Andalucia & Costa del Sol Things to Do

So you’re staying in Málaga, and Morocco seems so close that you can almost taste it. But apart from setting sail in your only little dinghy, what options to you really have to get there?

With a brisk winter in the rearview mirror and an extra-hot summer on the horizon, there’s no better time to discover the beauty of Andalucia than in the spring. Here are just a few of the seasonal highlights.

Located just 12 kilometers west of Málaga, Spain, you’ll find another popular seaside of resort town: Benalmádena.

Whales and dolphins really like the waters where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea, the area which in Spain is the southernmost point at Tarifa, heading east past Gibraltar and on to the Costa del Sol. This higher salinity of the Mediterranean meeting the lower-salt Atlantic causes a unique food chain for these sea-living mammals.

There’s really nowhere quite like Gibraltar. A little piece of England looking out from Spain to the coast of Morocco, with a rock fabled in ancient mythology and the only wild monkey population in Europe. Quite a cocktail, huh?