Welcome to the Mediterranean: Salobreña

Day 3

Sunday's in Granada are very quiet and everything is closed. Since everything is closed we decided to take a bus to the closest beach called Salobreña. We did our best taking the local bus to the bus station then got a little confused. Since we were so close to the outgoing us time it only let 1/2 of us buy our tickets, so we ran over to the help desk and they worked everything out for us. We made it down to the area where the buses are and tried to find our bus. Ironically we ran into Maria who was dropping our friend off so he could go back to Madrid, she helped us find the right bus to get on and we were on our way.

When we got to Salobreña we had to walk a while to actually get to the beach, but when we did it was amazing. It is not uncommon to see topless women and thousands of umbrellas. One time when I was looking around I saw a little boy pull down his pants and start peeing into the sand right next to his family. It was super funny and the family did not even react. I am not sure if that is normal or not but we avoided that spot for the rest of the day.

There was a point where you could hike up and take in the views of the entire coast. There were young kids jumping off the cliffs and awesome views. Here are some pictures.

They had restaurants right on the beach that were frying squids.

After coming back from the beach we were all really tired. So we showered, took a siesta then went out and bought ingredients for Calimocho. Calimocho is red wine mixed with coke. A very popular drink in Spain. We made them and drank and it was an awesome time :).