Espana - Granada

Granada, south of Spain, Andalucia region, is one of the most ancient city, and was once occupied as an important town before Roman times, and the last city in Spain occupied by the Arab conquerors. Granada sits at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, which covers with snow during the cold winter, and provides a great place for winter sports.

The most famous of all in Granada, is its ancient old palace - The Alhambra Palace. The township was build surrounding this beautiful ancient palace, with a lot of small lanes and alleys that were being preserved as world's heritage.

Granada has welcomed our arrival with gloomy skies and cold wet weather with drizzles and rain throughout our stay, how sad was that. Still it didn't put us off the schedule to visit the beautiful palace - The Alhambra Palace.

It's told by Jeslyn's friend that Granada and The Alhambra was simply beautiful, and indeed it is. I love the ancient small town feel of Granada. It seems like i was living in the history of Spain, witnessing this town being taken by the Romans and the Arabs. The houses around the palace are unique and exoctic, with designs resembling the Arabs lifestyle and yet having Christian feel, and with the Holy Cross across most of the streets. Having being invaded and conquered by different leaders of different religions, from muslim to christians, and long before that, it was said that Granada was a Jewish quarter, that's how the town got its name. No matter which it is, all these have definitely enrich the town.

On the flight to Granada...

The beautiful Alhambra Palace & Generalife

It happened that in this small ancient town, there's a very famous restaurant, well-knowned for their Iberico ham!!

Look at the amount of ham hanging from the ceiling!! I'm drooling....

This is just making me so hungry... I love ham... especially parma ham...

The name of the restaurant

That's right - La Cueva

just right infront of Plaza Neuva. Muz try!

Small portion of the selection of their Iberico Ham... yummy!!!

The night of Granada is quiet and serene, and yet has it's own charactericrics. I didnt have a professional DSLR or so to capture the beautiful night, so i just made do with my compact camera...

I think i should really invest in a better camera, so i can take better night scenes...

We spent our night drinking and watching flamingo dance at the cold and wet Granada...

Our 4 flamingo dancers...

I cant understand what are they singing actually, but four of them are doing a fabulous dance... We only manage to spend a night at Granada as we need to proceed to our next stop - Seville...

Hopefully i'll have the chance to revisit Granada someday.