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The Alpujarras are home to a wide range of leisure activities. Besides walking and pottery/painting courses you could enjoy the fantastic hills, mountains and valleys of the Alpujarras on horse back. There are a few horse riding schools which offer day trips and longer for beginners and experienced riders. This is also the case for mountain biking, rock climbing, canyoning and sometimes hang-gliding/para-sailing. You could get lucky on the day, but it would obviously be better to organise any of these in advance - just ask!
The cold waters of the rivers flowing out of the mountains are famous for their trout fishing. This applies to all the mountains of Andalucia, but for the High Alpujarra it is mainly the waters above the village of Trevelez, which is only a half hour drive from Casa de Luz.

The ski season is usually from the end of November to the end of April. The resort at the slopes is expensive and mainly heavily booked, but being only 1hr40m away it is easily accessible from the Alpujarras - there are many locals who do this regularly.