Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Day 13

Today we drove about two hours outside of Granada to go on a hike in the Sierra Nevadas. The road was extremely windy and it was essentially one lane, even though there was two way traffic. Every town we passed driving up to the trailhead was whitewashed, and looked quite picturesque. After a little while, we arrived and started hiking down the trail, but, within five minutes, the group unexpectedly separated. We tried to find the other half of the group, but decided to keep hiking down anyways. Good descision. The trail got a little steep and slippery because we were basically walking down a small creek. However, the trail evened out and the view was absolutely spectacular. Along the way, we saw an abandoned stables that was built into the side of the mountain (probably a little over one hundred years old). Kate and i decided to hike down to it and explored the inside. It might not have been the smartest descision, but it was pretty interesting regardless. About an hour later we made it to the town below, and had lunch. All along the hike there were cherry trees that you could just pluck cherries off of because they were all in season. Anyways, in town, I drank from a fountain (here in granada and in the mountains the fountains are all meant to be drinkable) that promised a girlfriend if you drank from the water every day. After lunch, we got back on the bus and returned to Granada.

At night, we went back to the andalucian part of town and took long exposure shots of Alhambra. Some of my pictures turned out really great. Tomorrow we kinda have the day off.

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