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Road.199 views
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The walk along the trail is pleasant, but it was hot and humid and windless that day.199 views
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Green doorways.199 views
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Lanzarote landscape.199 views
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Green waves.198 views
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Moonscape.198 views
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Las Salinas del Carmen.197 views
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There is also a museum next to the lighthouse, but it was closed when we were there.197 views
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Patterns of the ground.197 views
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A red valley.197 views
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The view towards the west and the sea.197 views
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The dune.197 views
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We skipped breakfast and started at about 7 a.m., drove across the whole island and arrived at the town of Morro Jable at about 9 a.m. The place is quite touristy, but our main interest was the beach.196 views
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Terraces.196 views
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From the cliff.196 views
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No, I had no intention of going there anyway. ;)195 views
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Our car down below.195 views
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It reminded me of some Greek islands.194 views
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A very imaginative letter box.194 views
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A pile of salt.193 views
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A road divides the sea and the dunes.193 views
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To help you cross a wide belt of sand to get to the sea, there's a wooden path, but it's wobbly. Very wobbly. :)193 views
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The clouds were gracious enough to grant us one single sun ray. :)193 views
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A river snaking its way through the desert.192 views
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A bit more to the south there are the salt pans of Las Salinas. The light was terrible but at least there weren't many visitors so we had the place almost to ourselves.192 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.192 views
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Shores of an inland lake in Morocco.191 views
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Fuerteventura is a very windy island so people have made use of the wind power since ancient times. And yes, that's me. :)191 views
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Rolling hills.191 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.191 views
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A Moroccan town.190 views
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An older house. I love the lamp.190 views
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A coastal town on Lanzarote.189 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.189 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)189 views
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Peter at the top of the dune.188 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.188 views
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Our Opel Corsa.188 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)188 views
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A Cofete house.188 views
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The landscape between Corralejo and El Cotillo is just as deserted and barren as most of the island. Surprisingly, there were many stone fences.187 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.187 views
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A golf course on Lanzarote.186 views
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The area around the village of La Oliva is spectacular in its reddish colors.186 views
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The thunder of crashing waves is deafening.186 views
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Hard terrain mixed with the soft dunes.186 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.186 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.186 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.186 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.186 views
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Yellow dunes.185 views
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A small green forest. I mean really small.185 views
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Cofete.185 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.185 views
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Yes, there was one person! Miracle! :)184 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.184 views
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A dune.183 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)183 views
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From the road along the peninsula.183 views
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After a quick stop at the Lanzarote airport we took off again for a short hop to the next island.182 views
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Deserted sandy beach.182 views
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I don't know where all the inhabitants were, but we didn't see a soul.182 views
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Moon-like landscapes abound.181 views
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Curves.181 views
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One of the stops has regular visitors - little ground squirrel, which are so used to people they come running when they hear a car stopping.181 views
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Just before returning home we drove to the village of El Cottilo to admire the cliffs and long, wind-swept beaches.181 views
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This fortress overlooks the steep bay.181 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.181 views
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Apart from green, blue is also a popular color for house paint.180 views
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The village of Vega del Río de Palmas has a picturesque plaza with a church.180 views
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Faro del Tostón.180 views
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Cliffs in the distance.180 views
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... high above the sea ...179 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.179 views
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Our next stop was the village of Las Playitas.178 views
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An obligatory fish-eye shot. ;) Yes, the sea is almost 200 meters down below.178 views
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The church in Pájara with a lush and shady park.178 views
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Dune.178 views
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Small village Majanicho in the north. Again, no people anywhere.178 views
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At the end of the El Cotillo area there is Faro del Tostón, a red-and-white striped lighthouse.178 views
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To the south there is a series of sandy beaches and more cliffs in the distance.178 views
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It seemed odd to us that all towns and villages were incredibly deserted. There was nobody in sight. Did we land in the land of ghost towns?177 views
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Did I say I was through with patterns? ;)177 views
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Cactus detail.177 views
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A rock in the sand.177 views
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Typical colors: white and green.176 views
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There's a path to the nearby cliff which you can climb with some great views.176 views
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... with nothing but the desert and the water all around.176 views
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An inn? We never found out, the place was closed and there was absolutely nobody. Completely abandoned.176 views
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Only rare plants grow in the desert.176 views
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The sun was hiding again as it had been almost every day around sunset.176 views
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They eat out of your hand or try to grab hold of the goodie to eat it somewhere hidden where there's no danger another squirrel will steal the food.175 views
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I noticed an unusual structure at the side of the church.175 views
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The wind never stops blowing.175 views
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The coastal road.175 views
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Here the sand is white and not yellow as around Corralejo.175 views
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... and saw an imposing structure on top of a hill. "What the hell is this?" we thought.174 views
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It turned out this was the lighthouse we were headed to! On top of a 200-meter cliff, it offered fantastic views.174 views
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The mists of the horizon prevented the sunrise from being spectacular. The light was weak and pretty colorless.174 views
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Patterns in the sand were amazing.174 views
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One of the largest dunes probably pale in comparison with, let's say, Namib dunes, but I enjoyed the photoshoot anyway.174 views
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The light was slowly becoming stronger as the sun rose.174 views
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All the time the wind kept sweeping the sand over the dunes (and into us!).174 views
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We found this littly cactus with long thorns.174 views
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Windswept sandy beaches strewn with rocks.174 views
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It's difficult to stop anywhere along the roads as the shoulders are very high, so the only option is to pull over on a side road.174 views
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Waves crashing against the rocks.173 views
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The position of the lighthouse is really impressive.173 views
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After ten minutes at the beach we headed to the dunes. I wonder which animal made these tracks. :)173 views
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We sped back under dark clouds and past some red mountains.173 views
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The village square.172 views
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We heard that there is a lighthouse not far from Las Playitas. We drove along this valley ...172 views
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There was a lookout point ...172 views
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Is that a snake trail?172 views
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Most roads were lined with this red plant with small leaves.171 views
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The lagoons around it offer calm waters in contrast with the raging waves crashing against the outer shore.171 views
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The landscape is barren and almost devoid of settlements, just a house here and there.170 views
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Would you like to live there?170 views
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The return trip back to the north where we were staying was spectacular again. The road between Pájara and Betancuria, lined with picturesque white stones, twists across a pass.170 views
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The road on the other side of the valley.170 views
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You can only stop at a few designated places.170 views
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On the road close to La Oliva we basked in the late afternoon light.170 views
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More patterns.170 views
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Several dirt roads deep down in the valley.169 views
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Las Playitas from the inland side: it looks like a white village in the middle of the desert.168 views
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The landscape amazed me.168 views
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The harsh landscapes with sparse vegetation is very scenic.165 views
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Expansive views back towards Betancuria ...165 views
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Later on we stopped in the town of Pájara. Peter wsa dwarfed by a giant cactus.164 views
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Flower.164 views
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