Leisure:
Orgiva is a small market town population 5,000 with a selection of good restaurants and tapas bars, a pizzeria and interesting people to watch, read driving over Lemons! There are many pavement tapas cafes which are filled with a variety of interesting mix of tourists and locals. There is a lively weekly market where many people descend on the town from the surrounding villages to buy and sell anything from local vegetables to hippie art. This is one of the few remaining areas of Spain where you can get free tapas with every drink.
Within the town there are a few small supermarkets, one with a good selection of British foods, chemists, banks and health food shops cater for most needs. Larger choices of hypermarkets/shops are available in the nearby coastal resort of Motril, 30 minutes. Orgiva also contains a very good language school. In the centre of Orgiva there is a Beautiful Baroque 16th century parish church.Orgiva is a great centre from which to explore the higher Alpujarras.
Transport and Area:
Malaga Airport is approximately 2 hours drive away. Granada airport is 1hr 15 mins Ryaniar now fly from Stansted and liverpool direct to Granada. Almeria is 2 hours and no-frills airlines fly here also. Car hire is recommended as one of the things which is very special in the Alpujarras is the topography, geology and scenic beauty of it all. There are not too many places in the world that descend from over 4000 metres to sea level over a distance of just 50 km. From the snows of the highest mountains in Spain (Sierra Nevada) to the Mediterranean Sea. This is what creates the micro-climates and the diversity of vegetation from semi tropical plants on the coast, through olive, almond, orange, grapes to cherry, chestnut, walnut to pines and then just bare 'lunar' rock. And it's very beautiful, cleanest air in Europe (the stars at night are amazing). The nearest coastal town of Salobrena (35 minutes) has a large safe beach and good restaurants. Airport pickups can be arranged.
