Las Negras & San Pedro, Cabo de Gata, Spain 2020
This is another episode from my travel-art-project which was happening almost 3 years ago when I was travelling from Croatia to Morocco & back by my small Renault Twingo 1. Unfortunately I have never finished it but I decided that I will definitely do it sooner or later so I'm doing it now...
...I came by boat from Tangier, Morocco to Algeciras, Spain & was immediately driving to Nerja, where I slept 1 night to rest. The day After I visited my host Klaus in Almeria who hosted me on the way to Morocco just for a drink & to give him a small present that I have bought for him in Morocco. Soon I was again driving directly to Las Negras where I planned to spend few days & recharge myself before continuing the travel further home to Croatia.
It was not so quick drive to arrive to Las Negras so I took another rest & used the chance to make few photos. On the photos you can see my vehicle & the stickers of my sponsors - Čisto čišće d.o.o. & Gole Sport. I also stick one sticker on the traffic sign - it was a funny thing to do. Cause this viewpoint was interesting place with a really nice view & I was thinking that usually, in the tourist season many people stop here...
Soon after shooting my Twingo 1 & sponsor stickers I arrived to Las Negras. A new friend that I met in the streets of Castellon de la Plana, when I was going towards Morocco, proposed me to go & visit Las Negras & the special beach San Pedro so I did while returning home & I really liked it!
On the viewpoint there was also this nice piece of art - a mural drew on the ceramic tiles & glued onto the dry stone wall - showing the flora & fauna of nature park Cabo de Gata.
My friend was telling me that in Las Negras there is a free parking place where I can stay as long as I want & that I will be able to meet other travelers who live in a similar way. Also he was telling me about a beautiful beach San Pedro where I will be able to find natural spring water & where the "fake hippies", as he called them, live - a Spanish & a German groups of people who live on this beach & don't like each other. It was really strange for me - this description - so actually I went there with a small prejudice & didn't really have any motivation to meet anyone. My only motive was to spend good time with myself, rest & pick up some drinkable, healthy water.
About both of the places, Las Negras & San Pedro I was already talking in this short vlog.
In this gallery you can see Las Negras from the northern hill above the town where the road leads to San Pedro beach:
On the upper shots you can also see my Twingo 1 & a bit how this parking looked like. My vehicle was the smallest & unfortunately I didn't get much connection with the travelers there. Only with the Austrian couple living in the van parked next to me I connected a bit more... All the others were kind of distant or maybe I was the distant one?!
Finally I decided to go to San Pedro. This name sounded even more attractive cause there's a special sacred psychedelic cactus in Mexico with the same name... So, I started my Twingo 1 & drove it up the Northern hill until I came to a completely wild parking place where even police don't come & where some more vans & trucks were parked & people lived in them. There I parked. I witnessed a lot of broken glass on this place - exactly what my friend from Castellon de la Plana was warning me - there are many cases of braking into the travelers' vehicles especially on these kind of forsaken places. Many travelers are also junkies, liars, thieves, smugglers & drug dealers & are not good choice to trust to! But still, I took my empty bottles, camera & pointed myself on the mountain track towards the beach. I anyway didn't plan to stay overnight so I shouldn't have worried that anyone will touch my car in the daytime. Few curves after I saw this breathtaking beautiful sight:
I just couldn't stop admiring this astonishing sight & my camera kept shooting!
When I arrived to the beach I felt a really special energy & it was a beautiful, warm, sunny day so I decided to have a swim in the sea: https://3speak.tv/watch?v=careassaktart/genudfmn
I saw some people on the beach but I also didn't connect with anyone. I was really not interested in meeting "fake hippies". Only true people I'm interested in meeting! Only real people, honest & sincere with some real life values.
The beach itself is a natural treasure & it has the most important basis for living - drinkable, natural, spring water! There were really people living in various handmade dwellings.
I was also noticing some details on the beach so I made some more photos which I decide not to explain too much & leave you the space to make your own conclusions - check out the galleries:
There were 2 symbols which were dominating the place - the castle ruin & the black pirate flag - which can tell a story in my mind & which I will share now. The castle ruin is a sign of the importance of this place in the past cause who would built a castle in such a place if there's no importance. But the castle itself is a symbol of a certain developed society or civilization who had the knowledge to create such a building. Today you can see the "devolution" cause the castle is a ruin & all around you can see simple dwellings built in a much more primitive ways & the pirate flag really symbolizes the destruction & death, absolutely nothing positive even thou today is a joke & kind of liberty sign but I would never ever use a pirate flag to express my own liberty! Of course, most likely the people who lived there at the moment where I visited the place, were much more advanced than the people who built the castle. Most likely cause of the modern way of life these nowadays, advanced people have chosen to escape that modern life & came here to live in this primitive free day without traffic, noise & obligations... Still, pirate flag is totally wrong choice!
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My mom used to have Renault Twingo. A purple one. Maaan, it was such a tiny toy car... :D
It's amazing car!