![]() ![]() The authorities had promised many times to restore the path, it was finally undertaken and reopened on on 28 March 2015. A zip line was set up by local mountaineers in the 2000s to help those that continued to walk the path and there were more fatal falls. There were several fatal falls in the 1990s. This did not stop the adventurous and the foolhardy and it became known as 'the most dangerous path in the world' or even the 'walk of death'. By the 1980s the path had fallen into disrepair and was closed to the public. The path, originally built as workmen's access around 1905, was improved and opened to the public in 1921 by King Alfonso XXIII hence the name the Kings little path. A highlight is the steel suspension bridge with an open grid decking across the gorge, just next to the original emblematic aqueduct bridge. In places the path is only one metre wide, hanging to the cliff face. ![]() The famous boardwalk sections are constructed with wooden slatted transverse planks and a simple 1.2m-high three-wire guard rail. The the route and design of the new path keeping as closely as possible to the old 1921 path. The 'new' Caminito del Rey was re-constructed and reopened to the public in 2015. ![]() The Caminito del Rey is a cliff-side path hanging 100m above the waters of the river Guadalhorce reservoir, as it runs through the famous beauty spot El Chorro Gorge, near the villages of El Chorro in Alora and, Ardales, about 25 km inland from Malaga city. ![]()
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