Villa El Rincon Del Viento

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For those wanting to venture from the Villa, the spa town of Lanjaron, with its healing and youth giving waters, is a 10-minute drive. The town's Balneario is the place you can indulge in a whole range of treatments.

The Market town of Orgiva is close by and Chris Stewarts famous books ' Driving over Lemons', 'A Parrot in a Pepper Tree' and more recently 'The Almond Appreciation Society' , have made Orgiva ever more popular. The town has a large market on a Thursday and a craft market at the campsite on the way to Lanjaron, every Sunday morning.

Both towns of Lanjaron and Orgiva have a good selection of shops, banks and restaurants. El Limonero in Orgiva is new for Las Alpujarras and gets good reviews.

In just 45 minutes you can be visiting the famous Alhambra Palace in Granada or taking in the city's exclusive shops. Afterwards you can wander around the narrow ancient streets of the city's Albaicin quarter for a feel how Granada used to be. The Cathedral sits grandly in the Granada's city centre and is surrounded by the Moorish shops and lots of good quality restaurants and tapas bars . In Granada and Las Alpujarras , tapas are still usually given free when you have a drink, a tradition that has gone from many other parts of Spain.

A further 20-minutes up the mountain road from Granada is the Sierra Nevada ski resort . The resort usually opens to skiers from December until April. There are plenty of shops to hire ski equipment and a lively après ski scene.

In just 45 minutes from the Villa you can be enjoying a seafood lunch on the beaches of The Costa Tropical with its lovely resorts of Salobreña , Almuñecar and La Herradura. For more peaceful and secluded sun bathing you can drive down the steep track to the nudist beaches of Playa Cantarriján, just outside La Herradura.

If you require even more exertion, the high mountains of the Sierra Nevada including Mulhácen (the highest in Spain) and Veleta, it's challenging neighbour are close by. These can be conquered by catching a bus from from the white village of Capileira . The bus takes you to the Mirador de Trevelez. From here you can reach the peak of Mulhácen in three hours by foot. Many other mountain walks begin from the lovely white villages of Pampaneira , Bubion and Capileira . The villages can be reached by car from El Rincon del Viento in 30 - 40 minutes. There is also a bus that goes to the villages from Lanjaron.