Recreation and outdoor activities include wonderful walking along undiscovered and unlimited tracks, ornithology, horse-riding, wild flowers, fishing, cycling and so on. Fishing is readily available in the local embolses and charcas, and livenses are easily obtainable locally. In summer the local “charca del Cura” near the village is a popular swimming place with the local families. Guides for weekend horse tiding excursions into the wilderness are available. The tracks are innumerable.

The area is second to none in its intriguing wealth of nature. It is a wonderland for lovers of wild flowers in spring, lavender, wild rosemary, broom, thyme, rock rose, honeysuckle, to mention but a few. Extremadura landscape is known for the oak forests, boasting four different varieties. The alcornoque or cork oaks are numerous, their gnarled trunks being harvested every few years, revealing a beautiful burnt orange colour beneath, which will in time yield the new cork. The holm oak or acorn oak is extremely prolific, providing the acorn feed for the famous black pigs. Although Extremadura is renowned for its hot summers, it is a very dry, non-humid climate. Due to the enormous amount of forestation, the air is very clean and fresh.

Here we have an ornithologist’s paradise, with many exotic migratory and native birds, the eagles, hawks, buzzards, vultures and other birds of prey are daily sights. In the forests are wild boar, wild cat, mink, foxes, hares and many others, living their lives in the wild sierras away from man’s intervention.

The Golden Triangle of Caceres, Merida and Trujillo is famed for its discoverers, history and culture. The landscape is dotted with castles and is also famous for the arrival of great numbers of storks, returning to their nests at the beginning of the year. Almost every tower, roof, steeple or pinnacle is topped by a nest.