After our hike in the mist, just driving down a little had brought us to an entirely different weather with sun and nice temperatures. Our first stop was at the La Peña lookout, designed by César Manrique Cabrera, a Spanish artist, sculptor, and nature activist from Lanzarote, who built many outstanding buildings on the Canary […]
From La Restinga, we had driven up to the Mirador de Las Playas. The playas (beaches) were about 1,000 metres below us and the view was spectacular. Even short after sunset, we had a good view of La Gomera, Tenerife and especially the Teide. We were already back at the car, when the colours of
From El Sabinar we had continued down the mountains to the sea. From green pastures, we came into the lava fields of the south. The lighthouse of Orchilla marks since 1933 the south-western tip of the islands for the seafarers. At the Embarcadero there was a parking and some infrastructure, even the possibility for a
We have heard about the famous trees of El Hierro, the Sabinas, a juniper tree which bends down to withstand the strong winds. The Sabina is the symbol of the island, included in their coat of arms and El Sabinar is the place to find them, so we left our mountain and drove down over
