Pics and other stuff

Amazing color of the Yellow Mountain, Montaña Amarilla The last time me and Timur went to La Graciosa, the smallest of the inhabited Ca...

Small development next to the lighthouse looks Santorini-esque under the hot Canarian sun By now I walked most of Gran Canaria and lik...

Million euro view Pico de Las Nieves is the highest point of Gran Canaria, some 1,949 metres above sea level. Except it's not real...

Finally! A decent pic from the top. Shadow of Papa Teide on the morning mist and anticrepuscular rays I know it probably sounds ridicul...

Shallow lagoon Bahia de Salino filling with water in high tide Ok, with all the excitement of the wildfire over, the academic year ha...

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...

Beautiful water. Playa Mujeres This year’s summer holidays were a bit scrambled for us, due to this and that. To punctuate the month of...

An eruption? A wildfire? Nah... After years living on Gran Canaria I have identified for myself the three main "hanami" events...

Alien tentacles! Cthulhu raising to the surface! Tremble, you feeble humans... etc When I went up the Mount Teide two years ago I didn...

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...

Somebody switched on an enormous spotlight behind Amurga massif. On one of our very first visits to Gran Canaria we booked a stay in a...

I liked this stage of the sunrise the most — the cone of shadow under Roque Bentayga was spectacular An excursion to greet the first ra...

Christmas tree decoration in the Barranco Guiniguada, between Triana and Vegueta I want to have a break from all things hiking and show ...

So far, this is probably my favorite kite ever. It was there all these years, I think. I even have it on the cover screen of my laptop. L...

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...

Wow. I'd never seen a firework blast like this before Every Year, Saint John's Eve is celebrated in the beautiful city of Las Pa...