Fuerteventura – 7 – SKL's Walking Blog

La Pared to Bus Stop 35626 (Risco del Pasa) – 25th February 2025

After a necessary day off to resolve hotel issues and move to a new hotel things resume with the desert crossing. I was looking forward to this because I do love a bit of desert. This one is ancient uplifted seabed, circa 4.8Ma and it was very strange walking over the remains of billions of tiny whelks and molluscs crunching under my feet.

The first of the sandy climbs. Difficult to walk on but at least you don’t have to keep looking at where you are placing your feet.

Leaving La Pared and a hotel that doesn’t feel like an internment camp.

Up the first of many climbs.

Heading to that mountain then up the foothills and a sharp left to the finish.

The blue arrow. For who?. To where?

At least the track has been straight as a die so far.

Now look at those waste of space, nosiy things. There are forty and two are turning. Don’t need the electricity? Probably all broken with the fine sand getting into the turbines.

Hard to believe that these are millions of years old. The depsoits are metres thick so the poor things must swarmed the shallow ocean then died when the floor got pushed up.

The mountains behind now covered in a haze.

Up this next to last one. The surface now has two types of mollusc, the original white ones and new, acorn shpaed, brown ones.

A tough soft sand bit. Footsteps but I’ve seen no one heard not even a bird. The quiet is wonderful.

The last climb, hopefully. Another problem is that there is no where to stop, no where to sit, so I just keep going, essentially for four hours straight.

Out of nowhere a piece of paved road. About one hundred metres of these laid stones.

The foothills coming up and then a quick mile down the barranca to the stop.

I do love a bit of desert and this didn’t disappoint. I would have liked it a little cooler and overcast but no matter still a wonderful day.