SKL's Walking Blog

Lanzarote – 2

Haría to Teguise – 20th February 2024

I’m not doing well on the bus front outbound. But no matter, I do ride them back.
A very steep prolonged climb to start today – I suppose this will happen everyday, as all the villages are in the valleys and not at the top of the mountains. It don’t half get me a huffing and a puffing with my wee heart all squirrely in my chest for a bit.
I thought I’d add in a little extra to get some views to the west. Oh well! Someday I’ll learn. Weather was cool to start at 17 and with the wind up so high it even got a bit chilly.

César Manrique himself, a famous artist of this borough. Whittling, I think.
His and her wells? Though I suspect it was more the male’s well and the female’s well. The lovely street cleaning woman stepped aside from her brushing to let me do my well-in-well shot.
I was nonplussed by these huge concrete structures buried into the hillside for a bit.
They were to support a very windy road that snakes up the hill – one bend can be seen on the right. Down below is Haría and behind it in the distance, Máguez.
The view to the east down to the sea. The bushes are starting to flower up here.
I’ve diverted a bit to the west to see the little and large ice cream domes and…
This escarpment and the whole of the south end of the island below.
So now I get to walk along its edge.
Fossilized giant skull and a view of the central plain.
They tried to blind this one with blocks of stone but she is slowly breaking free.
At the end and I can safely look back.
Teguise coming into view bottom left.
The mountains of the south which will need conquering over the next 3 days.
Loads of the black lava fields in the valley ahead.
Astonishing really. The top inch or two is dead and acts very like a mulch preventing weed. The farmer injects the seed below that layer into the soil and voliá – ze produce.
Another medieval madman. How did the serfs get up there to be cuffed in the face?
This guy has created semi-circular opera banquettes for his favourite vines. Then sits, front row, by his orchestra pit of an evening when things are in full flow.
Yes! A big football. Teguise, and I’m just in time for the bus.

A lovely day today. Cool to start and then the sun came out. I’m having trouble with my new ankle support which in the main is great but the rough seams are ripping my skin off, which after a few hours becomes agony. I might regret it but I shall go commando tomorrow.