Alhambra

Alhambra, where do I start. This place is amazing!! Second only to Mucci Puchi(sp) And if I had ever heard of it I do not remember it.

Give him alms, woman!
For there is nothing crueler in life
than to be blind in Granada.
-Francisco de Icaza, incribed in the Torre de la Polvara

I am using an old tour book and my book says they limit the visitors to 8,000 a day. When I tell this to our hotel clerk she tells me that now they limit it to 4,000 a day. The hotels are allowed to sell 2,000 and they sell 2,000 at the gate per day. But, she cannot get us tickets until tomorrow. So, we chanced it and go and hope to get a ticket at the gate. Well, they had the big football game last night and those that are not in the hospital this morning are sleeping in so the crowd was not bad.

Cost here is 13{ per person

and 4{ for the head phones

5{ taxi ride from the center of town.

When you get your ticket you are assigned a time you can enter the Nazarie Palace. Our time was 12 noon and we got there @ 11:30am so we had to hussle to find it. They allow you 30 minutes so after 12:30pm we would not have been allowed in. Once in you can stay as long as you wish. But when the lady gave us our map, ticket & audio she told us we had until 2pm to reach 3 places. After 2pm no one would be allowed in any of those places. If you are already in there you can stay as long as you choose. So, once we finished the palace........if you ever finish........we rushed over to "Generalife". Getting there about 1:45pm. Generalife is where the Sultans lived.