After our hike, we had driven first to Los Sauces when we decided to go down to the coast. The navigation led us next to the church on a road which was right at the beginning as steep as a staircase in a building. Luckily, an oncoming pick-up driver warned us not to take this road, as it would be much too dangerous for us. He indicated to take a route further north. To be sure, Cordy looked up the route of the local bus, and we followed the route the buses are taking, which was perfect.
Near the Charco Azul, there is a big, level parking, which has places specially for campers! How nice is that! From there, we explored the coast to San Andrés, didn’t go for a swim, but had a delightful lunch at the Mesón del Mar and visited the Aldea Distilleries, just next to our parking.
We would call this part of La Palma “The Banana coast”, as from the villages down to the sea the whole mountain was covered with banana plantations, luckily nearly all without plastic covers, like we had seen them in Tenerife. Did you know that the very young bananas are not round but square-cut?
From Charco Azul we travelled further up the coast, to the next rock pool at La Fajana, where another parking for campers, including a service station, was making camper life easy at La Palma.
In La Fajana, the waves were much higher than at the East Coast, and watching them crash against the rocks was a pleasure.
Tomorrow we will round the north of La Palma – more next!