Night settled over Monfragüe as rain began slipping through the last of the daylight, bringing with it the smell of wet earth, according to ABC España. For the park's imposing landscape, the account says, the moisture was welcome, making it look even more overwhelming.
The scattered drops soon turned, with the darkness, into autumn's first heavy downpour. The storm broke out among the winding roads that trace the interior of the park, ABC reports.
At the heart of the "berrea", or deer rut, the mood is one of respect, the article says, and there is no other way to feel at that hour and under that sky. Body and mind stay tense on the narrow routes, where the animals can appear without any warning.
That tension holds until you reach a village — in this case Villarreal de San Carlos, in Cáceres, ABC writes.
