"TRAVELLER, THERE IS NO PATH..." WROTE MACHADO. HE CERTAINLY DID NOT MEAN MALAGA, BECAUSE HERE, THROUGHOUT THE PROVINCE, THERE ARE ENDLESS PATHS TO BE DISCOVERED. ALL OF THEN SUITABLE FOR THE QUIESTEST AND CONTEMPLATIVE SPORT OF ALL: TREKKING.

This is a sport in which the winner is always oneself. Trekking is, mainly walking through rural or mountains areas, linking villages and valleys, crossing rivers and lanes, always through specified paths, a return to the traditional connection networks.
Trekking is always practised in direct contact with nature, with the healthy aim to contribute to the conservation and protection of the environment. At the same time, it allows us to tranquility become acquainted with a place and its people, its artistic, natural and ethnographic heritage. In short, it is a diferent way to get away.

Origins of trekking.
Its beginnings place us in France, after World War II. Trekking was conceived there as a different way of "liberation". People wanted to get away from war events and their terrible consequences, and in the countryside they found the ideal place to "disconnect" from that blood stained world.
Countries such as Germany, Holland, Switzerland or Belgium imported it later to promote tourism in their respective mountain areas. In Spain it came through Catalonia at the end of the 60's and from there it spread unevenly to other regions. The Spanish Mountain Federation, today the Spanish Federation of Mountain Sport and Climbing (FEDME), assumed this new sport activity, born in the mountaineering environment, and called it trekking.

The main difference with mountaineering was that it used beacon marked paths.
At present, Spain has little over 14.000 km. of marked ptahs. A tiny amount in comparison with countries such as Germany (with 210.000 km.) France (with 172.000 km.) or Switzerland (with 50.000 km.), in spite of the fact that the latter is a much smaller country.

Trekking has many natural spaces in Málaga, perfectly adapted.