Everything you need to know
Day trip details
To see current prices for each rate (adults, children, students and infants), select your preferred date in the booking calendar. The price shown in the calendar is always the final price.
Check the available days and times directly in the booking calendar: it updates in real time according to the season.
There are three pick-up points in central Seville. The one you choose is also where the day ends.
C. Trajano 6, Casco Antiguo, 41001 Seville · View on Google Maps
C. Zaragoza 1, Casco Antiguo, 41001 Seville · View on Google Maps
C. Rastro 12A, 41003 Seville · View on Google Maps
Not every pick-up point is available on every date: the booking calendar shows which ones you can choose and the exact time. We recommend arriving with time to spare.
Children under 8 are not admitted. This is a rule of the Caminito itself, not ours, and it is applied at the entrance.
The walkway is pinned to a vertical cliff around 100 metres above the river, with open sections and a suspension bridge. If heights are a problem for you, this is not the day trip to choose.
The route is one way and cannot be turned back on once started. It is not suitable for anyone with reduced mobility, and pushchairs cannot be used.
Round-trip transport from Seville and a professional guide for the day.
Admission to the Caminito del Rey.
Food and drink are not included. After the walk the transport takes the group to a restaurant in the area, where you eat at your own expense.
The order of the day and the exact timings depend on the entry slot assigned to the group.
Closed shoes with a grip. Sandals and smooth soles are a bad idea on a wooden walkway, and some operators refuse entry with open footwear.
Bring water. There is nowhere to buy any once you are on the route, and the gorge holds the heat.
Sun protection and a hat in summer: much of the walk is exposed. A windproof layer at any time of year, because the gorge funnels wind.
Use a backpack rather than a shoulder bag, and keep your hands free. Phones are dropped into the gorge every week.
The route is one way, so anything you leave behind stays behind.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the activity. You can cancel from the confirmation email you receive when you book.
Ways to visit
Choose how you visit
Everything on this page describes the shared day trip. The same visit is also sold in other formats, each with its own group size, languages and price, and every one of them is booked right here.
Shared day trip
From €99per adult
- GroupRegular group
- LanguagesEN / ES / FR / IT, chosen when you book
The full day exactly as this page describes it, in a regular group, with transport from Seville and admission to the walkway.
Check datesPrivate group
From €545per group
- GroupYour party only
- LanguagesEN / ES / FR / IT, chosen when you book
The same day for your party alone, with a guide for your group only, priced per group rather than per person. It leaves from the same points in central Seville.
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A metre-wide walkway, a hundred metres up
The Caminito del Rey was built for hydroelectric workers at the start of the twentieth century, fell apart over decades of neglect, and spent years with a reputation as the most dangerous footpath in Europe. Rebuilt and reopened in 2015, it is now a walk anyone reasonably fit can do, and it is still extraordinary.
Into the province of Malaga
The drive from Seville takes about two hours, inland and north through olive country towards the reservoirs of the Guadalhorce. The route starts near Ardales and comes out at El Chorro, which is why it can only be walked in one direction.
The Gaitanes gorge
The path runs roughly seven kilometres in all, of which about three are the walkway itself, bolted to the vertical wall of the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes. In places it is a metre wide, with the Guadalhorce river a hundred metres directly below and the rusted remains of the original 1905 path still visible underneath the new one.
The bridge and the way out
The route crosses the gorge on a suspension bridge near its narrowest point, then opens out towards the reservoir. Along the way there are fossil ammonites set into the rock face, left from when all of this was seabed.
Lunch, and the road back
At the end of the walk the transport picks the group up and takes it to a restaurant nearby, where lunch is at your own expense. From there it is the drive back to Seville.
Important: the order and format of the route may vary depending on the time of year, the weather, road conditions and each town’s local holidays. Your guide will organize the day in whatever way works best for the group.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Children under 8 cannot enter the Caminito del Rey. It is a rule of the site itself and it is checked at the gate, so please do not book for a younger child.
No. The walkway was completely rebuilt and reopened in 2015, and it is railed the whole way. What it is, unavoidably, is high and exposed, so the question to ask yourself is about heights rather than about safety.
Then think carefully. The walkway hangs from a vertical wall about 100 metres above the river, some sections have a glass floor panel, and once you start there is no way back: the route is one way. Plenty of people with mild vertigo manage it by keeping to the inside; anyone with a real fear should choose another day trip.
Roughly seven kilometres in total, of which about three are the cliff walkway and the rest are access paths. Most people take between two and three hours, at an easy pace and with plenty of stops.
Because the entry slot is fixed by the Caminito, not by us, and it moves with availability. The drive is about two hours each way, the walk takes two to three, and the rest depends on the time the group is given.
No. After the walk the transport takes the group to a restaurant in the area, where you order and pay for yourself. There is nowhere to buy food on the route itself, so bring water.
Spanish, English, French and Italian. You choose when you book. Usually the guide runs the day in one language, although it is sometimes run in two at once, with the guide alternating between them.
From central Seville. There are three pick-up points and the booking calendar shows which ones are available on your date. The pick-up point is also the drop-off point.
Yes, round trip. You travel in a comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle, van, minibus or coach, depending on how many travelers have booked for that date. Some have a toilet on board; if yours does not, you can ask your guide to stop at a service area.
It depends on the bookings for each date, and groups are usually small. In high season the group is split into two or more subgroups: as a rule, groups are no larger than 30 people. If you would rather not share the vehicle with anyone, you can book it as a private group.
No, and nobody can. The Caminito is one way, north to south, from Ardales to El Chorro. It is too narrow for two-way traffic.
No. There are steps, uneven surfaces, narrow sections and no way to turn back, and pushchairs and wheelchairs cannot be used on the walkway.
The Caminito closes in high winds or storms, on the decision of the site. If that happens the booking is rescheduled or refunded rather than lost.
Yes. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Planning your visit to the Caminito del Rey
Practical questions about the walkway itself, useful background before you travel.
A walkway pinned to the walls of the Gaitanes gorge in Malaga province, built between 1901 and 1905 so that hydroelectric workers could move between two dams. It was never meant for visitors. When the concrete crumbled it became a scramble along bare girders, and it closed after a series of deaths.
Because Alfonso XIII walked it in 1921, on his way to inaugurate the Conde de Guadalhorce dam. The name stuck. In Spanish it is a diminutive, El Caminito, the little path, which is a fair description of something a metre wide.
Restoration work began in 2014 and the new walkway opened in 2015, built above the old one rather than on top of it. You can still see the original 1905 concrete hanging below your feet in several places, which is the best argument for the rebuild.
The gorge the path runs through: a limestone canyon up to 700 metres deep and, at its narrowest, around 10 metres wide, cut by the Guadalhorce river. It is a protected natural area and a nesting site for griffon vultures, which you will very likely see circling.
Yes. The limestone was laid down on a seabed in the Jurassic, and ammonites the size of a hand are visible in the walls beside the walkway. Nobody moves them and nobody needs to point them out twice.
Regularly. The site admits a limited number of visitors per half-hour slot and weekends in spring and autumn go weeks in advance. A small number of tickets are held back for the gate each day, but queuing for those means arriving very early.
About 180 kilometres, or two hours by road. It sits inland in Malaga province, roughly halfway between Seville and Malaga city.
Spring and autumn. The gorge holds heat in July and August and there is almost no shade on the walkway. Winter is fine and quiet, but the site closes in high wind, which is more likely then.
