Pics and other stuff

From the foot of Roque Nublo towards Altavista This time round, I and a few other people were let down by the local public transport sy...

Absolutely spectacular and very, very black ashes on Cráter del Duraznero , formed in 1949 The Volcano Route , Ruta de los Volcanes, on ...

View west from the viewpoint, La Aldea de San Nicolás to the left A walk along the crest of Altavista, or Azaenegue in aboriginal langua...

La Aldea de San Nicolás to the left. To the right, a new road. La Aldea de San Nicolás, or simply La Aldea, is the least accessible villa...

Smooth sandstone walls, arches, caves and grottoes While we continue to live in a situation where very few leisure things work*, we have ...

A small waterfall a bit off the path Finally, I’ve seen all three places where water always runs on Gran Canaria. Well, actually, there...

These pines kept their needles, although they are dry and yellow. I think they have a good chance of recovery. I was hoping to never wr...

Busy busy bees When the year is just starting and everything goes green, it is time to check on some of our favourite plants on Gran C...

Impressive cliffs of Tamadaba. After I went to see Cenobio de Valeron I've shown pics of it to my walking companions. One of them ...

Wonderfully weird and organic Cenobio de Valerón, “Valeron monastery”, is one of the iconic sights of Gran Canaria. It is not really ...

A Nevermore moment (see the black object on the top of the chapel? It is a raven, doing his thing) This year on our holidays I wanted t...

Horizontal panorama Some time ago I wrote that we would repeat the visit to the Barranco de Las Vacas following a linear route Temisas...

 Globularia sarcophylla, globe daisy endemic to Gran Canaria. Apparently it grows only in Tirajana. I've never seen it in the wild, ha...

Once again, Facebook brought me something useful — this time a reference to a place called Barranco de Las Vacas (Cows’ Ravine) between t...

Los Urros de Liencres panorama While Kirill had already lived and worked in Santander a couple of years ago, it was only this summer ...

Impressive cliffs, right? I suppose Guigui (pardon me for not going into all that umlaut nonsense from this point on*) is Gran Canari...

Here it is. At least one version of "it"* While winter lasts and walking conditions are favorable I try to do at least one hi...

As I suspected, when you start walking down from Cruz de Tejeda, you can see Roque Nublo. You just need a clear day for that A few week...

For Tamara’s birthday, we went for a short walk from (more or less) Las Lagunetas to Cruz de Tejeda. We often heard that Barranco de la Min...

View into the Valle de Agaete from the trail. There is a whole chain of reservoirs down there, some at alarmingly different levels from eac...