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Cabo de Las Huertas Ghost Town

Despite the "tourist siege" (crowds) in central Alicante, the Cabo de Las Huertas part felt almost died-out, ghost-townish.
Because I expected more dynamism, I felt somewhat disappointed, then I tried enjoying the quietness...

Why there were so few people at Cabo de Las Huertas is still a mystery to me.

I can only speculate on this... perhaps because of the Spanish real estate bubble, this area of Alicante was a bit overbuilt. Too many buildings, too many accommodation facilities for much lower demand...

"The Cabo" area is a large part of Alicante, but mostly composed of apartment homes, hotels. Visibly, there are less people who actually live in this northern part of the city.

My trip to the Cabo de Las Huertas, where the vast San Juan Beach is found, was a quiet escape.
On one particular day, I was able to walk for miles and barely encounter a dozen people or so... But this might not always be like this.

A few drizzles might have scared people away from the beach, but overall the weather was fine. So, rain wasn't the reason, the weather was burning hot when I arrived.

I tried to enjoy the quietness, there's something in this too. The ghost-townish surrounded me everywhere...

I passed by dozens and dozens of high-rise apartment blocks and hotels and I barely found a few markets, shops, restaurants.

The Cabo de Las Huertas area is terrible for eating out. It took about an hour to get myself food and something to drink.

Strangely enough, I enjoyed this experience too... The quietness, the lack of noise... But on the longer term, it can become dead-boring.

It was dead-quiet in this "ghost town" and I felt a bit like in a sci-fi movie in which people have disappeared from the streets...

A few days later I headed for hot bustling (and busty!) Benidorm for a really hot, intense beach experience.

Having spent 3 nights here and only 2 nights in the central Alicante area, I came to the conclusion that I should have stayed longer in the beautiful historic central area.

Staying there is worth a thousand times more than at this ghost-townish Cabo de Las Huertas, where there's barely anything beautiful to see besides the beach and a few peculiar modern buildings.

This part of Alicante is a vast house block area. Concrete jungle. A place where barely a few souls on the streets.

But, if you want to have that peculiar experience of not seeing many people on the streets and enjoying the weird ghost town-ish feeling, then this might be the right place for you.

One thing would motivate me to revisit this place and that's the San Juan Beach. But, considering the better beaches just a short ride away, I don't intend to return to the Cabo anytime soon.

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