Pinto had built a cross in thanks for a safe landing and it is pretty elaborate, plastered, painted and has a finely detailed cross made from other smaller crosses which are in turn made from smaller crosses. Felix’s cross is a pile of rocks with some sticks to make a cross. It’s not ineffective, he just didn’t invest in it in the way Pinto did. I have no idea by the way who Felix was, if anyone, of why the cross is there.

You start, as ever with a lot of these walks in Ingenio Square, named after the old Moorish ruling family’s house (pictured) which is now a factory producing “cane honey”- something like golden syrup. Ingenio has a lot of meanings from ingenious to machine, manufacturing or factory (more or less). And you drop down to the riverbed as you do for Pinto. For Pinto you walk downstream until you see this detailed sign where you leave the riverbed and the fun starts. This was a walk upriver but I rejoined it downstream at the end of the walk at the same rock and then walked back up to town.

I think I’m developing a fear of heights. The climbs up to both Pinto and Felix, broadly going up their northern sides is rocky, thin and you often have a drop on your left hand side. If not always a sheer drop, then somewhere you don’t want to be. I think this is heightened because I am on my own, but anyway, I’ll be doing the opposite from now on which is to walk up the southern sides where, even though it is a tough walk, is more of a walk than a climb.

It was another lovely thing to do though, and I’ll do it again from the other way. These are some of the views you see when you walk up to La Cruz de Felix