Pelikan Park Estepona

... all worth it. <br><br>The shuttle took us to the airport where we met up with 13 more overlanders. The couple from chili, Craig, Kati, Dan, Sarah, Gavin, Peter, Myumi, Dan H., ect. Then there was the most amazing European discount airlines ever and guess where my seat was? THE LAST ROW, there is already about half the normal leg room compared to a normal American airlines. Man 2.5 hours worth of hell with this weird guy who could not stop fidgeting to ...

... whole different world. Everything is in Arabic and French, there´s hardly any english around (you should see the Coca Cola bottles). After a quick town overview, we stepped off the tour bus and into Morocco, and of course, the rain. We were quickly hustled towards the Kasbah while Moroccan street vendors tailed our group selling all kinds of umbrellas. Fortunately we brought our own, but that still didn´t stop some of the vendors from trying to sell us another. After a quick look ...

This is by far the most beautiful city I have visited in Spain! Ronda is where the first bullfight took place and is home to the oldest bullring in Spain. The other students and I started out the day listening to one of our professors give a speech about the history of bullfighting, very interesting but after three hours I was ready to see Ronda. We then went to the bullring and had the opportunity to go inside where the fights take place. It was a feeling like no ...

... check. After shopping we headed to the big city of Gibraltar... a rather strange place... centered around a bloody big rock with apes running wild over it. Yeah weird. So after stopping by for a delicious Subway lunch we wondered through the main shopping street and caught a cable car up to the top of the rock where we were greeted by cute fat apes staring blankly at us in boredom. One so bored in fact that he ...

... we stumble upon an eager taxi driver with a minivan and he agrees to take all 7 of us on a private tour of the rock. St. Michaels Cave is a magnificent cavern once set up to be used as a war time hospital protected within the fortress. The Summit has spectacular views down sheer cliffs and is covered with old gun emplacements. The Siege Tunnels where the british held off approaching forces by tunnelling inside the rock and creating holes so they could ...

... top of my list. After lunch, John brought Lisette and I to O'Hare airport and of course we hit some Friday afternoon traffic. On our way there, Lisette got various phone calls from her mom and there was one that just cracked me up. So they called and said they were waiting for us to arrive at the airport so they can go through security. She also mentioned that they brought ...

... as we got out of the shuttle that we touring the colony in, one of the monkeys opened the drivers side door, jumped into the drivers seat and proceeded to wail on the horn until our tour guide chased it out. We were laughing hysterically! They are notorious for snatching food out of tourists hands and even take hats and sunglasses if they can. Our tour guide was clever too. He had those monkeys trained. Normally they don't like to be touched by people but he ...

... in the fresh sea breezes. Alex was here to learn the latter by the time I turned up he was at the stage of standing up and starting to cruise. To get to this stage takes at least three or four lessons - meaning it's a pretty complicated sport to learn or perfect. This ruled me out from even attempting it, as I would have ...

... hankering for some fish and chips ever since starting the trip and I was a little disappointed at how bland the food was across the street. Seems like it was a lot better in Australia and New Zealand. It couldn't have been for lack of hunger, as our last real meal was the night before last at the Indian restaurant. Yesterday was all snacks and breakfast was hostel cornflakes. The rest of the day we pretty much wandered around the town and ...

... been a great view if it wasn't so foggy. I found some more apes and climbed up to see an old moorish lookout tower and one from WWII as well. I walked back down to find Tai and we walked back across the airstrip to Spain. Strangely enough, we met our Mormon friends from the first day on the bus back to Algeciras. They had been attending a church in Gibraltar. They had been traveling on missions like this for several years. An interesting life.