I am about to visit Spain to do some road cycling with a group of friends. We are flying to Malaga and we will be staying in Nerja. We have seen some maps and some pictures but its difficult to plan routes not knowing the gradients.
Does anyone have any good advice or maybe a link with some cross sections of the hills? We aim to do about 6-8 hours a day, so we will be averaging about 30km/h. As we have an appartment in Nerja we will not be staying anywhere else. However, we are renting a minibus for the trip.
Not exactly an answer, but have you tried using Google Earth to get a 3D view of the surrounding area? It seems to be covered in reasonably high detail. You can exaggerate the vertical scale up to 3X to visually emphasize the climbs.
My only recollection of the area is riding from Almuñecar (named Sexi by Phoenicians, but not the least bit sexy) to Nérja on the coastal highway. We went through a couple of pitch-black tunnels with storm grates positioned just-so to catch bicycle tyres, while not- particularly-bicycle-friendly Spanish motorists whizzed by. It was nerve-wracking.
www.salite.ch may also have profiles of climbs in the area (the site is entirely in Italian).
www.salite.chmay also have profiles of climbs in the area (the site is entirely in Italian).
Thanks, great link. It has French German, English and Spanish variants so maybe its been updated since you were last there. No matter, great link!
Shows what blind spots one can develop! I'm so used to the site being in Italian (I read it well enough) that I didn't even notice the 4 national flags up top for the other language choices.
