Indian Chief Travel Guides

Costa del Sol: "Coast of the Sun"

Costa del Sol, or “Coast of the Sun,” is bathed in sun over 300 days out of the year and spoiled rotten to the core, all 150 over-developed kilometers (90 miles) of it down the southern Mediterranean coast, from the flats of Sotogrande in the west to the mountainous coastlines of Nerja in the east. It's part-enchantment, part-concrete and a helluva lot of foreigners frying on one of 50 beaches that enjoy an average temperature of 18°C (64°F).

This is Costa del Sol, with its English breakfasts and all-inclusive resorts, bingo and birdies to send your heart reeling, fancy yachts and filthy little fishing boats, sardines roasting on a beach spitfire and a caldron of paella outside Nerja large enough to cook five bad little boys, and people breathing under water and others sucking wind on mountain trails above Marbella. Nothing is missing.