Granada and the Alhambra - A Blast from the Past!! - Alhambra, Granada! What a treat!! ALAIN10 was our wonderful bilingual guide. We had just one blemish during the entire tour from Malaga. One of our bus passengers discovered that she had inadvertently left her documents along with her purse behind at the Cafe where we had taken a break, so we made a U-turn to get back there after about 20 minutes along the way to Granada! :) We ended up losing about a half hour in getting to our destination. But from that point on, it was simply a magical experience that transported us into an era gone by! We took an hour and a half walk to the City Center, drenched in magnificent and imposing historical monuments - the Cathedral, Capilla Real de Granada, Palacio de la Madraza, Plaza de Bib Rambla. and the Monastery of San Gerominos! We walked back leisurely through this beautiful town toward the entrance of the Alhambra, which is the piece de resistance of Granada! This is where we met our second guide Noelia (sp?) who took us on a surreal journey into the past, across the wonderfully manicured and maintained gardens and the immaculately preserved architecture and civic planning of the Alhambra, a city within a city fortress! The combined aesthetics and mastery of the two simply took our breath away!! So much beauty, subtlety and nuance in this grand array of monuments and landscape! Most of all, we were struck by the preservation and the assimilation of different faiths and cultures coming together as flowing tapestry on canvas! At the end of the tour, it gave us respite and hope that we can preserve unity within our tremendous diversity and live as one humanity, even in this day and age!

Amazing trip ! - We enjoyed this trip. Carlos charmed us, a pleasant guide, he explained everything very well and answered all the questions with a smile. The free time in Granada could have been a little longer to allow us to visit several sights. Minus point : the guide at the Alhambra spoke very fast and was difficult to understand through the microphone.