welcome back to the channel guys adventure elliot here and my friend carlos that i met
on the camino de santiago and today we're doing a route in the mountains of malaga here we are going
towards el torcal de antequera where there's a lot of geologic and geographic interesting points
that i'll talk about later but let's check out the route en route to the trail we're
going to we're going to do a shorter route today about two hours and i'll show you when we get to
the point where we start it is absolutely beautiful and it's cold here it's december
it's almost christmas time so join carlos and i on an adventure in the mountains of malaga
all right here we are at the natural park torcal
de antequera so this is where we're gonna have today's adventure and i've been here once before
a very interesting story it was in summer two summers ago when i started my youtube channel and
there's some backstory behind that which i'll explain later so we're gonna do i think the two
hour harder out and man it is cold we got carlos and the handy dandy hiking stick and we got
gustavo the uh chihuahua that he adopted probably a month ago we did that together cordoban olive
oil area just look at these rocks here these are definitely unique car stick formations hola buenos
and let's see how long gus can keep up with us before we have to
hold him he's a tough little bugger though look at him good boy gus
so carlos and i we met back at the border of cantabria and asturias and we hiked together
for two days along the cantabrian sea in northern spain absolutely stunning northern spain together
oh
gente
um and became friends and lo and behold he says i'm from malaga and i moved here and here we are
doing the same hiking but this time in southern spain
and gustavo now has joined us so this is a little bit
difficult you got to watch where you're stepping there's a lot more jagged rocks everywhere
uh but nonetheless what a geologic anomaly phenomenon here
and like i said man it is freezing
it's almost like we're in another planet check it out
so everyone might think that andalusia is always sunny and warm and dry well you have these little
microclimates here clearly it's wet it's rained recently but that's what all these mountains
uh do is they create micro climates like the one you even have in malaga where it's sunny and warm
it has a nice year-round average temperature when you compare to the rest of europe
and malaga the coast the capital is only about 45 minutes and uh car from here
so you can get the best of both worlds in a matter of hours wow benecke check this out bro
wow jesus nobody's out here today we got the whole place to ourselves
incredible
you can even see the clouds moving there we're at that elevation here
i'm not exactly sure what elevation it is pretty pretty spectacular you guys
wow guys i just lost my cell phone imagine losing your cell phone in these rocks and miraculously
i found it and it's not even damaged i can't even believe it
so make sure you secure your cell phone when you're hiking through these rocks because man
it's incredible how much we depend on our cell phones these days crikey come on gus look it
gus really loves adventuring with us look at this guy what a brave young little perrito he's a true
adventurer okay you guys so we're at the point where you can go to the hard route or the easy
route and because of time it's already 4 30 here the sun's gonna set in an hour and a half or so
and we got a little dog we're going to take the easier route but nonetheless look at it beautiful
little canyon here carlos said that he spotted mountain goats and i wanted to mention that
this is known for its wildlife here so if we can get some videos of a mountain goat
that would be awesome can't guarantee it though but what we can guarantee is this spectacular
geology unlike anything in the world and the only other place that i can think that was like
that made me go wow was uh tenerife when i went up to spain's highest point volcan
okay you guys this might be the best shot we get of the volcano highest point in spain at
uh 3718 meters there we go verification and there is the highest point in spain
wow all this rock is volcanic and and wow you can just see like
where the magma like slowly uh crap came sedentary there all of this is volcanic rock so cool
and of course there's many more beautiful and spectacular mind-blowing sights in spain many
of which you've seen in my videos but each one has their own charm in their own and
their own special thing about it so here in this uh canyon let me give you guys a look
in this canyon yeah we can see vultures goats it is much warmer there is no wind because this big
uh cliff here is blocking the wind so that is nice finally we warmed up in gustavo look
at this guy wow he is truly the most adventurous chihuahua i've ever seen
he takes after his dad carlos gus is going to lead us here let's go gus come on
it's bringing back memories of the camino de santiago and asturias
me and him hiking along those beautiful coastal cliffs of
asturias so just a little science lesson basically first of all i'm not a geologist but this uh
these formations here the reason they have these interesting shapes is because they
are karst formations and therefore they are limestone and limestone erodes very very easily
and so when it rains it erodes the rocks and leaves what you see here
and i'm pretty sure this was also an ancient sea millions and millions of years ago
actually been here one time before however i didn't do this hiking excursion but i
came here with a middle-aged british woman from cornwall and i was doing what's called a work away
yes what a great way to end the work day
so i volunteer worked in riogordo spain which is another little beautiful andalusian malaganian
village city small town
and when i first arrived there she was so nice she received me well um she hosted me of course
and she idealized me and she said well you're better than having a boyfriend and you know we got
along and i was working on her little farm there helping with her animals fixing up the property
and so she brought me here one of those days to check this out and she also brought me to
the wolf sanctuary i did a video there with daniel the wolf whisperer a german guy who
socializes i guess has wolves here from all over the world here near
antequera and anyways she brought me here and i checked it out but i didn't do this route
long story short you can have good workaways and bad ones well
i had a good one in another village near alcala real spain where i started making youtube videos
and i was with her and it was good at first but then after about three or four days
everything went bad and i had to get out of there because at the end of the day you guys
you're staying with strangers and sometimes you might get along sometimes you might not get along
and she started to not like me and she was you know giving me all sorts of weird strange threats
um and i just you know she was a nice lady but i think she had some issues anyways i
got out of there came back to malaga where i met my german friends johannes and nettie and
we went on an epic road trip along the southern coast of spain murcia valencia alicante almeria
and then i started the camino de santiago so these were like my first youtube videos here
in spain so it's kind of like full circle and so i should make a video on workaways because
workaways are a popular and cheap and affordable way to travel because you live with a host you
work for them and in exchange they provide you food and housing and usually they are
exceptional because you can see their profiles and see reviews on what other work away people
have rated them as good or bad but this lady had no reviews and so i took a risk and the reason was
was because we just ended the quarantine lockdown and i needed a place to stay i pretty much had no
choice and i thought well i'm open-minded i've stayed with strangers before in mexico
and costa rica i've done it all like that and yeah a nice learning lesson a little sidetrack
from this video but if you want to learn more about workaway let me know i can make a video
a more in-depth video on my work away experiences all right guys it's very windy but i want you to
see this and i'll turn the volume off so the wind doesn't body but check out this view
all right man frozen in malaga who would have thought
we're back in the car warming up and then we're gonna head back into
ante cara to get some typical food so wow what an adventure guys did you have fun
we did that hike just in the nick of time because now we can't see anything full-on fog here and
we got lucky so now the real challenge starts because this is a very windy road and
we can't really see much there's really low visibility so wish us luck guys
check this out the fog is dissipating and these are the views below the sun
so that just proves the micro climate we're in check it out incredible
that is the mediterranean far into the distance
antequera you guys this is antequera definitely famous yeah yeah yeah
look at that check this out this is the castle in antequera
wow antequera below and the rock of love la piedra de los amantes
so navigating these little spanish streets here isn't the easiest task to do they're
up and down and they're they're narrow so this is a anti-carry you guys you saw the
castle there from the previous clip wowzers wow check this out
look guys it's the mercadona distribution center woohoo mercadona mercadona it employs
so many people and look at all the trucks lining up you guys i saw like a hundred of them not even
this part geez oh geez mercado mercadona okay guys this is where they make the poverones and
the monte carlos they're packaging them right now
interesting here in this distribution center that's only open from august past december
yeah only through christmas you guys
so you come here for christmas and you get all these things these polverones or these
montecados which look like this you'll see them all over spanish grocery stores
and they're made with the pig lard right
with sugar and flour and they have they're what they're called polverones or mantecados so like
this place is really famous for them you'll see them all over spain so cool carlos is the
one who invited me here he knows the stuff that's valuable for you guys as a spaniard well you guys
so that was an excursion a little fun video in the mountains of antequera the torcal finishing
here at the antequera bye bye adios and i bought this uh mixed bag of polverones and mantecados
so i hope you guys liked that video we're actually by the mercadona distribution center carlos
it was a great day so i'll see you guys on the next video hasta luego