Gibraltar, Nerja, Ronda

Hi! This past weekend we took a trip to Gibraltar Nerja and Ronda, as you might have guessed. This was a trip planned by the program, but not for class. The other trips with the program we have gone with our teachers and had to learn stuff. For this trip, they rented a bus to take everyone everywhere for the three days. Anyways, so about 20 people from the program decided to go.
The first place we went was Gibraltar, which really is just a big rock from which you can see Africa and Spain at the same time. Here we are from the bottom of the rock.
We took a cable car up to the top of the rock, where there are monkeys!
The monkeys are mean and try to steal people's food. We all had packed lunches from our host families. One monkey tried to jump into a girl's bag because she had a plastic bag hanging out. It didn't get anything, but there was lots of screaming involved. Another monkey stole a peach from another girl. They were okay if you didn't show them you had food though. Gibraltar was very pretty from the top.

Here is Spain:and here is Africa!
This photo is only slightly picasa-altered.
On the way down, several of us decided to walk half way to see "the monkey house". However, we did not make it that far. Apparently we went the wrong way, and wasted alot of effort going down a very steep path for about half an hour that eventually ended at a gate that said "private property". So we turned around and went right back up to the cable cars and took the easy way down. There was not much else in Gibraltar besides a small touristy area near the rock.

We went to the hotel that night which was in between Nerja and Malaga. The second day we went to Nerja. We only saw two things at Nerja, a cave and the "Balcon de Europa" (balcony of europe). The caves were cool, but not the most amazing caves in the world. The Balcon de Europa was pretty though.
I wish that I could have explored that part of Nerja more though. We didn't get very much time to explore on our own. That's why I would rather plan my own trip, even though this was cheap and convenient. Here I am at the Balcon in sepia.The rest of that day we spent at the beach near the hotel. We swam out to some rocks randomly placed in the sea.
The next day we went to Ronda, which was probably my favorite place because it has a nice town and pretty scenery. One of the main attractions in Ronda is a bridge that goes over a gorge.
Here is the gorge.
Then we went to the "Casa del Rey Moro" - house of the Moorish king. There were some pretty gardens next to the gorge, and a mine. The mine wasn't so much of a mine as just a staircase that went that went down to the bottom of the gorge. Here we are at the bottom of the gorge.
And here is Sarah in the gardens.
We came back to Sevilla that night. University classes don't start until next week, but EUSA - the UNC at Sevilla part- classes start this week, so I am going to my first class tonight. This weekend we are going to Lagos, Portugal.