We didn’t plan to… but… we ended in El Rocío.
We just looked for a cheap and nice camping next to the Doñana National Park… and… we ended in El Rocío.
Honestly, for us “El Rocío” is a synonym of “sensational press” and of type of people we’re not interested in at all. Once a year, during 1 week in May, there is a huge peregrination of devotes towards El Rocío and sensational press is full of pictures from all the famous people from Andalucía that attends it: people like La Pantoja, TV journalists, bullfighters, models, etc.
So, honestly, we were a bit dramatic, like “Oh, what are we doing here? How did that happen to us?”. We were a bit scared.
But, as we all know, one can have a mental image totally distorted from the reality.
And that was our story: we discovered a magic place that makes you travel to the past, to the wild-wild west, to the heart of the horse-style villages, to the heart of Doñana… We definitely fall in love with El Rocio and we want to make you also love it with this photo diary. Enjoy!
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Such a beautiful place. I would like to buy some of those dresses too..
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Wow amazing pictures and El Rocho looks a really wild-wild-west location!! Anyway I have been to Tupiza (Bolivia); this city and area is similar to El Rocho, take a look some picture on google if you like!! thanks for sharing
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Wow Tupiza is awesome!!!! Thanks for the recommendation! I will try not to miss it whenever I go to Bolivia 🙂
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I love that photo of all the dresses! Are they for flamenco dancing, or am I completely mistaken? Sometimes it’s nice to go to places that are a little different from your ‘normal’ destination!
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Yes! They’re the typical dress of South Spain for the parties, ferias, “sevillanas” dancing! You can use it for dancing too, of course! :DDDD
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Beautiful pictures, seems like a quaint little place!
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So you can rent those costumes for the pictures or are they given free? Seems like a nice photo opp place. 🙂
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This is the typical costum of south spain for special days (Feria, etc). That was a shop actually. I only got it to put it over me for the pic hehe
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Wow, those buildings are beautiful. You got some wonder photos on your trip! Camping seems like a great idea when touring Spain. Glad to hear you ended up having a magical time in El Rocio.
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Amazing Andalucian delights! I love the colour tone you have used for these photographs. Combned the locations, they provide a cinematic quality.
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Thanks!!! I personalised the colour of the camera to capture better the colours 😉😉😉😉
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What a quaint town with lovely buildings and lots of vibrancy. It’s always a good thing to have your assumptions put in check, as often the results are good!
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Thanks Lara! Absolutely agree!! 😉😉😉
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El Rocio is such a lovely place! Buildings are beautiful indeed. Will definitely try those costumes whenever we travel there.
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Thanks Sandy! He he he yeeees! I never had one of those costumes so near to me 😉😉😉
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I like how through blogging we get to know of several off beat places . El Rocho is very new to me and it looks so beautiful. I would like to experience what draws several pilgrims here.
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It looks like a wonderful village and you have captured it’s beauty very well in your photos. I like how authentic it looks. These are the places where you can better explore the local life.
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Thanks! In fact yes, we learnt a lot about the Andalusian culture those days at Rocío and also overcame some cliches!!😉😉😉
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Awe-inspiring pictures enough to lure anyone to plan a visit to El Rocio. The architecture of the buildings is so unique with those spires and turrets piercing the blue skies. Would definitely love to visit this beautiful place.
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Thanks Rashmi!!! We recommend to avoid summer for visits 😉😉😉 can be extremely hot there 😞
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Looks wonderful! Such a charming place to see 🙂 El Rocio is definitely on my bucket list. Thanks for sharing 😉
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Thanks Adam!!😉
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I really enjoyed your picture story .They pretty much took me on a virtual tour. I enjoyed seeing you pictures. Haven’t been here but surely would love to visit. Thanks for the share.
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Thanks! For potential visits there better in spring or autumn. Summer can be really hooooot 😞
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Wow that does look like it’s an old Western! Love the architecture of this place, it’s gorgeous! Wonderful photos too, you’ve really captured it.
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Thaaaanks! All the small churches are incredible yes 😉😉
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Your pictures are quite impressive with beautiful color tones of yellow and blue, enough to attract someone to visit the place. Today I get aware of one more place that I’ve never heard before. Thanks for sharing
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This looks like it is from the movies. I have always wanted to experience the ‘wild west’ myself.
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