St. Michael's Cave Gibraltar

Gibraltar

Gibraltar was great, despite what the Spaniards say.

This trip was a day trip through CEA (my program) with about 30 students who opted out of going to Abroad Fest in Barcelona (which was pretty much an American drunk fest.. to each their own I guess!).

Anyway the group was great and we made our way via bus to …

The people from Gibraltar are quite a distance from the UK but that doesn't stop it from looking like you're smack in the middle of London the second you cross the line from the south coast of Spain (minus the big rock, of course). The people from Gibraltar are fiercely loyal & proud to be British rather than Spanish. I appreciated the English …

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Six square kilometers surrounding the biggest "rock" I've ever seen, it's actually the 9th biggest in the world and it's made up mostly of limestone. The Rock of Gibraltar, and the surrounding settlement of people that is owned by the UK was quite the experience. It was a LOT bigger than I had originally anticipated, and I certainly …

... back down, via some of the rockside sights. Nothing is close by unfortunately. To the left as you head down is St Michael's Cave, apparently inhabited since the iron age (and more recently by a Saint it seems), whilst to the right there is a ...

... lice...don't worry I had my hood on and washed up well) -- After having some fun with the monkeys, we headed into St. Michael's Cave, which was much larger than I thought it was going to be.  The cave was known of and explored by prehistoric men, ...

... wasn't wheelchair accessible and there were stairs to navigate.  Small buses picked us up and took us to St. Michael's Cave. This is a dramatic natural grotto rich with stalactites and stalagmites, a natural auditorium for concerts.   We ...

... the English language & the fish & chips.  The girls loved the apes at the top of the rock. St Michael's Cave was beautiful.  I felt like I was in the middle of a Dr Seuss book.  The stalagmite/stalactite columns were different ...

... reason to be down; Gibraltar has plenty of other things to offer.     Second, we were brought to St. Michael's cave, within the Rock. It was really something to see, though most caves are inherently awesome. However, this one had ...

... was enough to see the places of interest. Another couple & I took a mini van on a guided tour. We saw St. Michael's Cave (underground grotto with stalactites), the Ape's Den (a colony of tailless monkeys), the Great Siege Tunnels (complex tunnels carved ...

... guide in a car or just take the cable car up, where you can select what things you want to go and see up there, i.e. St. Michael's Cave, World War II Tunnels, Great Siege Tunnels, Museums, etc. We wanted to do our own thing, so just paid Ģ8 each, which ...

... ate bugs out of each others hair. Once Adam had his share of hair bugs we headed to see some stalactites and stalagmites in St. Michael's cave. When we got to the cave we were told we needed tickets, tickets that we should have been offered to us when we ...

... to enter. Driving up we saw our first Barbary apes, brought over from Africa by the Moors and stopped at 'St Michael's Cave', a fabulous limestone cavern set inside the Rock. The formations were magnificent and quite impressive. A quick lunch at the ...

... my case and just kind of chill around the people.  One baby monkey also climbed on my head!     There was also St. Michael's Cave, which was nothing in comparison to La Gruta de Maravillas in Aracena, but awesome nonetheless.  During WWII it was ...