We discovered these last year, it is a walk thru the botanical gardens on the north side of Malaga, it is still somewhat strange even after three years with daytime temperatures that can get up to 15-20C to walk round a Christmas light show. You also have some great views over some of Malaga.
As we commented on the other week when we were at a well known Swedish furniture store and they had a display of outdoor garden furniture or setup for use over Christmas.
They have a different theme every year, this year was all about the journey of the three kings, which is a very specific festival in Spain, it is Epiphany and marks the conclusion of the Christmas season and return to work / school for Spain. Schools in Spain and typically closed for three weeks at Christmas only opening after Epiphany, which is January 6th. Lots of offices are essentially closed as people tend to take time off to be with family.
The light show opens at 1830 and if you ever want to go my advice would be book for 1830 slot as the car park fills up quickly.
Last year the temperature had starting dropping to below 10C at night and it was actually relatively cold, this year the rainy season had arrived, typically it rains around 30 days a year on the Costa del Sol, during November and March. When it rains it does tend to rain "tropical style", the good thing about it is it fills up the reservoirs nicely and provides plenty of snow for the Sierra Nevada resort just outside Granada, which opened last weekend.
If anything the rain made some of the light shows more impressive and unlike the UK it didn't feel cold and damp, even in the rain it was warm. We were also planning to go on into Malaga itself to see the Christmas lights but with the weather we decided to head home and go out for dinner. We'll save those lights for next week.
We are going to the lights in Windsor Great Park in the UK over the Christmas holidays we'll see how that goes.
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