We had booked a tour of the Lower St. Michaels cave and had cleared the waitlist 2 nights before, but the night before we received a message via phone that the tour was cancelled due to operational reasons. Our backup plan (and original) was DIY to the cable car up the mountain to explore and say "We have climbed the "Rock Of Gibraltor" and walk down into town to go shopping. We did a short walk through town to get to the cable car and had no idea how long the wait would be but it ended up being about 2 hours. My best advice for anyone going up (which I didn't realize till I got to the front) is you can pre-buy your tickets online and save a lot of time. There is one cable car going up and one going down that holds about 15-20 people.
Once we got to the top we had a lot of fun taking pics of the Barbary apes and holding onto all our belongings with our dear lives. There were a lot babies and these monkeys are known to grab your glasses, hats , purses and anything else. As we started out we saw a monkey with someone's wallet and a wad of money and sunglasses. I have no idea where the owner was. After we had our fill of taking pics we headed towards the upper cave and did a quick tour of it. Because we had a long wait for the cable car we thought we shouldn't go too slow through the whole walk. These are the upper caves and are about 10 pounds to get in. When we came out we headed down the hill and skipped the apes den since we saw so many all ready and went towards the seige tunnel. There are signs but it does get a little confusing. So we kind of accidentally missed it but found the exit where someone stopped us and said you could only do a guided tour. Oh well, down the hill we went past the Moorish castle and back into town. I think if I was to do it ever again I would either do the taxi/local tour that drives you to the top and to each stop or if I was going to do the cable car pre buy my tickets so I wouldn't feel so rushed. All in all we had a great day and lots of laughs and screams.
Caught by surprise!!
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