Pics and other stuff

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

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...

Impressive cliffs The second walk we’ve done in a very short stretch of time — we are all worried that our long awaited freedom will be ...

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

Do you see a camel on the left and an elephant on the right? The amusingly-shaped stone arch above is called Ventana del Bentayga , Wind...

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...

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...

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...

We spent almost all summer in Gran Canaria. Which was nice, but, for a bit of change, we went to La Gomera for five days. We took the early...

Up and away I am sure I said it a few times already, but let me say it once again — Caldera de Tejeda on Gran Canaria is the most spec...

Barranco de las Nieves, or maybe de las Laguentas, or maybe de la Mina. Go figure My legs!!! Three days later, they're still hurtin...

The main purpose of the walk was to see this We went for an evening walk to Pico de las Nieves organised by Couchsurfing Gran Canaria. ...

A couple of weeks ago we went for a weekend break in Firgas, a small village inland from the north shore of Gran Canaria. We were stay...