The Way of Rey

The other day, by pure casualidad pillé a species of report on a “footpath” situated in Málaga and that calls the Way or Caminito of Rey.

The truth is that I call me a lot the attention and now will explain you because and thought, that penalty that this so far, because the truth is that it has very good paints.

The way of the King is a species of way roughly of 3 Km and built directly on the river in the cliffs of the Desfiladero of the Gaitanes in the municipal term of The Chorro in the province of Málaga.

The runway as it can check in the photo is literally hanged on a totally vertical wall of hardly 1 metre of width and hanged to but of 100 metres of height. The majority of the route discurre without rail and in some stretches the pavimento this agujerado or are missing parts that have given off with what the precaución that has to take is maximum. In fact it seems that this place as you can imagine you has a high siniestralidad and several excursionistas have lost the life here.

The origin of this peculiar way is in the need that the Hydroelectric Society of the Chorro had to access to the Jump of the Gaitanejo and of the Jump of the Chorro. So in 1901 they began the works that finished in 1905.

In 1921, it inaugurated the prey of the Earl of the Guadalhorce and Alfonso XIII visited part of this footpath, moment from the cual began to call him The caminito of Rey.

The way calló in the abandonment and after multiple accidents some of them mortal The Board of Andalucia tried to destroy the entrance to the footpath, what did not achieve since in the actuality the excursionistas follow adentrándose by this dangerous footpath.