 routes), La hoja-Archidona (about 50 routes)

 

 

 

About 80 routes.

Very close there is "Taco de la madera", about 100 routes.