Castillo De Javier and Foz De Lumbier

I went out for a drive on sunday and we were told that the coast would be wet and windy so we went inland to a castle we were told about, it is very close to the work site and it was a quick drive, wehn we arrived I was intrigued at the small size of the so called castle and when walking up to it it was apparent it wasn't a real castle and was tiny and probably a rich mans garden ornament. We decided not to go inside as they were charging money for it, we left feeling cheated but isn't this all the same with most attractions. We then headed for the large river gorge which is directly across from the site and we drove to the main car park and found we had to walk along a nice road to the actual gorge, it was very interesting to find that the route was originally a train track, the first actual electric train in spain and a could of tunnels had been blasted through the cliffs to allow the trains access. the cliffs are very impressive and maybe up to 300 meters tall, the cliffs were also full of nesting birds, many different species, typical cliff birds, Jackdaws and martins but this is a special site for the amount of nesting Vultures, there were at least 10 pairs of nesting Griffon Vultures but without my bins i couldn't identify is there were any lammergiers or other smaller species, it was spectacular and well worth the trip, we had to walk for about 3Km out and then 3 Km back wich took us about 1 1/2 hours, a really nice end of the day-

Crappy fake castle




Amazing vulture display on the cliffs




Fantastic Cliffs along the Gorge