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Published: January 17th 2013
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The most awe-inspiring, spine-tingling, and hair-raising roads of Andalusian, in my opinion, is the A-4130 in Las Alpujarras. To find thisroad, look for a village named Travelez in Las Alpujarras. Head east from that village on the only main road, A-4129. The A-4130 will be on the right hand side not too far from the village.If you are a roller coaster junkie, you know about the Boulder Dash, Raven, ShiveringTimbers, GhostRider, and Cyclone. Those are in the top 10 best roller coasters list compiled by the junkies. I am not a roller coaster junkie,but I think the experience I have on this road is equivalent to riding those roller coasters. Every hairpin, zig zag, switchback, and blind curve on this road are G-force producing turns. The road is safe at regular posted speeds but it can be treacherous at any higher speed as it has very narrow mountain passes and ridges with salivating bends, hairpins, zig zags, and blind curves.Going downhill is an even more
nerve wracking experience because I can see the panoramic unobstructed view of how far I would plunge into the canyon if I understeer the car.
Fortunately again, there is barely any traffic on this road since it doesn't have any village along it. It is more a connecting road between two arteries.At seven at night I pass only one car in the 10 km stretch of the purest form of joy of driving. As the sun is setting, it plays shadow with the mountains and valleys accentuating the already breathtaking landscape.Getting to A-4130 from A-4129 may not be as fun even though A-4129 has similar characteristics as A-4130 with a lot less scary parts. There are several villages along A-4129 so the traffic can be heavy at times.Another road worth driving on, in this region, is the road that leads toSierra Nevada from
Granada, A-395. I climb all the way to
2500 meter where I arrive at a rest stop with restaurants where bus loads of tourists are enjoying the 280 degree sweeping view of the pastoral beauty of rolling mountains and valleys. At 3000 m, there is an observatory and a mountain pass that would take me to the Las Alpujarras, but the pass is closed when I get there. This road is similar to the A-376 from Sevilla to Ronda and Marbella as far the beauty and the technicality.It is not the car, but the Autovia A-4 from Cadiz to Sevilla. After two days of resting and relaxing at thebeautiful coastal and port city of Cadiz, I am driving back to Sevilla to catch a 27-hour train rides to Nice (France), a stop over for my longtrain journey to Ingolstadt. I find it hard to drive at the speed of the flow of sparse traffic. Autovia A-4 is relatively brand new toll road with Autobahn quality...
andreas@driving-vacation.com
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