Orgiva – Beneficio – Hippies Living Up A Mountain in a Forest 🙂
Thursday 4th May
We have finally made it to Orgiva now and it really is a beautifull town surrounded by the mountains in Granada. Everyone here is very friendly (except the police if you park your truck in the wrong place..lol) and the price of beer and baccy is pretty cheap 🙂 We just got 1 litre bottles of beer for 0.67 cents !! and Pueblo baccy is only 5 euros 🙂 We have managed to get the direction to one of the travellers sites here which is called Beneficio. It is right up in the mountain overlooking the town !!
The road into it was really crazy..we felt like the truck was gonny go over the side at one point but we made it there in one piece 🙂 It really is an amazing place with a couple of hundred people living in the woods. They have built some amazing homes here and the scenery is amazing 🙂
Taken from a website i cant remember the name of…!!
“On the slopes of the Alpujarra of Granada , far from civilization, is Benefic, one of the oldest hippie communes in Europe.There is no sign that indicates its situation along the way, nor is it indicated on any map, only word of mouth makes it possible to reach the Spanish hippie paradise. Granada is home to the largest and oldest community in Spain. In the late 70’s from Ibiza, the first hippies arrived to the Alpujarra. Among them were John and Marion, the two Englishmen who created this community. These English “liberated the land”, what in hippie language means to buy it and make it available to all. They got it with all donations.”
We could only stayed for a few days though because we found out our friend was parked up at the other travellers site and we wanted to catch up with him as he waas helping us find somewhere quiete to park up for the summer. 🙂 So we parted company with the lovelly Jo and Yelly and headed off to Los Cigaronnes 🙂
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