Mijas donkey taxi capital of the world.

 Neither of us fancied wandering around Marbella (we have always pictured it as being the Blackpool of Spain). We instead booked an excursion through the cruise line to a little Village  called Mijas about 3/4 of an hour drive from Marbella, famous for its donkey taxis. When we got there, it proved our theory about Marbella to be correct. Don't get me wrong it was a beautiful village but you could tell that it has been modernised to cater for coaches and  lots of cars. It was only a short excursion, with a 30 minute guided tour and a couple of hours to explore the village and its numerous tat shops, local leather goods being their speciality.









There was also a tiny Bullring there which was open to public viewing, which only seated 300 people, the walls of the entrance was full of plaques displaying the names of all the bull fighters who had performed there since it was opened in 1900 by demand of the locals. Also a tiny chapel for the bullfighters to pray for a safe end to the day(well at least for them anyway).














In the little square near the donkey taxi rank was a viewpoint which afforded us with a spectacular view down the valley to Fuengirola on the coast.






Pongo and Perdita signing off .




 


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