Facilities and Activitives
posted by Jason @ 3:53pm, Thursday 17 January 2008.
Locally, you will find numerous activities including tennis, horse riding, rambling, golf, mountain biking and many watersports, including jetskiing, sailing, windsurfing, kitesurfing, boat trips etc, both on the Mar Menor, where the water is calmer, and the Mediterranean itself.
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The beach at El Mojon, which is just two minutes walk from the house, has been awarded a blue flag, guaranteeing that it is safe and clean with good water quality and facilities. A short stroll further on brings you to a children's play area and beach bar, with static inflatables in the water at peak season. There are a number of local bars and restaurants within five minutes walk, including the excellent Mediterraneo, a busy Spanish fish restaurant right on the beach. There is a small supermarket a short walk away and a Lidl supermarket within five minutes drive. Take a wander along the boardwalk to nearby Torre de la Horadada, which has restaurants, bars and ice cream parlours overlooking the harbour and town square. If you want to explore the countryside on two wheels, bikes can be hired from the Costa Blanca bike shop in Torrevieja. They have a variety of bikes catering for adults and children, as well as child seats, kiddie carts and tandems. All are supplied with helmets and locks. They can offer organised bike tours or suggested routes. Their prices start from 20 euros a day, with three day, five day and seven day packages. Delivery and collection is free of charge and pre-booking during the summer is advisable. |
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The nearby towns of Pilar de la Horada, San Pedro del Pinatar and Lo Pagan have a wide variety of shops, bars and restaurants. For a break from the sun, the cinema at Pilar shows English language films at the weekend and the shopping complex at Dos Mares has a bowling alley.
The house is within a twenty minute drive of three excellent golf courses - Las Ramblas, Campoamor and Villa Martin – and the famous La Manga Golf and Country Club is only half an hour away. For further details on each course, go to www.golfcostablanca.biz
Fifteen minutes up the coast is Torrevieja, a very popular tourist destination with plenty to keep boredom at bay, including go-karting, banana boating, scuba diving, boat trips, 4-wheel drive safaris, street markets, funfairs and Aquapolis, one of the largest water parks on the Costa Blanca.
Inland, on the outskirts of Murcia City, you will find Terra Natura, a wildlife park, which is open all year round, and Aqua Natura, a water park open from the beginning of June to the end of September. Torrevieja also has a water park, Aquapolis, open from early June to mid September. Further north, towards Alicante, there is a safari park at Santa Pola and, about an hour’s drive away at Benidorm, you will find the Aqualandia water park, Mundo Mar sea life park and Spain’s biggest theme park – Terra Mitica.
The ancient city of Cartagena, with its Roman amphitheatre and wide selection of modern shops, bars and restaurants, lies about 30 minutes south, while Murcia City, capital of the province, with its fine Baroque Cathedral, University and wonderful architecture is a similar distance to the east.
The coves, beaches and fossilized dunes of Calblanque National Park are 40 minutes south, whilst the mountains of Sierra de Espuna lie an hour’s drive east.
