Started by visiting Mammouth Caves for a day, drove along the Blue Ridge Parkway (stayed in Maggie Valey), hiked in the Smoky Mountains (4D/3N), camped at Indian Creek Campground (Cherokee Indian Reservation) and visited other sites in the NP, finishing in Cades Cove and Knoxville.
Our hike: Round Bottom/Beech Gap Trailhead ➜ Laurel Gap ➜ Tricorner Knob ➜ Pecks Corner ➜ Enloe Creek ➜ Round Bottom.
☞ Seville/Andalucia ➜ Marrakesh ➜ Ourika Valley-Les Cascades de Setti-Fatma ➜ Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou‌-Ouarzazate-Kasbah Taourirt ➜ Chicago viaDublin.
Fresh mint tea, Marrakesh, June 2015
Rue el Gza, view from Ryad Larrousse, Marrakesh
Majorelle Garden (Yves Saint Laurent home), Marrakesh
23-day trip to Andalucia. We hiked Caminito del Rey just opened after renovation and strolled to Torre del Tajo.
Itinerary
Places were we stayed o/n in orange
Chicago ➜ Malaga  ➜ Cordoba and Granada (by train and bus) ➜ Malaga ➜ El Chorro/Caminito del Rey (by train) ➜ Malaga  (by rental car to Seville) ➜ Setenil de las Bodegas ➜ Ronda ➜ Grazalema ➜ Puerto de las Palomas ➜ Zahara de la Sierra ➜ Ronda ➜ Cueva de la Pileta ➜ Cortes de la Frontera ➜ Parque Natural los Alcornocales ➜ Gaucin ➜ La Linea ➜ ☞ Gibraltar ➜ Tarifa ➜ Bolonia/Baelo Claudia ➜ La Brena y Marismas de Barbate/Torre del Tajo ➜ Cadiz ➜ Jerez de la Frontera ➜ Sanlucar de Barrameda/Parque Nacional de Donana ➜ Seville ➜ ☞ Morocco