Rain Forests

My girlfriend and I try to enjoy our holidays, not only by resting every day on a beach, but also by participating in active tourism, mainly in forests. There are many active tourism companies in Spain and the number of these is growing very fast due to the prosperous economic situation that the country has now. This summer we visited a part of southern Spain, Cadiz. Cadiz has a great range of climates because of its many beautiful landscapes and its close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. The majority of the income in Cadiz comes from tourism and wind power installations.
We spent three days at the Grazalema Natural Park. This park is a rain forest that, due to its location near the ocean and its high altitude, receives twice the amount of rain as the Pyrenees mountains, in the north of the country. The clouds that come from the Athlantic ocean collide with Grazalema's mountains, so a great amount of rain falls in this zone. However, this rainfall occurs during autumn and spring, with a dry and hot summer. The soil is made of gypsum, so all the rainfall infiltrates the subsoil, so there are low caudal rivers.
We found an active tourism company in the Grazalema village and practiced some activities in the park. The main character of the park is a type of fir called 'Pinsapo'. This tree is an endemic species, so it is very protected by our government and the park only admits visitors with a qualified guide.
After that, we spent a day riding our bikes along a rehabilitated way that belongs to a network of old railways. Many of these railways don't get used anymore, and our government is rehabilitating this public infrastructure with the aim of reinforcing and helping rural areass with tourism revenues. The main hook of the way we did is the forty tunnels that cover sixty kilometers of the trail, making the temperature fluctuate between 20 and 35 degrees Celsius.