Roque del Faro - El Tablado - Franceses

In Roque del Faro, follow the signpost „El Tablado“, cross the main road LP-1, and go down a dirt path. After a hairpin bend, turn onto a dirt track and follow further signposts „El Tablado“ (yellow markings). The descent leads through ancient laurel forest, is well signposted, and soon runs along an idyllic footpath. After a steep section, the path crosses a stream in the forest and then leads to a ridge on its left side. High above a steep drop into the Barranco de los Hombres, you reach a dirt track that continues further down the valley. Further down, you enter open heathland and later turn left to reach a gorge forest. Behind it, you come to a road, which you leave again after a few meters to continue descending to the right on an old stone path running high above the barranco towards El Tablado (yellow markings). The view of the sea opens up, and the road is crossed twice more during the descent before crossing it just above the village and descending on a stone path into the village. In El Tablado, you reach a signposted fork where an arrow points to the right („Franceses/Barlovento“), which you follow.

Now, you proceed high above the coast initially horizontally to the east, until the view opens onto the hamlet of La Fajana directly on the sea, and the path leads down in tight hairpin bends into the bottom of the Barranco de Los Hombres. Marked in red, it then climbs back up on the other side in tight bends towards Franceses. Further up, you reach a road and must follow it over two double hairpins before a sign „Franceses“ points right, and you ascend again on a stone path. At a signposted fork, follow the signboard „Roque del Faro“ to the right. From here, marked in yellow again, it initially goes uphill on a concrete track, soon through a hollow way between some houses. You briefly touch a road and continue steeply uphill following yellow markings. Through dense tree heath, the route climbs higher on an old pull path. After a long ascent, you enter the laurel forest again, and the path crosses the main road (LP-1) after a double curve. Behind it, a stone path continues uphill through the forest. Further up, you reach open terrain, and the path flattens. At a fork, follow a signpost „Roque del Faro“ to the right and slightly downhill. Soon, it ascends again, the path crosses a gravel track and later merges into a road you follow right up to the main road. You cross it and then take a dirt track to the right (signpost „Roque del Faro“). Shortly afterward, sharply turn left onto a footpath. This path leads diagonally down into a valley and back up to the road on the other side. Finally, you cross the LP-1 again, follow a pull path, and then turn right in the dense forest onto an old stone path leading back to the starting point.