A Visit To Benidorm, Spain
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The region of the Costa Blanca Spain is one of the most popular tourist destinations, and Benidorm is at the heart of this region. Benidorm is 45 kilometers east of Alicante, another popular destination, and it really hops during the summer season. With thirty discos and a thousand restaurants, it is no wonder it is so popular. Many vacationers from the U.K. and Ireland find this the ideal place for sun and fun.
You can choose among many attractions in Benidorm. Try the Castle of Conde de Alfaz for a wonderful dinner show of jousting knights. To make it even more fun, you can choose a knight’s “colors” to support. While the jousting, with all of the armor, fencing and swordplay that entails goes on, you can enjoy a medieval dinner of soup, roasted meats and potatoes. Sangria and beer are served and to top it off, a dessert of ice cream.
Benidorm Palace also offers a spectacular floor show. Every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, they hold a dinner show that features dancing and singing, as well as comedy and magic acts.
Most people prefer to spend their days lying on Benidorm’s fabulous beaches. If you like a beach with a lot of action, you should visit Playa de Poniente. Since it is on the main road, it is easy to get to and therefore gets lots of visitors. If you like something a little quieter, you can relax on Playa de Levane.
When you do tire of the sand and the sun, there is still plenty to do. There is a popular water park called Aqualandia, with waterslides, swimming pools, a river ride and large slides such as the Zig Zag and the Kamikaze. You can gather from the name they are not for the little ones. But they do have an Adventureland areas that is perfect for them, with smaller slides, fountains, pools and even a labyrinth.
Another theme park to visit is the Terra Mitica. This one specializes in Ancient History, and each of its areas features a different civilization. The legends and stories from each area is featured in displays, and they each have restaurants that specialize in the foods of that areas. The shops continue the theme by offering souvenirs reminiscent of the area, so you will be able to buy candles from Iberia, Greek statues or an Egyptian papyrus.
Mundomar Aquatic Park is a great park for families. You and your children will learn all about marine mammals and how they adapt. They have shows with seals and sea lions performing. There is a large number of dolphins who not only call this park home, but have even been born there. Visit the galleon and from the inside of it, you watch the dolphins playing in the water. And there are many species of penguins for you to view and enjoy. There is a park section in Mundomar for the children with slides and swings to play on and ramps, nets and bridges to jump over and rock climbing wall.
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November 16th, 2008 at 4:42 am
Can someone please highlight the main tourism problems in benidorm, spain i wud really appreciate it?
it has to be problems with its tourism only and could u really expand on ideas, any at all wud be great,(people who have visited Benidorm, i wud like ur thoughts too) i'm trying to get a good grade in my geography project
November 16th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Hi, well there´s plenty. Main ones though, are:
- Urban Overdevelpment . Too many buildings quite crowded and built at a time when there was no urban planning. Also too many skyscraper type of buildings and apartments.
- Overcrowding. Because of the cheap prices and type of tourism, as well as the above mentioned urvan excesses. Too mant tourist can be fit there so too often, specially summer months is overcrowded.
- Overcrowded beaches. You must look hard to find a place to put a martini size umbrella or sombrilla because the amount of people in the beach.
- Dirty water. Human polution in the meditterranean is ovbious but some places have more problems than other.
Benidorm really has not clear water because so many bathers bathing at saame time with sun creams and the works.
- Lack of good drinking water. Again as most of the Meditterranean coast the lack of good drinking water has been a huge problem and it means that everyone has too buy drinking water from stores. This can be a pain if you are many and because of the heat, thirst is normal, so you need to buy many litters of water at the local grocery.
- Desertification: This is also a general mediterranean problem. Southern wind often brings clouds of sand from the Sahara and combined with the lack of water and the overexplotation of agricultural resources means that the process of desertification afecting the South and mid spanih areas is quite worrying. Although theyare building desalinization plants to obtain "sweet" water from sea water by removing the salt, water restrictions are common and means water cuts several times a day if the season has been a dry one. Gobal warming is increasing this problem.
- Contamination: The type of tourism market attracts cheap tourism which often is not very educated and have no ecological concerns, they visit only few days and are not worried about the state of our beaches and land, so they dump all kind of trash platic bottles, bags etc all over and despite cleaning efforts by local authorities it is poluting the countryside and beaches.
- Plus points are guaranteed sun, guaranteed apartment and hotel places and goos enetertainment and vacation infrastructure lots of discos, bars, attractions etc which people enjoy. And many people seem to like to go to crowded places.
Hope it helps U!
SF
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