The province of Malaga’s benign climate and strategic location, and the impressive places, parks and natural areas on the Costa del Sol make this region an exceptional destination both for tourists looking for a setting where they can enjoy active vacations to the fullest and for visitors who simply want to combine a relaxing stay with activities that are somewhat outside the traditional travel mainstream.

The Costa del Sol offers everyone an extremely broad array of options and opportunities that seek two primary objectives: to make the visits of the most active visitors more exciting and to make available to tourists seeking new thrills an interesting menu of services and suggestions with entertainment alternatives for all tastes and profiles.

Although many businesses have helped to promote and diversify the adventure tourism offer of the province of Málaga, they all have one common denominator: scrupulous adherence to the safety and risk prevention rules governing the activities they perform. Firms on the Costa del Sol that specialise in this field comply, without exception, with the most exacting legal requirements, have obtained the necessary authorisations, certifications and accreditations. They are staffed by professionals and experts who guarantee absolutely meticulous execution of the programmes they offer.

Their clients are as varied as their activities, some of which are no longer directed only at tourist groups, families or individual visitors but are also designed with incentives travellers in mind, or even business travellers or executives who choose to combine their work-related stay on the Costa del Sol with extreme sports or “challenges a la carte”.

All-terrain vehicle excursions, horseback trips, hiking and trail walking or canoeing are only a few of the options offered by these businesses, some of which have come to specialise in such specific services as extreme sports like canyoning, rappelling or bungee jumping. There are even some agencies that prepare survival courses, design military obstacle courses and stage multi-adventure “raids”, as well as other activities designed for the most intrepid clients who, in short, are seeking extreme thrills.

Moreover, the unique characteristics of some specific enclaves in the province of Málaga make them ideal locations for performing certain activities, such as paragliding, a high-flying sport that has found an area with especially suitable characteristics for its practice in the famous Abdalajís valley; rock climbing, which has turned the El Chorro gorge into a Mecca for devotees of this sport, or trips in aerostatic balloons that are so often to be seen in the sky above the lovely Ronda highlands.