So I continue my super-delayed recount of my Spain trip... One of these days I'll catch up to my current life and eventually my blog will be resurrected to the days of it's peak reign in early 2007 when I was spoken about from the East to the West coast... Umm yeah, really.
So. Granada I Must speak about, because it holds the amazing Alhambra which everyone must visit at some point in their lives. Especially if you are Muslim or appreciate Islamic architecture, or any architecture for that matter! Me and the crew rented a car from Cordoba, of course they only have manual transmission rentals, and I was the only one who could drive stick (can you imagine? What kind of desis are these two other guys?) So anyway, we put in for some Peugot rental, and instead got an Alfa Romeo. No joke. It was pretty pimp. Thankfully it was Diesel too, so we got good mileage with their uber expensive gas! So we hopped in our car and took off. The drive through the hilly midlands of Andalucia was pleasant. Nice easy roads, cutting through hills of olive fields. Thats pretty much all it was, tons of olive trees spanning the horizon. That and the occasional mini town or shady rest stop with food that even I probably wouldn't want to experiment with, let alone my conservative eating companions. After 2 hours and change we reached our destination, Granda.
Granda was a very busy urban city, which I didn't expect. It has a university nearby, and tons of shops, commercial areas, trams and buses, even a legit ghetto. It has a decent amount of crimes in areas, and you can spot those areas quite easily, and of course it is loaded with gypsies. Those gypsies can rob a purse from a moving car, so we definitely kept our guard up! The streets were painful. Navigating a big-ass stick shift Alfa Romeo in some of these tiny roads, with sharp turns and random inclines was definitely challening. Good thing our hotel had a garage! We parked, and then we hit the town....
The first day we hit the Albaycin district, which is just west of the Alhambra, and is the Arabic neighborhood of the city. You even get that Moorish feel when you walk through the hilly streets and see the houses and buildings still with their Moorish influences from the structures to the street signs. There are two main streets that have all sorts of shops and restaurants and hookah lounges, selling everything from Arabic clothes, hookahs, foods, incense, lamps, writings, art etc... Packed with Arabs and even desis. I actually felt more comfortable there, though my Indian companions were scared to walk with me down the Arabic district, fearing their terrorist associations. Hah! Afterwards we strolled to the nearby streets that were packed with Shwarma joints, and tons of desi shops owned by Pakis. So many pakis here!! My urdu came in quite handy here, and it got us farther than our Spanish had thus far! We had some kick ass chuplee kebabs from a guy named Rafiq, and he even brought out his Briyani stash from the back. We ate at this place the next day too, it was damn good! I met a few of the shopkeepers who recognized me as Paki, and by the second day walking around, everyone saw me on the street and was like "Hey Ali!" or "Array Doc Saab! Ki haal hai?!" I was basically known by the whole district by day 2 as the Paki doctor from America. It was quite funny. My Indian friends of course, were scared as ever.....
The Alhambra we saw the next day. A whole day it takes really, as it is enormous and breathtaking and you really want to spend time seeing it. The palace at night is supposed to be an amazing sight as well, but we couldnt get tickets. We barely got tickets for this day! Make sure to get tickets at least a WEEK in advance, lukcily our hotel bailed us out! The Alhambra is a beautiful example of Islamic architecture from that age. The Palace Nazaries is quite a site. Many stunningly decorated rooms of brick, wood, and adobe. Mazes of rooms, castles, melded with the indoors and open airs with patios, plenty of beautiful pools with emphasis again on water, lines of arches and double arches holding up walls, and huge domed buildings are just a few of the elements you will see here. Symmetric and repetitive artistic creations ofblue and white tiling, with the geometrically shaped arrangements of triangles, and squares, and interlocking shapes dominate the art you see here. The amazing engravings of Kufic script along so many of the walls reciting verses and prayers of the Koran, alongside structures of soapstone, granite, and beautiful marble, which must have taken forever to do! But so precise and decorated almost some aspect of every room, wall or door. Each room and area has some history of its own as well. Composed of living quarters, adminstrative and business areas, guestrooms, brothels, and of course areas to just chill.
Just outside takin up most of the acres of land is the amazing gardens. The gardens stretch for what must be several square kilometres, and as the Alhambra itself is situated on a hill, you have an amazing view of the city of Granda below, and the snowcapped mountains on the backdrop. They sure knew how to pick the location! Along the gardens overlooking the city is another patio-like structure, almost like a super-gazebo, which offers another amazing view. Next to the palace and gardens is the Alcazaba, or the fortress/lookout, with walls and towers. The main tower had a great view of the city for miles and miles, front and back, no doubt used as the lookout. Below in the middle were underground dungeons and cisterns which you can still see the walls of, where I'm sure the Moors imprisoned and tortured many a people! On the other side was the Generalife. Which was the amazing gardens of the sultans. Quite beautiful I must say, lined with gardens, pools, patios, and everything that just let the imaginations of the architects let loose. Definitely not to be missed! Again all these words I say can not do it justice. Check out my pictures for sure if you are on my facebook...
Well here is a link to the photos, I guess if some random person sees them, so what right? There are two links.. Both are all of Andalucia, The first structure you'll see is the Mezquita in Cordoba. Granada starts in the middle of the first Album, into the second... The other cities you'll see are Marbella, and Gibraltar at the end in these photos..
Ive heard from just about every desi out there about Allhambra and the beauty of the Islamic influence in Spain.. but never about the fact that the Pakis had taken over Spain as well! lol awesome... something to look fwd to when I plan my trip there!
Posted by: Isheeta | May 12, 2008 at 06:41 PM
Granada is great. You get free tapas with a drink every fri n saturday night. great if yer homeless or poor etc. Hence the ermm, pa**i thing?
Posted by: Traffic Spain | September 20, 2008 at 07:13 AM
too many Pakistanis in Spain, what a shame. No respect for spanish culture.... ALL men, all single, only Doner kebab and grocery stores, that never close on Sunday or for siesta, puts locals out of business.
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