Sella Walks - stunning views and easy walking in Mediterranean Spain 
The "Coll el Comptador", a mountain pass between Sella and the village of Benimantell, is where, supposedly, shepherds used a narrow path to count off their flocks.  We start at the Font de lŽArc, to which we are driven, and start off up the valley towards el Comptador, taking a right hand track before the steep climb and then a smaller track up through woods and past a spring to a series of abandoned agricultural terraces. From there the track descends through pine woods  to a group of isolated country houses, the main Sella-Finestrat track and finally the climbing area of the Arc. Where we are collected.

The track rises gently from The Font de lŽArc

Almond blossom time higher up the vally. Mid February

   

Looking back down the valley towards Sella

Picnic lunch outside an abandoned farmhouse

   

The narrower track rises  - but not too steeply

Springs like this are looked after by the shepherds

   

The descent from the Goleró pass

Farmed land and the view back home into the sun