Castillo de Busot

We visited the highest cave in Spain today, which was 50 metres, equivalent of 14 storeys. And we took steps right down to the bottom and back up to the top again! I needed a breather or two. Our guide does it many times a day, so she must be very fit! Spent 40 minutes in there with just 4 other people, in summer the group is 40! That would have been too much. It was amazing to see. The main stalegmite is 144 thousand years old! I can't quite get my head around that. It was 17° inside, which remains the same all year. They played a little bit dirty though because on entry, without warning, each party had a photo taken, no permission requested. Then, on our way out, the photographer presented us with a printed out card featuring our photo plus QR codes for us to access lots of pictures of the caves and concerts. Of course there was a charge. It was a bit sneaky as photography was forbidden. Felt that they were trying to make extra money out of us but not being open about it. We declined.
Once outside, we had a walk up a path, hoping it might lead to the amazing hole in the rock formation, which we'd seen from below. It didn't though. We passed an off-grid dwelling high up, so peaceful. On the way back, a woman passed with four dogs in tow, not on leads. One of them, an alsation type, circled around our legs barking at us and wouldn't stop when she shouted at it. Luckily it did eventually but I didn't like that part of the walk.
Later on, we returned to our spot in the car park, which we still have to ourselves, and went to the museum of ethnic musical instruments. John was surprised that they had nothing from the UK, such as bagpipes, or an Irish fiddle. There were some interesting and beautiful ones amongst them.
This is such a lovely area that we decided to stick around and look for a campsite. Made lots of calls to ACSI sites, bugger they're all full! One said for the next 2 months even! They're all on the coast but we did manage to find one inland that had space, so have booked. All a bit daunting and time consuming. Maybe we should book ahead in future.Read more