The route continues along a narrow path in the shade of a lush chestnut forest to reach the beautiful village of Santa Marina, which still retains the strong appearance of the villages of western Asturias, characterized by a solid and austere architecture of slate masonry buildings without plaster, few openings and covered with slate slabs. Once leaving the village, path and hiker climb together to the top of the hill towards the hamlet of Almallos, from where they descend along a path surrounded by chestnut trees until reaching the road from Taramundi to Veigas, then continuing along a steep path that descends to Teixois, a place that is one of the most interesting ethnographic sites in the Principality of Asturias. The hiker can visit here a series of hydraulic devices: mill, mallet, fulling mill, whetstone and a rudimentary power plant that powered the first light bulbs that came to Taramundi. Passing Teixois we ascend parallel to the stream of As Mestas, passing through the village of the same name, finding abundant riparian forest that will clear as we ascend and approach the starting point again.