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Álora

Caminito del Rey from El Chorro

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Spain

Andalusia

Malaga

Centro-Sur O Guadalorce

Álora

Caminito del Rey from El Chorro

Hard

4.9

(984)

12,524

hikers

Caminito del Rey from El Chorro

04:03

8.65km

620m

Hiking

Hard hike. Good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 24, 2024

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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426 m

View of Puente de la Josefona

Highlight • Viewpoint

Impressive bridge at the end of the gorge.

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1.36 km

Caminito del Rey Walkway

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

General admission: 10 euros. Includes access and free visit. Guided tour of the Caminito del Rey: 18 euros. Includes access and visit with a tour guide in a group of up to 20 people.

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6.93 km

Balcon de cristal

Highlight • Gorge

The Desfiladero de los Gaitanes is a canyon excavated by the Guadalhorce river in the municipality of Álora, with access from the north through the Guadalhorce reservoirs and from the …

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7.14 km

Caminito del Rey

Highlight • Trail

The duration of the complete route (section from the door of one walkway to the other, plus the trails or forest tracks to get to/from the area) is between 3 and 4 hours.

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8.65 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

6.44 km

1.62 km

557 m

Surfaces

4.73 km

3.86 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (450 m)

Lowest point (210 m)

Weather

Saturday 11 July

33°C

20°C

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Max wind speed: 15.0 km/h

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Comments

April 16, 2025,Caminito del Rey (Andalusia)

Spectacular and daring path suspended halfway up the Chorro gorge. Built at the beginning of the 20th century to connect the hydroelectric stations that supplied electricity to the entire area, even as far as Madrid. Now it is exclusively for tourist and hiking use.
It is several kilometers long, a good part of which is on vertiginous walkways leaning against …

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February 16, 2024,Gemütliche Genusswandelei durch den Caminito del Rey

Note on our own behalf: Shortly before the end of the Camino...before the bridge...unfortunately the GPS signal (through the high mountains) showed the other side...but the exact route is along the dashed line on the map see.

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October 21, 2024,ES: Caminito del Rey

The Caminito del Rey (roughly "narrow king's path") was a 4-kilometer-long via ferrata until 2015 and is now a secured hiking trail near Ardales in the province of Málaga in southern Spain. It leads along steep walls at a height of around 100 meters through two narrow gorges up to 200 meters deep. It was dilapidated and closed for a …

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April 8, 2025,Abenteuer für alle - Caminito del Rey

Caminito del Rey. A well-organized adventure through an impressive canyon landscape. If you're afraid of heights, it's best to leave your fear of heights at home; the walk along the vertical cliffs is truly enjoyable.

Tickets: Sold out for weeks on the Caminito website, overpriced on Get Your Guide. Just go. We still had plenty of tickets available at the …

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June 1, 2024,Caminito del Rey

Today we actually did a guided tour. There were no more tickets available for individuals... the path was gigantic. Between 50 and 100 meters above the river, always along the forest. It is a pimped-up service path that the employees used to maintain the water canal for the upper reservoir of the hydroelectric power station. The canal and the power …

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October 7, 2025,Caminito del rey

What a breathtaking hike. So beautiful, quite exciting, up the rocks, over the suspension bridge (which is quite scary, the wind was blowing very hard up there), and then the bridge moves. But fantastically beautiful.

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September 19, 2023,Wandeling

Walked the Caminito del Rey today! You really have to see and do that! What views, spectacular. Not strenuous, but very beautiful.

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October 10, 2022,🇪🇸 Caminito del Rey

Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera with me today, but I hope that the cell phone photos will, despite everything, reflect these wonderful and incredible impressions of this gorge tour.

Our tour started from the village "El Churro". Unfortunately, since we could only book a guided tour through the gorge online, we embarked on this adventure. A group of about …

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Balcon de cristal

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