Things to see and do. Almeria has 10 golf courses and some of the best beaches in Spain.

Marina Golf Mojacar course, is the new and exiting Levante Alemeriense golf course, surrounded by mediterranian seas, between Garrucha and Mojacar, with wonderful views from relaxing ocean views to colourful patches of laboured landscapes. With 18 holes, 72 Pair, in the "Marina de la Torre" zone. Ramón Espinosa´s golf course design includes three lakes strategically situated giving you a comfortable environment of peaceful and delighful surroundings having a different view from one hole to the other making the game more challenging in order for you to use your complete set of clubs.

The Valle del Este 18-hole golf course has been carefully designed to combine holes that represent a real challenge to the player, with other less strenuous holes.The golf course has been designed by José Canales, paying careful attention to every detail and integrating the course into the surrounding landscape by making use of indigenous vegetation. The course design and setting make it quite spectacular. The tees are particularly noteworthy, positioned on small raised platforms surrounded by volcanic rock, as well as the wide, generous fairways. All in all, a real challenge for players of all levels

Desert Springs. This 18 hole par 6173 yards, par 72 course was opened in 2002 and designed by Peter McEvoy. Situated between Cuevas del Almanzora and the coast and built to full USPGA specifications this is a challenging and interesting course and is Europe’s only desert course modelled on famous desert course of Arizona. There is practice green and driving range. This is semi private course that welcomes green fee paying players. There is also a restaurant, bar and other sporting facilities.

Cortijo Grande the current 9 hole golf course with its majestic backdrop of orange groves, almonds, fig and olive trees is truly breathtaking. Water from an underground volcanic lake, the valley has been an agricultural paradise for several centuries. Gareth Edwards is our resident PGA Professional. He holds a diploma in sports psychology and specialises in 9-hole playing lessons (€70). He can offer advice & tips on all areas of your game from driving to putting. Individual tuition is available at €25 per ½ hour or €125 for 6 ½ hour lessons (with one lesson free).

Dinning Out    

If you want to have a drink then you can go to one of the quiet little bars and sit outside on the terrace by the sea. Or if its laughter and music you're looking for, then your needs will be catered for in one of the Mojacar pubs. There's a splendid choice too, for food. A local dish in one of the many typical bars may tempt you as might a more international menu on offer in one of the restaurants. What ever you choose, you enjoy your meal.

Mini Hollywood (now Oyasis), Theme Park, Tabernas (Carretera Nacional 340)

In the incredible landscape of Tabernas desert, this Western City, remerbers you the 'Wild Far West'. Wonderful shows everyday except mondays. At 12 and 17 h. Some of the movies that were shot here are legendary: Sergio Leone's 'Dollars' trilogy ('A Fistful of Dollars', 'For a Few Dollars More' and 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly') starring Clint Eastwood as the Man with No Name, 'Django' with Franco Nero, the sequels to which never seemed to end... over a hundred titles were at least partially filmed in these dusty streets. Almería was also used as a location for other film genres after the sixties (Patton, The Wind and the Lion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...) but it was the spaghetti-western that really defined the relationship between the province and the film industry.
 

Coastline

The Mojacan coast has many different facets.

There are seventeen kilometres of caves and open beaches. Twelve of these beaches are virgin and the remaining five, which stretch from the Hotel Indalo to the Rambla de la Granatilla, are reserved for nude bathing.
Coast line Mojacar


The coast of Mojacar which adjoins Carboneras is very steep. The foothills of the Sierra Cabrera stand in the warm waters of the Mediterranean caves. Beautiful caves of fine sand, hidden, intimate and often difficult to reach line the coast, for eight kilometres one after the other. "E1 Sombrerico" is one of the oldest caves, one and a half kilometres long and is situated in a small bay in front of a rock. This rock serves as a break water and is formed like a Mexican sombrero which explains the reason for its name. Here in this retreat, naturalists discover true paradise.

Following the coast line round to Mojacar you then encounter the Macenas beach. On the headland facing west, the only existing building is a look-out post, dating from the seventeenth century. After the Macenas beach, the sand extends for many kilometres, bordered on the one side by what will be the future ,Paseo Maritimo, and on the other by white houses, hotels and apartment blocks which have steadily grown in recent years in the area known as Playa de Mojacar.