2017 Hike La Palma Puerto Tazacorte to Mirador del Time Rother nr 36

Mike left the Tazacorte Marina at around 0900 hrs and walked to the Puerto Tazacorte

The impressive cliff which was about to be scaled

 

The hike (part of hike nr 36 in The Rother Walking Guide), starts at the side of the Kiosco Teneguia on the GR-131

 

Starting to gain height - looking back towards the marina

 

The hike zig-zags up the steep rock face

With continuous wonderful views

 

 

The circular fish farms moored 1/2 mile off the coast

 

Looking over the Barranco de las Angustias

 

Having reached the top of the cliff, the trail continues upwards following a series of local cobbled and concrete roads

 

Through the Banana plantations

 

 

Reached the Mirador del Time at 10.55 hrs

 

 

For a welcome cup of tea and Bailley chocolate cake - yummy!

View from the Mirador over the Barranco de las Angustias with Los Llanos and Tazacorte clearly visible
 

 

Bananas everywhere

 

After refreshments, continued up the GR-131 towards the Torre del Time

 

 

Views into the Caldera de Taburiente to the left

At 11.50 hrs reached crossroads my path would leave the GR-131 and head to the right 

 

Under the irrigation water pipes

 

Back down to the Barranco de las Angustias - Los Llanos clearly in view

 

 

The trail zig-zaged down crossing the LP-1 road several times

 

 

Meandering through the banana plantations

 

Crossing the LP-1

 

down, down, down

 

 

The footbridge across the Barranco de las Angustias

 

Croossed the footbridge to gain access to the barranco

 

Then followed the barranco back to Puerto Tazacorte

 

Soon entered a gorge which had been formed from countless years of errosion in the barranco floor

 

 

Eventually reached the beach of Puerto Tazacorte

Looking back up the Barranco de las Angustias from the road bridge
 

And walked back to the marina arriving back on Dutch Link at 14.30 hrs -  A very very enjoyable hike!

The track of my walk as recorded by the very useful ViewRanger app on my Ipad plus VR generated statistics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2016 Hike La Palma Volcan Teneguia and San Antonio, Rother nr 46

0930 hrs 28th September 2016 drove with Tom and Annie from the Santa Cruz marina to Lo Canarios at the southern tip of La Palma. 

This map is from the ViewRanger App

 

Parked on the road leading to the Centro de Visitantes Volcan San Antonio 

 

 

and walked south down the black volcanic ash track towards the Faro de Fuencaliente - Hike nr 46 Rothers Walking Guide.

 

 

 

 

Our first objective, the Teneguia Volcano which was formed by an eruption on 26th October 1971 and continued till 18 November

 

 The Teneguia Volcano

 

Climbing the Teneguia Volcano 

 

The summit of  the Teneguia Volcano - 439 m

 

The flatish land along the coast here is a coastal shelf formed by the lava flow from the 1971 eruption - it is now used to grow Bananas

 

The saltpans and Punta de Fuencaliente Lighthouse were amazingly not affected by the 1971 lava flows.

 

Looking northwards at the San Antonio Volcano which erupted in 1677

 

After climbing the Teneguia Volcano we returned to the car via the San Antonio Volcano. 

This involved climbing a very steep volcanic ash slope

 

Almost at the top

 

Looking into the pine forested San Antonio crater from the crater rim

 

Continuing clockwise around the crater rim

 

Looking back at Volcano Teneguia

 

Continuing around the rim

 

 

Looking over the crater to Los Canarios

 

 

After returning to the car we stopped at this Bodega to sample the famous Malmsey desert wine - this is the largest area for the Malmsey vines on La Palma - growing on the volcanic ash from the 1677 San Antonio eruption. The vines on La Palma were planted in the 15th century by the first European settlers.    Phylloxera devastated two thirds of the mainland vineyards in the 19th century. The relative isolation of the Canary Islands protected them from this disaster thus conserving all the strains that had become acclimatised to the islands

 

We then drove to the Faro de Fuencaliente - there are two - the old disused one predates the 1971 eruption

 

Close to the lighthouse is a large area of saltpans where sea salt is still being comercially produced

 

There is a 30 minute selfguided tour of the saltpans where several information boards

 

Looking north towards the volcanos

 

 

Passed this neat little shrine? in the lava on the way back to the north