The Garganta de Cares (Cares Gorge) cuts deep into the Picos de Europa, a beautiful range of mountains rising up to 2500m and close to the north coast of Spain.

Arenas de Cabrales is a delightful hill town and a good place to reach Poncebos for access into the gorge. The path is spectacular and threads its way through fantastic scenery to the small hamlet of Cain where refreshment is available before the walk back. The round trip can take about 6 hours and, although the path is entirely safe in good conditions, vertigo sufferers might not find it to their liking.

There are plenty of other more challenging walks in the area for the suitably experienced and equipped, with a number of refugios, Alpine style mountain huts, to allow round trips through the range.

Arenas de Cabrales Tourist Office, Carretera General, E-33554 Arenas de Cabrales, Spain. Tel: + 34 985 846 484

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It's a beautiful town with strong Asturian culture. A river to canoe and a beach to surf. The surf adventure company surf atlantico make a stop there

27km west of Llanes.
www.surf-atlantico.com

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Niembro is a beautiful tiny village in Asturias, close to its border with Cantabria. This gorgeous beach, also known as Toranda, is surrounded by soft green hills, and by little tiny islands and rocks, the sand is extremely fine and white.
There's also a nudist beach within walking distance on the other side of a hill.

I've been to many beaches around Europe and Niembro's is certainly the one I've found most captivating.

Niembro, not far from Llanes, Asturias.

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