ROUTE » The route begins and ends at the crossroads of the paths called Camí del Mas d’en Berta and Carretera de les Arenes, preferably in clockwise fashion.
After walking along the highway some 200 metres, you take the traditional livestock tracks which were used of old to herd livestock to the high or low mountain pasturelands, depending on the season.
These tracks, which are lined with dry stone walls, are one of the jewels of Cap de Creus’s popular and civil architecture.
Along the way you can admire the area’s traditional crop, the olive, from which first-rate oil is drawn as a result of the weather conditions and the quality of the land.
About halfway through the route, you can choose to follow the path that runs down to Trencada stream, or continue through the Mediterranean wilderness of the natural park until you reach the Can Ponac sands, where sand was once strip-mined, and which currently serves as a water collection point for fire prevention purposes. It also serves as a drinking spot for the area’s fauna, including wild boars or the fox, as well as other mammal and bird species.
Continuing down this trail you will pass close by the Mas d’en Berta farmhouse, located in the midst of a natural meadow, and a little farther down you will come across Mas Pairet, which has been inhabited until recently. Both farmhouses brought life to the valley with the growing of olives and subsistence stockbreeding.
This trail takes you back to the start of the route, at the crossroads with the Carretera de les Arenes.
APPROXIMATE DURATION » Option A. 2 hours 30 minutes | Option B. 3 hours 20 minutes
DIFFICULTY » Medium
PLACES OF INTEREST » Traditional olives, reservoir, stone pine and holm-oak woods, traditional farmhouses