First day: Direction north-west coast, heading to the pirate cave
at “Mirador del Time” ; on the right the marina and in the middle in the background the village of Tazacorte 
still from up the cliffs, now seeing Los Llanos 
on our very steep way to the Prois or caves of Candelaria 
…. 
the steep and curly downhill street; it does not look very steep, but me being on the co-driver’s seat, I was freaking out and pushing the bottom of the car to try to break 😂 
the path down to 
the coastal enclave with some houses built in the caves; the local has to carry everything down there by foot; the man was carrying concrete bags 
the houses and the pool 
and the view from the cave side 
the walk through the “pedestrian” area 
the only way down to the cave unless you come from the sea 
the magic picture of La Palma is possible to take from Prois, the silhouette shape of the island reminds of an almond 
here one can see how they were built into the rocks, 
the cave village from a different angle 
me being brave walking up/down to the pirate cave 
with a gorgeous view
Following the LP1 road from the west coast around the north tip to the east side of the island
enjoying the view from a lookout near by Garafia (Santo Domingo) to the north 
and to the south 
a typical rock plant 
a burned area between Garafia and Llano Negro 
here one can see that the fire fortunately stopped just before the house 
the smallest Ikea in the world I’d guess 
with maybe 200 square meters? There’s only a little showroom everything else you have to order online first. Funny 
crossing from Santa Cruz to Tazacorte through “Parque Natural de Cumbre”, it was veeeeery beautiful 
and we felt like being in fairy tail forest, stunning! 
this was on the other side of the ridge, a different 
impression and as well an area where it did burn a couple of years ago 
yet amazing 
to see the flora returning 
fog in the valley 
stretching the feet after a day of sitting in the car 
strolling through Puerto Tazacorte 
and enjoying the beach view
Second day: First stop at
“Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente”
We were lucky to enter the park without a registration, usually it is necessary to book in advance but due to corona we could get a permit to enter the park immediately. There are only 20 parking spaces available. The visitor center coordinates the entrances 
just some impressions… 
rocks with a kind of moss, which is hard to see; the yellow and orange parts 
clouds coming over the top 
erosion exposes the roots 
having a break with a homemade sandwich 
walking down an easy path, that’s what I like 
it was cloudy the day we were there but we were still lucky not to get wet as we realised that it did rain on the other side of the rocks 
here 
the path
Heading to the ” Roque de los Muchachos” the highest peak of La Palma
this chicken stopped us 😉 
one needs to watch sharply but then one can see Tenerife, well at least Teide 
our little car 
close to the “Mirador de los Andenes”, again a very different landscape 
very impressive 
with amazing vertical stone layers 
and stone formation, here a wall, which looks man made 
more layers 
and one of the huge telescopes of the close by observatory; unfortunately it was closed for visitors at the time (and still is) 
we reached the top “Rocque de los Muchachos”, altitude 2426 meters 
it looks like snow but we were just on top of the cosy clouds 
… 
it would have been an 
amazing view; still we enjoyed it very much 
on our way back the landscape changed again so fast 
wine yards 
with pine trees 
young wine 
back in Tazacorte, enjoying the sunset and a light dinner 
a little concert at the church square; it was the day of “Caballos Fufos” without covid 19 there would have been a big fiesta in Tazacorte with crazy men running around disguised as horses, the costume are made out of paper, but…🤷♀️
Third day: Kind of a museum tour, first heading south at the west coast to Fuencaliente and then up the east side of the coast to the “Cascada de los Tilos”
this is how it looked like only a few km south of Tazacorte, the landscape is already quite sharp 
by chance we run into the interpretation center “Caños del Fuego” (fire tubes) 
the center was born due to the discovery of a group of volcanic tubes in the area of Las Manchas, formed by lava from the eruption of volcano San Juan in 1949 
we had guided access to one of the tubes 
including a lot of explanation, which I have already forgotten…
our planned stop was “Plaza la Glorieta” 
in Las Manchas 
it is a nice little plaza ornamented with 
extravagant mosaic works depicting 
motifs of the Palmerian flora and fauna; Luis Morera, a famous artist of La Palma and student of Manrique 
has created this treasure; though to be honest, it was nice to visit but for us not a must see… 
here we had a stop at the “Cueva de Belmaca” in Villa de Mazo an archaeological park 
which used to be inhabited by the Guanche; 
the life and culture of the Canarian natives is explained in and around the cave. . 
the cave engravings are of Guanche origin, hard to see
here is some help😉 
a “room” 
and the modern access to the caves 
and some explanations
Now we finally headed to the waterfall of Los Tilos
The waterfall is located in the north-eastern mountainous landscape of the Island, the Parque Natural de Las Nieves which was declared Biosphere Reserve by the UNESCO back in 1983. The books say “it displays its greatest beauty in Barranco del Agua. Its watercourse has been moulded by the unceasing flowing of waters through thousands of years: erosion has given shape to a deep ravine where laurislva, redoubt of the Tertiary Era, grows.”
a stop close to Puntallana, a sight of the bay of Santa Cruz 
here we were waiting to get a green light (it was red) for -it felt like ten minutes- without any car passing 
finally we reached the top of Barranco del Agua 
to get to the 
narrow ravine 
with its varied vegetal world 
to reach the cascade 
some pics from 
different 
point 
of 
views 
and 
impressions 
the Centro de Visitantes offers information about the main ecosystems to be found within this 511-hectare Park
SY Altimate 
Hi Sabine and Norbert
Ich habe schon ein paar mal versucht an euch zu schreiben.
Mache es wohl irgendwie falsch.
Die Fotos und Atikel sind super.
Hoffe, dass diese Nachricht an euch weiter geht.
Liebe Grüsse
Judith
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