Our Spanish Christmas Adventure Part IX--Candelabra Caves of Busot

Luckily we all felt good the next day, so we headed up to the little mountain town of Busot to tour the Canalobre (Candalabra) Caves.

Everything I found online said to just head into the town of Busot and then follow the signs to the caves.  So, we packed a picnic lunch and drove inland.

Once in Busot we turned off by this adorable church:

and found  the perfect spot for our picnic   Yes, Marika really did eat with her back to the view and her nose buried in reading fanfic on her computer. I told her that I'll send her a copy of this photo when she has a teenager and complains about how jaded they are lol

The view was spectacular.

We were so glad that the online directions were to go into the town looking for signs,or else we would have never found such a perfect spot.  There WAS one sign in town telling us to turn right off of the main road towards the cave.  However, in spite of looping through the narrow roads five or six times and branching off in different ways each time, we never saw another sign.  Eventually, we found directions in Dave's iPHONE and followed those to arrive at the caves.  A note to anyone who may visit, we parked at teh first labeled parking area you come to, and ended up hiking about 1 km up the hill along the road with no sidewalks, only to find a second parking area right at the entrance   Save yourself the walk and having to dodge traffic and drive on past that first area.

Visits to the cave are by guided tour only.  The next tour was in 20 minutes, so we only had a little while to wait around, and we had plenty of lovely scenery while we waited.

We also had fun being silly and coming up with alternate meanings for some of the prohibited items on the sign pictured below ("no making objects levitate," "no pointing," "no skimpy bikini tops," etc)

So, here is the last point at which the camera was allowed to be out:

And a couple of photos I pulled off of the internet of what it looks like inside. There are caveS, but only the main cavern is open to the public.  None the less, it was very impressive and you get to walk all down into it.  The tour lasted about 45 minutes and was fun.

After our tour, we slowly worked our way back to El Campello, and had another great BBQ on the roof top terrace and soaked in some more heat in the hot tub.

Mountains, valleys, oceans and caves all in one day.  What more can you ask for?

Hadley