Holiday La Palma

We were asked the other day if we had started to take the beauty of the island for granted. Luckily, I cannot imagine this ever happening particularly with sights like this just a 50 minute drive from home.
It's a pretty impressive drive too, rising up from 500 metres above sea level where we live to 2426 metres, the top of the island, driving through sun-dappled pine forests to burst through into a moon-like landscape dotted with state of the art observatories. The contrast is nothing short of crazy.



The photo here shows the Caldera, the largest erosion crater in the world. It measures a fairly unmissable 10km in diameter and is 2000 metres deep.

In the far distance, you can see the southern spine of the island which forms the famous volcano route, the last section of the GR 131. We walked this route in February last year having camped overnight at El Pilar, the start of the final part of the walk. It's pretty amazing looking at it from an entirely different perspective and thinking, 'We were there!'