Following flights into Malaga, you’ll be met and transferred to the magnificent town of Ronda, dramatically perched on the side of the El Tajo gorge.

After bike fitting (if renting) and/or assembly, you’ll hopefully have some time to explore Ronda at your leisure. The old town is a beautiful example of Moorish architecture. Cobbled streets wind between the imposing white walls of palaces and grand residences, clinging to sandstone cliffs. Visit the museum of the infamous bandoleros, follow the history of bullfighting at Ronda’s bullring or relax on one of the many café terraces and watch the world go by in true Andaluz style.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Ascent: 780 Metres Approx.

After breakfast, you’ll start your adventure by crossing the famous New Bridge, where you’ll enjoy a completely different view of the Tajo before continuing your descent along the cliffs, winding through pines on a narrow sandstone trail. The views of Ronda from the clifftop are unforgettable in the morning light.

The trail quickly drops down to the banks of the Guadiaro River, where the first major climb will take you up to a limestone plateau and the Ermita de Montejaque. The views of the Grazalema mountains are breathtaking, as is the descent along narrow, broom-lined trails that lead you deep into the Guadiaro Valley and to the Cueva del Gato (Cat’s Cave). Here, you can take a break for lunch. Many take the opportunity to cool off with a dip in the refreshing natural pools fed by this impressive resurgence cave.

After a relaxed lunch, it’s back on the bikes for an adrenaline-filled afternoon riding the fast, flowing trails of the Guadiaro, with one thrilling section after another, all framed by towering limestone peaks.

There are plenty of options for the afternoon: climb and descend incredible trails until you can’t ride anymore, or simply unwind back at the hotel. Jimera de Líbar, your home for the night, is a beautiful and historic white village clinging to the valley hillside, offering charming rural accommodation and delicious local produce to help you refuel.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Ascent: 685 Metres Approx.

After breakfast we gently ease you into the day by sliding into snaking trails that glide down the valley, taking in the odd climb that’ll set you up for the next trail. Passing the pretty hillside village of Cortes de la Frontera you’ll traverse through beautiful scenery, before tackling the climb of the day up above 1000metres to a mountain ridge and the dramatically situated village of Gaucin.

Gaucin is known as ‘El Balcon de la Sierra’ for good reason! The village looks out across the mountains to the Mediterranean and beyond to the Riff mountains in Morocco. Looking inland, the Serrania de Ronda, the limestone Grazalema range and the vast Alcornocales forest park take centre stage.

Following lunch, entering the beautiful densely-forested Los Alcornocales Natural Park, you may see wild boar, deer or griffon vultures and a variety of eagles soaring on thermals overhead.

The series of trails that drop into the bottom of the valley are fun-filled and twist and wind through the forest with ease. You’ll ride onto Gaucin for your overnight stay.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Ascent: 1040 Metres Approx.

After breakfast, you’ll say goodbye to your charming hosts and begin your route through the Montes de Gaucín. The magnificent views of the Alcornocales forest park, stretching over endless ridges, fade into the horizon.

A quick and winding ride along a high ridge will prepare you for an incredible 800-meter descent through a pristine forest. You’ll enjoy every moment of the journey until you reach the Mirador Puerto de las Asomadillas, where you can take a break before continuing on to Jimena de la Frontera, where today’s stage will end.

This beautiful white village, perched on a hill and crowned by a magnificent Moorish castle, offers spectacular views of the surrounding sierras. A steep climb to the castle leads to a fun rocky descent into the lush river valley, where you’ll pass by 10th-century water mills and an 18th-century artillery factory that produced cannonballs for the Spanish Armada.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Ascent: 435 Metres Approx.

You’ll be picked up in the morning and transferred to the Straits of Gibraltar. From here, it’s a truly stunning ride taking you from a view point above the Straits on a thrilling traverse. You’ll twist and dip and then descend dramatically past ancient mills to the shores at the tiny fishing village at Guadalmesi, with many a small cove for a refreshing dip.

It’s a brilliant spot for a relaxing refuel and maybe a chance to try the delicious local air-cured tuna among other delicacies! A tranquil siesta will set you up to complete your journey as you take a beautiful trail along the shores of the Straits, past small coves, fishermen and isolated smallholdings. The views are magnificent looking across to Morocco’s Rif Mountains and the imposing Jebel Musa Mountain.

A range of undulating fast tracks will take you along the coast and all the way to your accommodation. Some may want to have one last refreshing swim before heading into the setting sun towards Tarifa, the most southerly point of mainland Europe. Tarifa is a beautiful fishing town perched on the edge of Europe. The Moors, who left their mark, especially in its architecture, once ruled this strategically located town. The winding cobbled streets leading to tiny flower-filled squares are a joy to wonder around. A great place to enjoy the last two evenings of the tour.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Ascent: 520 Metres Approx.

You’ll start your route directly from Tarifa, embarking on a fantastic traverse through the southern part of the Alcornocales forest. Tarifa is the home base of Skedaddle España, and this route will take you through some of the best trails in the area, covering diverse landscapes from dense forests to the Atlantic coast.

Following an undulating trail you’ll pick up the route of the GR7, a long distance trek that stretches from the most southern tip of mainland Europe at Tarifa, all the way to Athens! You’ll cruise past the imposing Sierra del Nino and into a long swooping descent to the splendidly situated hamlet of Saladavieja. It sits above the plains of La Janda, once a huge freshwater lake, that stretches miles into the distance. The wetlands are now a haven for birds migrating between Europe and Africa.

At the head of the Jara Valley you’ll be rewarded with the first views of the Atlantic and across to the crescent bay of Tangiers in Morocco. Skirting beneath the Sierra de Fates views of the ocean open up as you pass bubbling streams to try some tasty trails that lead down to the wild Atlantic where you can lunch beneath Umbrella Pines. Post lunch, you’ll ride along La Pena hillside to take on thrilling trails and then along the Atlantic coastline back to Tarifa.

• Meals: Breakfast

Time to pack those bags for the last time before getting on the road to the airport for your flights home.