We had to wake up early and be at the bus stop by 7:45 to begin our trip to Cabo de Gata, about 2 hours away from Granada. Cabo de Gata is know for its beautiful mountains, beaches, views and crystal clear Mediterranean sea. I am pretty sure that IES tricked us into this hike. This was no hike, this was a full out excursion in the mountains! You can tell from the pictures that we basically started at the bottom of the mountain, walked to the top, and then down to the beach and the rocks and back up another side again. It was a 10 mile hike that took about 7 or 8 hours to do but it was so worth it. We also got to stop at the beach for about 2 hours to swim and eat lunch. The beaches are amazing (watch our for nudity). I love the Mediterranean waters. You can't really smell the salt, but you sure can taste it.
It is hard to tell but the picture to the left is the same as the one above just when we got to the bottom. Here we hiked for a bit along the beach working our way up and around some of the pretty big rocks. It was definitely a challenge. I don't think our tour guide was too fond of us. He would stop and tell us a few things and then made us keep going. He did not like for us to rest.
The remaining pictures might represent my favorite part of our hike. We climbed up one part of the mountain which was all these loose grey rocks that were hard to climb up and down. When we got to the top there was goats everywhere. It was so strange to see them up there. But our tour guide must have been used to them, cause we walked right through them. I think the view from atop the "goat mountain" was my favorite. The hike down it was treacherous but the views were outstanding. The pictures do not do it justice.
After we hiked and swam at the beach, we hiked into a small town where we had the patio of a restaurant reserved and had a sunset dinner basically on the beach. It was a great time. We did not get back to Granada till about midnight. It was one of the girls birthdays so we went out to explore the city at night and got some Shwarma and pizza. Overall it was a great time!
I will hopefully have something new to most here in the next day to catch everyone up on what has happened this week.
Until then, ¡Hast Luego!
Nathan
Wow!! I'm loving being on this journey! Would definitely have loved this hike, especially through the goats! Thanks for sharing it with all of us! Xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying this too Nate!Miss you but, know you're loving every moment of this!Just don't decide to stay there!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat pics! Thank you for the blog! You aRE AWESOME AND WE LOVE GETTING TO READ ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURES!
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