 Most viewed - May 2009
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.297 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.297 views
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Are you taking a photo of me?297 views
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The beach.297 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. :)296 views
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A very imaginative letter box.296 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.296 views
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A red valley.296 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?295 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.295 views
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The rocky beach at Los Molinos.295 views
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Play of light and shadow.295 views
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From the cliff.295 views
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We were already in the clouds.295 views
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One.294 views
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Shores of an inland lake in Morocco.294 views
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The water is not very warm and the wind blows all the time, so we opted to just sit on the beach for a while and leave swimming for some other time.294 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.294 views
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Our Opel Corsa.294 views
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The cliffs and the waves.294 views
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Moonscape.294 views
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A pile of salt.293 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.293 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. :)293 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.293 views
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Patterns of the ground.293 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.293 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.293 views
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An inn? We never found out, the place was closed and there was absolutely nobody. Completely abandoned.292 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.292 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.292 views
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The clouds were gracious enough to grant us one single sun ray. :)292 views
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Lanzarote landscape.292 views
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Moon-like landscapes abound.291 views
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An older house. I love the lamp.291 views
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Peter was just as trigger-happy as me. :)291 views
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Yes, there was one person! Miracle! :)291 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.291 views
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Terraces.291 views
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Green patches of Lanzarote.291 views
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No, I had no intention of going there anyway. ;)290 views
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Returning to the north we stopped at the Corralejo dunes. Yellow sand and turquoise sea, it was a beautiful sight.290 views
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A road divides the sea and the dunes.290 views
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Cofete.290 views
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A whale skeleton. It's huge. Compare it with Peter, who is "only" 195 cm tall. ;)289 views
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Deserted sandy beach.289 views
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Rolling hills.289 views
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Our next stop was the village of Las Playitas.288 views
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All the time the wind kept sweeping the sand over the dunes (and into us!).288 views
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The beach is ideal for long walks.288 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)288 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.288 views
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It reminded me of some Greek islands.287 views
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There is also a museum next to the lighthouse, but it was closed when we were there.287 views
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Is that a snake trail?286 views
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A Cofete house.286 views
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Apart from green, blue is also a popular color for house paint.285 views
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A small green forest. I mean really small.285 views
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We found this littly cactus with long thorns.285 views
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To the south there is a series of sandy beaches and more cliffs in the distance.285 views
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A coastal town on Lanzarote.284 views
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I noticed an unusual structure at the side of the church.284 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.284 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)284 views
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Would you like to live there?283 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.283 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.283 views
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Curves.282 views
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Expansive views back towards Betancuria ...282 views
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Small village Majanicho in the north. Again, no people anywhere.282 views
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Faro del Tostón.282 views
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Windswept sandy beaches strewn with rocks.282 views
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From the road along the peninsula.282 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)282 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.282 views
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... and saw an imposing structure on top of a hill. "What the hell is this?" we thought.281 views
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The mists of the horizon prevented the sunrise from being spectacular. The light was weak and pretty colorless.281 views
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Hard terrain mixed with the soft dunes.281 views
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This fortress overlooks the steep bay.281 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.281 views
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The area around the village of La Oliva is spectacular in its reddish colors.280 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.280 views
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After ten minutes at the beach we headed to the dunes. I wonder which animal made these tracks. :)280 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.280 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.279 views
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Patterns in the sand were amazing.279 views
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A dune.278 views
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... high above the sea ...277 views
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The position of the lighthouse is really impressive.277 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.277 views
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A rock in the sand.277 views
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Later on we stopped in the town of Pájara. Peter wsa dwarfed by a giant cactus.276 views
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On the road close to La Oliva we basked in the late afternoon light.276 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.276 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.276 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.275 views
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The landscape is barren and almost devoid of settlements, just a house here and there.275 views
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Las Playitas from the inland side: it looks like a white village in the middle of the desert.275 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.275 views
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I don't know where all the inhabitants were, but we didn't see a soul.274 views
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Only rare plants grow in the desert.274 views
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The harsh landscapes with sparse vegetation is very scenic.272 views
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The wind never stops blowing.272 views
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Typical colors: white and green.271 views
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Waves crashing against the rocks.271 views
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The church in Pájara with a lush and shady park.270 views
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You can only stop at a few designated places.270 views
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At the end of the El Cotillo area there is Faro del Tostón, a red-and-white striped lighthouse.270 views
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The thunder of crashing waves is deafening.269 views
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Several dirt roads deep down in the valley.269 views
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The village of Vega del Río de Palmas has a picturesque plaza with a church.268 views
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The light was slowly becoming stronger as the sun rose.268 views
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We sped back under dark clouds and past some red mountains.268 views
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Dune.267 views
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The coastal road.267 views
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Cactus detail.267 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.265 views
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The road on the other side of the valley.265 views
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Here the sand is white and not yellow as around Corralejo.264 views
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The village square.263 views
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We heard that there is a lighthouse not far from Las Playitas. We drove along this valley ...263 views
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An obligatory fish-eye shot. ;) Yes, the sea is almost 200 meters down below.263 views
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The sun was hiding again as it had been almost every day around sunset.262 views
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There's a path to the nearby cliff which you can climb with some great views.261 views
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The landscape amazed me.261 views
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Cliffs in the distance.259 views
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Flower.258 views
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Most roads were lined with this red plant with small leaves.258 views
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The lagoons around it offer calm waters in contrast with the raging waves crashing against the outer shore.254 views
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More patterns.253 views
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