ON SAFARI

Narrator
When you have had enough of the city, go for a spin in the countryside! Inka Martí's guide was Pepe Prieto, but anyone can hire a four-wheel drive and go off on safari!

Inka Martí
Pepe, you're a countryman, aren't you, you like the countryside?

Pepe
Yes, when I was a child I developed a great love for nature and the countryside: my family are countryfolk and since I was tiny I would go with them to the countryside. They would sit me up on the mule, and I'd end up spending the whole day in the country. Before, everything was done with manpower. It was man, with his arms, that gathered the products of nature, and took them to the threshing grounds... wheat, barley, oats, you name it.

Inka Martí
What is grown around here? 

Pepe Prieto
Around here are mainly orchards. Mostly oranges and lemons, but there are also many fields with beetroot, tomatoes, onions, peppers, cucumbers and many other vegetables.

Inka Martí
We just went past a farmhouse that was in good condition, when most of them are completely ruined - it would be good if they could be used for rural tourism, wouldn't it?

Pepe Prieto
Absolutely, that would be great, because there aren't many places around here where they do rural tourism, people haven't developed it much and it would be very valuable.

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Inka Martí,
Are those prickly pears?

Pepe Prieto
Prickly pears, that's right. It is a very tasty wild fruit. In Malaga we eat it a lot. We buy them in the afternoon, peel them, pop them onto a plate and put them in the fridge, then the next morning, my wife eats them for breakfast and that's when she most enjoys them.

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Inka Martí
We're here, Pepe, at the Chorro.

Pepe Prieto
That's right, this is the Chorro. See how attractive the King's Path is? It was one of the construction works carried out by Alphonso XII so that he could view right the way along Baitales gorge, which carries water from the swamps up to the barrages here. He visited his little road in person, and from then on it has been known as the 'Caminito del Rey.'

Inka Martí
And it's very narrow, isn't it?

Pepe Prieto
Yes, it's very narrow. It's only about one metre wide. And it crosses the gorge in several places, there's more than one bridge like that. Let's go.

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