Sunday, January 24, 2010

Road Trip in Spain Part 5 - Ronda de Andalucia

Our last stop with Mic and Katherine in Andalucia is Ronda.  It's a town built on top of this gigantic gorge which slices the town in half.  We stayed at the Parador which has one of the best locations in town.  Luckily we had one day of sunshine which allowed us to tour this magnificent town.
After Mic and Katherine departed, we headed down to Gibraltar since we were only 90 minutes away and wanted to see this historic point in the Iberian peninsula.   Our little Ibiza got stranded along with 10 other cars in the middle of the mountain when the snow started to accumulate.  We almost thought we had to spend the night in our car and started counting how much food and water we had with us.  Fortunately, the snow started to melt a little bit and Dadu was able to steer us out safely (even though it took us 4 hours to complete our 90-minute journey).  Chamu of course slept through all of it and missed his chance to play in the snow.



Our Parador is the building to the left on the top of the gorge

View of the old bridge

Very well preserved Arabic bath house



View of the valley from the town

Up close and personal with a hardworking donkey

Dadu toured the bull ring when Mamu and Chamu slept in

Who'd thought you would need snow chains 60-minute away from Gibraltar!!!

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