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== Accommodation ==
=== Camping ===
If you talk to nice people in the Albayzin, they may be able to help direct you to some nice camping spots near the caves in the hills of Sacromonte. However, prepare for a bit of a hike with heavy gear.
Anyway, you can find spots to camp outside the city on your own: from Albayzin it's not far to the woods above the city.
=== Couchsurfing ===
There is a weekly couchsurfing meeting in Granada (Winter 2009/2010 it was each Wednesday) in Granada - Time and place in Granada's couchsurfing group. You might have some luck to find a couch, just going to that meeting and get to know hosts for a night.
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'''Free entrance to al Hambra''' : Al Hambra is the most impressive and visited Granada monument, very beautiful but very expensive though, about 15E with no reduction (maybe 10 for students), Free entrance are options are 2:
1) a bit more "legal" is the free resident ticket. Every first sunday of the month or every sunday (check with locals) the entrance is free for every citizen living in Granada. You can just ask your Couchsurfer, some friend or anyone also have a rent contract to falsify it and put on it also your name. At the office they won't check it, and they will issue a free ticket for you. The problem is that tickets are very few and normally are already finished the monday before. so you will probably be obliged to follow option 2
2) is the classical free entrance to any open monument (not a church, building, cave or anything else with only one entrance) and consist in find a spot to enter the net and later behave as a normal tourist. In AlHambra is quiet complicate cause is full of guards and checker at every entrance (they control your ticket at the entrance of any building). Just take a map of the area at the main office, it's not that detailed but it's free. You will have to enter from the hill of the "Generalife" palace, is the farest one, you can join it also from albaicin quarter. Climb up the hill a little, you wll find lots of paths. At a certain point you will see a net, holes in lots of points, just pass under it but it's not finished. You will be inside Generalife area but normally tourists can't go there so you will have to enter tourists path without make you notice and it's not very easy. Just check your map and wait for the right moment. Your luck will help you. Once in, enjou the gardens, follow all paths in the wrong sense, but ''' once in the area never enter any building from the entrance, they will ask u for the ticket''' , now you are just as the other tourists don't worry. Enter Nazaries palaces (the most amazing area, they have scheduled time and neither paying tourists can enter them back twice) will be almost impossible but you may try your luck as well.
* I entered AlHambra for free (Jan 2012) in the only rainy day of andalusia but enjoyed as well. I was about to enter also Nazaries palaces cause there were open works in progress but they caught me. I just explained I wanted to stay more, they smiled me, said was not possible and let me go. I could visit the rest of the complex though without the ticket..[[User: Fedecicco|Fedecicco]]
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Granada ([http://maps.google.es/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=13&ll=37.201894,-3.607292&spn=0.088191,0.131664 map]) has a national motorway called A44 just around the city. There are many exits on this motorway. When you are on the A44, wait for exits with direction city center. The driver can easily get off and on the A44, in either direction.
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