Andalucía Things to Do Tips by jo104

The streets are beautiful in the old part of Marbella & the surrounding houses have plants & flowers trailing over the balconies

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This was closed when we visited but they do events like concerts here.

Its quite a treck up the hill with great beach views

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Address: Feurengirola

Tuesday is the biggest outdoor market in Fuengorola where you can find anything from fake watches & designer clothes to more traditional produce like leather bags & ceramics

I bought a fake gucci watch that makes my arm green!! very stylist doll.

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Address: Feira Ground Fuengirola

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Formally the home of the King Abbel Malik, it has a mixture of Muslim & Christian architecture. The one courtyard is done in a Renaissance style whilst the other belongs to a late gothic style.

This beautiful fountain just reminds me how important the concept of flowing water & flowers was in Arabic times very peaceful almost musical.

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Free donkey ride when you get to the top of the cable car.

The donkeys were very sweet & obedient

The guide's English is quite poor though.

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The Telecabina (or 'Teleférico') takes you on an amazing 15-minute journey in a Cable Car that holds 4 people, right up to the highest point in the Malaga Province Monte Calarmorro at an altitude of almost 800 meters above sea level. From this superb vantage point, you not only have the most magnificent views of the Costa del Sol, but also the awesome panoramic views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains (white with snow in the winter months), The Guadalhorce Valley and on a clear day you can see Gibraltar and the coast of Africa

The cost is Euro 11 with a free donkey ride

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Address: Leave from Tivoli world
Website: http://www.benal-mad.com/attractions.htm

The ring was built in 1785 & took 6 years to complete its facade is in the late baroque style with columns of stone.

As I stood in the centre of the ring I could not imagine how Pedro Romero managed to kill 5,000 bulls without sustaining injury. Pedro Romero is well known for the invention of the red cape "aficionada".

There is a small museum attached to the ring which tells of the history & displays some matador dress & bullfighting tools. Also it gives the dinasties of the Romero's & the Ordenez.

The entrance fee is minimal, although the museum is small but air conditioned

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This was the highlight for me in Ronda buying homemade sweets & cookies from a nun in hiding. At the side entrance of the convent of La Merced there is a small room in which homemade sweets & preserves made by the nuns are displayed in a cabinet. You ring a bell & are blessed by a cloistered Carmelite nun, then place your order & place the money for your purchases in a revolving cupboard. A while later presto your goodies are delivered to you in the revolving shelf with your change although you never see the nun.

The Carmelite nuns are of a cloistered order who are devoted to prayer, penance & perpetual abstinence.

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Address: Convent La Merced