Lanzarote in the Canary Islands

Lanzarote

José Antonio and Charity begins on holiday in Lanzarote to rent a car. They clearly do not want to ride a camel and his first tour of Timanfaya fascinating. It's like a Zen garden of sand and rocks to the horizon expanded. Each volcanic cone is so perfect and is so well individualized in the landscape as a piece of a nativity scene. The black earth seems invisible swept by a court of Buddhist monks. And in this great geological model, every rock, every crevice, every bomb and every lava stream seem prepared in the right place. Sober design, the maximum effect.


The only human footprint is the road and your partner is getting ready to leave. They have so many months without touching the ground, from home to work and work at home!. Already reeling under their feet the volcanic gravel-balsamic whisper when it strikes your eardrums a shrill whistle. From a hill a guard beckons them to retreat. They did the Swedes, but in Timanfaya is forbidden to tread.

While the council does to protect this garden ore tourists. There are no thousands of feet crisscrossing them all, sweep away dunes and lava running down, month after month. The erosive power of the elements!.

Our couple are staying in Costa Teguise. Not bad. In fact Costa Teguise largely respected the rules of the architecture of Lanzarote, low houses, plants and local materials, some integration with the landscape, and provides multiplied ad nauseam everything a tourist needs: beach, hotel, supermarket, kiosk, mailbox, a souvenir shop, pizzeria, restaurant, telephone, hair salon and car hire. But that was it. Want to see a regular street people, a bar with retirees, a place where schoolchildren play?. Then take the car. "Fishing boats, a church, a popular market?. Not here. Eat wrinkled potatoes, cheese majonero, stew, stew canary frangollo, bienmesabe?. What, you say?.