We left Sevilla in our rental car and had plans to drive through the white hill town area. Very quickly it becomes you start to see the farming area of the region. They have miles and miles of olive trees and then you see a small village with a young boy leading his sheep down the dirt path.
This is a view from the car. The while hill towns are very impressive and you come upon them all over. The building are all white because they paint them so that it keeps the heat inside them down. As you get up into the towns the streets are so narrow and this was also done to create shade from the buildings and it is a lot cooler as you walk around through the narrow roads. I don't know how the drive them, but we didn't dare take our rental car on that experience.
Here are Matt & Nikki walking up one of the narrow streets. We walked up to the old part where there is an old church and fun sights to see.
The alley ways, and yes seriously cars drive them.
We had plans to spend the day working our way through this region but we got a little side tracked. The first town we were in Arcos was having their town fair this weekend and we noticed the signs and that they were having a bull fight that night. After some discussion we decided to hang out in this town and experience something that we never would have a chance to probably do again. Yes we stayed for the bull fight and it was an experience. If you want to know more, ask me, but needless to say they do kill the bulls in the ring in front of everyone there. Sitting in the ring before anything happened I was just enjoying the view of this beautiful town and people watching. We were probably the only foreign tourists at the fight, so this was very authentic. It was sort of like a local town rodeo, it was cool.
Just one photo of one of the matadors and the bull. I tell ya it was all quite the event.
We left Sevilla in our rental car and had plans to drive through the white hill town area. Very quickly it becomes you start to see the farming area of the region. They have miles and miles of olive trees and then you see a small village with a young boy leading his sheep down the dirt path.
This is a view from the car. The while hill towns are very impressive and you come upon them all over. The building are all white because they paint them so that it keeps the heat inside them down. As you get up into the towns the streets are so narrow and this was also done to create shade from the buildings and it is a lot cooler as you walk around through the narrow roads. I don't know how the drive them, but we didn't dare take our rental car on that experience.
Here are Matt & Nikki walking up one of the narrow streets. We walked up to the old part where there is an old church and fun sights to see.
The alley ways, and yes seriously cars drive them.
We had plans to spend the day working our way through this region but we got a little side tracked. The first town we were in Arcos was having their town fair this weekend and we noticed the signs and that they were having a bull fight that night. After some discussion we decided to hang out in this town and experience something that we never would have a chance to probably do again. Yes we stayed for the bull fight and it was an experience. If you want to know more, ask me, but needless to say they do kill the bulls in the ring in front of everyone there. Sitting in the ring before anything happened I was just enjoying the view of this beautiful town and people watching. We were probably the only foreign tourists at the fight, so this was very authentic. It was sort of like a local town rodeo, it was cool.
Just one photo of one of the matadors and the bull. I tell ya it was all quite the event.
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