We broke up the drive between Cordoba and Granada by visiting Cueva de Murciélagos, the bat's cave. We stopped at a little town for breakfast. We had seen many bikers riding on these hilly roads. When we reached the top of the hill where this town was perched, a large group of bikers came from the other direction. This town was there turn around spot and many stopped for a rest. It would be beautiful biking, but you would have to be in fantastic shape. Spanish coffee made me happy. There was cheap, fresh squeezed orange juice everywhere, which made the rest of my family happy.
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| I was so excited to drink this coffee that I couldn't even frame the photo properly. |
It was a windy, steep climb past many olive trees up to the cave.
We joined a Spanish tour group and took an hour long guided tour of the cave. The tour mostly took us straight down, so there was a lot of climbing. There were no pictures allowed in the cave, so we had to fake some in the visitors' center after our tour. There were prehistoric cave paintings and pottery and bones have been found in the cave. When we arrived in the parking lot, there was a large school group getting ready for a hike. There are amazing fossils from ancient oceans all over the park.
Unfortunately, there are not many bats left in the bat cave. Farmers used the bat poop for fertilizer in the sixties and then the bats were hit hard by pesticides. We saw a few bats, but no large colonies.
The cave was very cool and I was glad we made the visit.
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