After 2 hours sleep we jumped on a bus to Bunol a small town 1hr from Valencia. As be arrived thousands of people piled into the main streets. We were entertained by locals throwing water off their balconies and one man who had his garden hose out watering everyone. Another man kept tossing huge drums of water onto the crowds probably knocking people over, it was really funny.
In the middle of the square there is a big ham up the top of the pole covered in lard. People made human towers to reach the ham and when someone grabs the ham the fight starts. This was the first time in a few years that someone actually was able to reach the ham and the gun went off at 11am and the fight started. Four trucks piled high with tomatoes dumped thousands of tomatoes in the streets and tomatoes then the tomatoes went flying. The ground turned into a pile of ketchup. We were covered from head to toe with bits of tomato.
It was really hot waiting for the fight to start so locals were throwing buckets of water onto the crowd to keep us cool.
Someone attemping to reach the ham so the festival can begin
Tomatoes start flying
Chaos in the streets as Tomatoes fly everywhere.
One of the big trucks bringing the tomatoes through the streets
Karen getting right into it
Luckily we had our waterproof camera as by now its covered in tomato juice
The ground turns to ketchup
The trucks full of tomatoes keep coming
Tomatoes flying everywhere
We got a hose down by locals on the streets that had their garden hoses out.
We caught up with our friend Frank from Pamplona and his friends for dinner and a few drinks.
The narrowest house in the world in the old city of Valencia
Check out these ice cream flavours.............salmon, anchovies, tomato, green peppers.
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