Our parador, this time in sunny weather.
You can actually pay money to go down under the bridge and check out the various decks and rooms there. We decided not to bother today.
I gotta admit, that's a pretty cool dining experience waiting to happen. Still a bit early in the season to do TOO much eating outside.
The gorge is pretty tall.
Prime living space, that's for sure.
Let's play a game. It's called "Spot the extremly-out-of-place-cow".
We began walking the city streets, with the first planned stop being the Casa del Rey Moro (House of the Moorish King).
It used to be an old Moorish palace, and they dug a stairwell alll the way down the height of the gorge as a way to get water and as an escape route.
The views on the way down the gorge are ¡muy excellente!
At the bottom, even better.
The place is in a pretty bad state of repair and unused, but they money from the stairs will probably eventually pay to fix it up.
This is the Puente Viejo -- the older bridge that was probably a bit easier to build than the Puente Nuevo.
There's a cool equestrian centre down there.
Thisi s a pretty popular place to take photos ....
This is the arch to some important dude. It's been rebuilt a few times.
Next stop: The ancient arab baths.
Kid on horsie!
The baths are pretty cool, actually. They were located just outside the city walls, so that visitors coming in to the town could clean up and wash before entering the city and the Mosque located right next door.
Inside, the place is divied into three rooms, including this one with a dorky girl trying to get into as many photos as she can.
They were the hot, warm, and cold rooms, respectively. We think this one was the warm one.
This was the ancient theatre, also known as the cold bath room.
This dog looks more sheep than dog. Probably a good thing it's a sheep-dog then.
Much of the ancient fortress walls from a thousand years ago are still here!!
We found ourself at this church which is rather unassuming except for the museum to "torture and its instruments" next door. That sounds greaaaaaat.
This is the ayuntamiento, the city gov't buildings.
And this is the primary cathedral, which cost too much for us to bother going inside. Note to church people: Unless you are the coolest church for 1000 miles, more than 1€ to get in is a bit of a rip.
This town has tonnes of ceramic and painting stores. There's some serious money to be spent here. Ouch.
So we next wandered to the other side of the town with the huge valley down below.
It was about here that we decided to go all the way down and around.
Awesome views of the city above.
And the parador
¡¡holy guacamole!! There's a waterfall there too!
It would take us about 2 hours to get all the way around and back up. It finally got very hot and sunny, which meant we got some sun too. w000t.
This house doesn't look very happy, but there were a bunch of dudes inside doing something with it.
Sweeet hotel way up on the cliffs.
The roads were awesome for walking too.
We honestly aren't sure what all this yellow stuff is, but there's so much of it, it can't be all accidental weeds ....
Coolest comtrail of the day.
There was this cool sparse forest on the other side of the valley.
Samantha likes this photo of me next to a sign saying "Keep out punk kids!"
Back in town finally, we had ourselvs a nice midday meal, and picked up some laundry we had gotten done at a local laundromat.
Spot the girl up there!
