The dune.212 views
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Peter was just as trigger-happy as me. :)211 views
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There is also a museum next to the lighthouse, but it was closed when we were there.211 views
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Moonscape.211 views
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Road.211 views
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Green doorways.211 views
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The view towards the west and the sea.211 views
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More Algerian landscapes.210 views
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The town of El Cotillo has a steep, almost inaccessible shore.210 views
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Play of light and shadow.210 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.209 views
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A red valley.209 views
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No, I had no intention of going there anyway. ;)208 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. :)208 views
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Terraces.208 views
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From the cliff.208 views
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Green waves.207 views
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It reminded me of some Greek islands.207 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.207 views
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A road divides the sea and the dunes.206 views
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A very imaginative letter box.206 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.206 views
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Our car down below.206 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. :)205 views
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An older house. I love the lamp.205 views
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The clouds were gracious enough to grant us one single sun ray. :)204 views
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A Moroccan town.203 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.203 views
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Rolling hills.203 views
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Shores of an inland lake in Morocco.202 views
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A river snaking its way through the desert.202 views
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A pile of salt.202 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.202 views
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Our Opel Corsa.202 views
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The village of Cofete. We didn't see one single inhabitant, just a few goats.202 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)201 views
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A golf course on Lanzarote.200 views
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A coastal town on Lanzarote.200 views
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Peter at the top of the dune.200 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.200 views
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A Cofete house.200 views
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A girl was about to place a tripod in the waves. I think her camera got wet. :)200 views
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Cofete.200 views
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Yellow dunes.199 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.199 views
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The area around the village of La Oliva is spectacular in its reddish colors.198 views
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The thunder of crashing waves is deafening.198 views
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Hard terrain mixed with the soft dunes.198 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.198 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.198 views
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An unusual species of cacti. I have no idea what it's called.198 views
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One more look from the pass and off we were to the long drive back to Corralejo.198 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.197 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)196 views
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A dune.195 views
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The beach itself was idyllic.195 views
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Deserted sandy beach.194 views
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A small green forest. I mean really small.194 views
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From the road along the peninsula.194 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.193 views
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Apart from green, blue is also a popular color for house paint.193 views
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Yes, there was one person! Miracle! :)193 views
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This fortress overlooks the steep bay.193 views
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I don't know where all the inhabitants were, but we didn't see a soul.192 views
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The church in Pájara with a lush and shady park.192 views
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Curves.192 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.192 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.192 views
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We just sat for a while and enjoyed the sound of the wind.192 views
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Our next stop was the village of Las Playitas.191 views
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... high above the sea ...191 views
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The village of Vega del Río de Palmas has a picturesque plaza with a church.191 views
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Cliffs in the distance.191 views
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Moon-like landscapes abound.190 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?190 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.190 views
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Dune.190 views
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Cactus detail.190 views
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Faro del Tostón.190 views
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A rock in the sand.190 views
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Typical colors: white and green.189 views
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There's a path to the nearby cliff which you can climb with some great views.189 views
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... and saw an imposing structure on top of a hill. "What the hell is this?" we thought.189 views
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... with nothing but the desert and the water all around.189 views
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An inn? We never found out, the place was closed and there was absolutely nobody. Completely abandoned.189 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.188 views
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An obligatory fish-eye shot. ;) Yes, the sea is almost 200 meters down below.188 views
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The coastal road.188 views
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At the end of the El Cotillo area there is Faro del Tostón, a red-and-white striped lighthouse.188 views
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To the south there is a series of sandy beaches and more cliffs in the distance.188 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.188 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.187 views
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The wind never stops blowing.187 views
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Did I say I was through with patterns? ;)187 views
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Here the sand is white and not yellow as around Corralejo.187 views
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Waves crashing against the rocks.186 views
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The position of the lighthouse is really impressive.186 views
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I noticed an unusual structure at the side of the church.186 views
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The mists of the horizon prevented the sunrise from being spectacular. The light was weak and pretty colorless.186 views
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Patterns in the sand were amazing.186 views
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Only rare plants grow in the desert.186 views
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Small village Majanicho in the north. Again, no people anywhere.186 views
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Windswept sandy beaches strewn with rocks.186 views
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The sun was hiding again as it had been almost every day around sunset.186 views
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We sped back under dark clouds and past some red mountains.186 views
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The landscape is barren and almost devoid of settlements, just a house here and there.185 views
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We found this littly cactus with long thorns.185 views
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There was a lookout point ...184 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.184 views
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We heard that there is a lighthouse not far from Las Playitas. We drove along this valley ...183 views
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The road on the other side of the valley.183 views
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You can only stop at a few designated places.183 views
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After ten minutes at the beach we headed to the dunes. I wonder which animal made these tracks. :)183 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.183 views
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Is that a snake trail?183 views
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The lagoons around it offer calm waters in contrast with the raging waves crashing against the outer shore.183 views
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Would you like to live there?182 views
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The landscape amazed me.182 views
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On the road close to La Oliva we basked in the late afternoon light.182 views
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All the time the wind kept sweeping the sand over the dunes (and into us!).182 views
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Most roads were lined with this red plant with small leaves.182 views
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The village square.181 views
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More patterns.181 views
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Las Playitas from the inland side: it looks like a white village in the middle of the desert.180 views
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Several dirt roads deep down in the valley.180 views
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The harsh landscapes with sparse vegetation is very scenic.180 views
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The light was slowly becoming stronger as the sun rose.180 views
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Later on we stopped in the town of Pájara. Peter wsa dwarfed by a giant cactus.179 views
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Flower.178 views
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Expansive views back towards Betancuria ...178 views
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