Trashumantes – Back on the drovers road

It was long due.  At last I had the chance to join the ‘trashumantes’ on their northbound journey, returning to the summer pastures of Teruel. However, the experience of the drovers road this time couldn’t have been more different from my previous southbound migration with them a few years ago. Temperatures of 40C, broken terrain, [...]

Trashumantes

Every November the Spanish semi-nomadic shepherds, the ‘trashumantes’, set off on their 250-mile walking journey across the vast plains of the Meseta. They take 5,000 sheep from the tired summer pastures of Teruel to greener hillsides of in Andalucia.

Arid Aragón

Water shapes the landscape in Spain’s northwest province of Aragón.