Coves del Drac

We bought our tickets to the caves and grabbed lunch at their little cafe thing. The nice thing about Spain is that all of the cafes sell cheese sandwiches :)

Then we walked around the area for awhile. We had an hour or so to kill before our 'tour' of the caves. The surrounding area was actually much cooler than the caves were.

We started hearing really weird sounds so we followed them. On the way we went over some funky rocks.

Then we found the noises. They were peacocks!! There were tons of them. I think we counted 12 or so. They were so pretty. We followed them around for awhile trying to get one to spread its tail.

See the peacock in the trees?

Here's another one :)

My goodness! They are everywhere!

Finally we saw one with its tail spread huge. It was starring down the other one.

Isn't it so pretty? Not surprisingly, this guy won. The other one flew (yup, flew) up to a nearby roof.

And here's the looser! We waited for a few minutes to get a picture of him flying down, but he never did. Well, he probably did, but we didn't wait long enough.

Pretty flowers.

Pretty peoples. (pretty goofy peoples)

A long and winding road, that brings you down...

to the wall....

and the sea!

The cool part about being young and having no kids (or dogs or other random slow-you-down things) is that you can follow any road or trail you feel like following. On this little trip we did a lot of that. See that barely there path? We followed it.

Here is some random little cave thing in the cliff side.

I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!

More pretty people. This time in front of a very pretty landscape.

We didn't make it all the way down there because we got distracted by other things. The see looks so awesome and powerful when its crashing against the shoreline.

Hehehe.. here Alan decided to get artistic. I hope you all enjoy his masterpiece :)

More crashing waves and blue-green sea :)

Aahhhh.....

We go from peaceful crashing waves to military sniper points. This is a little cement room built into the side of the cliff overlooking the little inlet area. I was too wussy to go in it, but Alan was brave.

This is from inside of the room looking out. That is the little area the sniper guys had to watch the sea. I don't think they were actually called snipers at the time, but you all know what I mean.

Here is from the outside looking in.

That thing through the door is actually the ladder to a little hole in the ground/exit.

Outside again. See the people way in the distance? That's where we came from.

This is the little courtyard area at the entrance to the caves.

The courtyard again from the other side.

We weren't allowed to take pictures in the cave, but we got one. It was pretty silly actually. They said that pictures ruined the natural look.....but the natural look was kind of gone anyway. There were built-in walkways and stairways and at the end there was a natural lake (the second or third largest natural underground lake). In the large open area near the lake they had built a whole theater kind of thing. They made us all sit down on little tiny benches and had a little show that consisted of a few row boats with lights on them rowing around in the dark. One of them had a little quartet on it and they played some classicalish song. It was kind of pretty, but not worth the wait and the seats and the screaming babies when the lights went out. Anyway...we think that they really didn't let you take pictures because they wanted you to buy their postcards and posters and stuff. But it was fun anyway :)