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Leave Beniali on the lane down past the village school, at the
bottom continue along the camino to the next village, Benissiva.
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Pass across front of church, through alley turning left past
“casa gallinera”, right after the railings and left (waymarked yellow/white) onto cobbled path, bear right at
the bottom and across small bridge and emerge behind bar “La Font”. Follow broad concrete track down to font and
up the steps onto main road. Turn right and after 50 metres take track to the right. At the sharp right bend at the bottom
take the waymarked path to the left (take care here) and emerge again on main road. Turn right and take next right (signposted
“Piscina”) and follow this lane up to next village.
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Arrive La Carroja. Turn right opposite “La Cueva”
restaurant down the steps and all the way through village. As you descend take waymarked track to left. As you level out at
top straight ahead keeping picturesque rubbish dump on your left. Past dump and straight ahead (signpost La Garriga). Down
to bottom and follow river bed about 100metres and take waymarked track on left up to village.
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Arrive Alpatro. Follow “Carrer Sant Marc” to your
right – all the way to the end (not left) and then turn left onto new road. Turn right at the end onto lane past pale
green villa. Continue passing deserted village of Llombai . 100metres after Llombai turn left, continue to end and turn left
up to main road.
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At main road turn right and immediately left onto lane. Continue
to sharp right bend and take footpath in far corner which rises initially steeply and then zigzags up to the castle. Past
castle to the font in far corner.
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Take the narrow goat track behind the font which zigzags fairly
steeply up through gorse to the ridge. Turn left at the ridge and after 50 metres look for feint path left through gorse towards
the signpost you can see up ahead. (At this point you may wish to scramble to the cross at the highest point for terrific
views).
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From the signpost “Els Avantpassats mes lluyans”
take the path south easterly towards the dip in the ridge (take care here). You now have about a 2 hour walk following the
ridge across to the forada. Follow the path along the ridge and descend and take the path which goes left down through gorse.
As you emerge from the gorse and level out look for path forking slightly left which decends gently at first but then zigzags
down. At the bottom there is a track going right through terracing towards Alcala but take the steep goat track up the far
side. At the top find the highest point (metal post in rocks) where you can pick out the path along next ridge. Follow this
path to next highest pont (white concrete column belonging to National Geographic Society). From this point again you can
see the path along next ridge but you will need to backtrack about 20 metres to pick the path down. Follow this ridge path
all the way to the Forada.
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From the Forada take the left path and shortly turn left following
the zigzag track back underneath the forada taking the right hand path at the split back towards Benitaia. At the surfaced
lane turn left and follow down into Benitaia and then Benissiva. Take the road through Benissiva and then the lane through
to Beniali.
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