Finca La Maroma

36° 50' 37.18'' N, 4° 04' 34.21'' W

Directions to Finca La Maroma

F rom Malaga airport you follow the MA21 towards Malaga city.

Y ou keep to the right hand lane which dips under the MA21 after 3km and turns towards the left, leading you onto the A7 towards Almeria / Mortil. (Don't turn right here or you will be heading for Algeciras, but the junction is well sign posted)

9 km later the A45 to Antquera splits from the A7 via the right-hand lane, but you continue in the middle or laft-hand lane on the A7.

A pproximately 35km later, at junction 272, you leave the A7 for Velez-Malaga keeping to the left hand lane on the slip road. This takes you onto a large roundabout and the second exit will take you into the local shopping center. The fourth exit from the roundabout, counting the entrance to the shopping center as one, will take you onto the road to "Colmenar / Casabermeja / Alhama de Granada" (A335 / A356). You want to remain on this road, rather than follow the signs for Velez-Malaga, which lead into the town centre.

Y ou will pass Velez-Malaga, Trapiche and two large petrol stations on your right and after 9.8km from where you left the motorway there is a sign pointing to the right "Canillas de Aceituno / Sedella / Salares". You follow this sign which takes you left after 300m and right after another 1.4km, then up the hillside for 7.5 kilometers to Canillas de Aceituno. At the small roundabout outside Canillas you take the first exit on the right which takes you onto the bypass (The "no entry" sign refers to the town center). You pass Canillas and continue on the only road towards Sedella.

3 km after the last house of Canillas there is a sign "Bienvenidos a Sedella" and you still remain on the tarmac road here. 2.4km after this sign you will finally be able to see Sedella and there is a sign pointing to the right saying "Los Valverdes/Rubite" and another green sign pointing towards "Finca La Maroma, Apartamentos Rurales". You follow this sign and you will now be on one of the local dust tracks. This is where you should check the reading on your odometer.

A fter a few hundred metres the track takes you through a gap in the hillside and after 900m to a fork, where you bear left (There is a sign "Finca La Maroma" here). 1.3km from the start of the track you reach the next fork and this time you bear right. There is a "Finca La Maroma" sign here, too. The other track is marked "Pasa Arenas" etc, unless the sign has fallen down again.

A nother 2.6km from this fork, 3.9km from the point where you left the tarmac road, there is a small house right by the left side of the track and another track leads to the right, a little up the hillside. This too is marked "Finca La Maroma". After 500m on this track you pass another track to the left and now approach a small farm, which seems to be in the middle of the road. In fact the track continues immediately to its left, dips down the hillside again and we are the first and only house after another 400m.

T he trip takes 75 minutes from the airport. There is a shorter way to Velez-Malaga, but this is more difficult to explain and does not give you quite the same idea of the finca`s location. You will find a hand drawn map of the network of tracks in your apartment and with this you will be able to take the shortcut, which reduces the journey by 15 minutes.

I t is advisable to go by the distances in the directions above rather than follow the signs. These sometimes get moved and it may take a while before we notice.