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 seehere 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
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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