We had decided to risk the drive up the mountain that day, in the hope that the weather would improve in the afternoon or that the clouds are hanging low enough. The road is good but very steep. We had 15% of increase and narrow hairpins all the way up. To be as light as […]
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There is a good road leading around the north of the island, just that it winds in innumerable bends along the mountains at a height up to 1100 metres above the sea. We saw the first cluster of Dragon trees, many steep valleys with cloud forests and came past a big pine. In the west,
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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
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We had chosen the Cubo de La Galga hike, to get into the cloud forest of La Palma. There is a parking, but with our big camper, we found a good spot at the old road, used before the tunnel was built. You can spot us in the left upper corner. It was overcast with
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We had left the coast, as the sea was making a lot of noise day and night, and had driven up the hill to some big supermarkets where we did our shopping and also stayed for the night. The next morning it was a splendid day, and we decided to walk from here to Breña
After arriving with the well-organised Fred Olsen Express, the big ship is one of the cruise ships loitering around the Canary Island, we found a parking close to the centre and walked through town. (28.6891, -17.7598) The boat in the background, “El Barco de la Virgen”, is an exact replica of a caravel, made in 1940 for
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Hermigua lies in a long valley, which ends at the beach where we had spent the night. There was a good parking in town next to the tourist information, but we continued to the Los Telares Museum. It was more of an outdoor museum of a typical farm of the valley, where we saw all
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One of the spectacular places at La Gomera is the Mirador de Abrante, a glass platform 600 metres above Agulo, standing out from the wall of rocks surrounding the village. We had decided to take the old path which leads straight up through the wall to get there. From below, we couldn’t imagine that there
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From Valle Gran Rey, we drove up into the mountains and then down to the west coast and the village of Alojera, which is famous for its palm trees and the “honey” the locals extract from them. First we filled up our water tank, as the village has one of the view water taps on
We were happy, when we drove down to Valle Gran Rey to see the sun come out again, after the rain and wind in the mountains. The valley is very spectacular with vertical walls on both sides. The fact that there is a good road leading down nowadays, seemed like a miracle. We had to
