We leave Ovejuela’s town square on foot to backtrack four kilometres along the access road. This pleasant walk among vegetable gardens and patchwork farms whets our appetite for the long forest path that follows. After we have covered the four kilometres we take the first turning on the right, with a rustic signpost indicating “ Al Chorrito” (To the waterfall). At first the track has many potholes and loose stones. There is no chance of getting lost, since there are no turn-offs or crossroads. Neither does this six-kilometre stretch have any particular scenic interest besides the constant scrubland and scattered pinewoods. Nonetheless, it’s a good idea to take along a pair of binoculars to identify some of the animals that live around here, basically birds, especially the smaller birds like scrubland warblers, leaf warblers and titmice. Wild Boar are hard to spot but the ground is covered with telltale signs of their presence: the disturbed earth where they have been rooting up food.

When we come to the first fork in the track, six kilometres from the road, we need to make sure we take the right-hand track, which climbs gently up among thick heathland of heather, strawberry trees and cistus roses, with scattered pines. One kilometre later we glimpse a dam below in the riverbed and then immediately come to the next fork. Another signpost indicates Al Chorrito to make sure we don’t get lost. We follow this path, which now climbs up the hillside and offers us increasingly stunning views over the valley of the river called Río de los Ángeles. After a tough nine-kilometre trek we come at last to the lookout point over the waterfall, where we seem to be perched in midair over the sheer drop. Make sure you have some room in your camera to take some shots of this spectacular spot. This lookout point, with stone and cement picnic benches and tables, can also be reached along the path that drops down from the nearby Árrago valley, in the district of Sierra de Gata.

To get down to the waterfall itself we need to backtrack a couple of kilometres along the track and take a turning on the right that then drops down to the bottom of the river-carved gorge. The path is somewhat tricky but the view at the end is well worth the effort.

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