FONTS DE L'ALGAR

Places to visit Costa Blanca ... FONTS DE L'ALGAR.

Fonts De L'Algar - not everything its cracked up to be.





The Fonts de l'Algar ... where to start ? ...

Lets start by saying that the price ticket on this Costa Blanca place to visit is a little steep for what you get ... I understand that the upkeep and improvement of these Spanish tourist attractions has to be accounted for in some way ... but lets keep it in perspective.
Maybe I was just in a bad mood that day ... but 5 euro a head plus 4 euro to park ...
(if I remember rightly) seemed "mucho dinero" for about a 3 or 4 hundred metre walk along a stream with waterfalls and back the same way.

TIP : If you go to the Algar falls by car ... don't use the first car park you see ... there are around six car parks ... drive right to the entrance to the Algar falls ... turn around & use the closest car park ... if I remember rightly the first car park we saw must have been about 1km from the actual entrance to the Fonts De L'Algar.

The Fonts de l'Algar were apparently given a huge face lift in March of 2008, possibly why they are charging so much money.
Before we went (April 2009) I looked on Google Images & the photos on Google Earth which gave me an idea of what to expect ... or should have done ...
nothing like ... absolutely nothing like. Some of those photos showed quite big falls with a pool underneath and people bathing in the pools, whereas at the place we went to ... nothing of the kind could be achieved ... maybe we were in the wrong place ?
I think not ...

Anyway all was not lost ... on the exit from the Algar Falls visit, we saw the sign to the Botanical Garden centre Cactus D'Algar ...
lets try that ... we thought ...
but guess what - they wanted another 3€ per head to enter this place.
If you look at the sign ... maybe I was just getting the finger that day.
Joking aside ... it was not a bad day out ... and we will go back to the Cactus D'Algar sometime in the future.



The area around the Fonts de l'Algar is typical Spanish countryside - but despite there being signs with various wildlife species listed ... we saw nothing ...
where is all the wildlife in the Costa Blanca ?