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amazonvMON 07OCT24
Arrecife (Lanzarote), Canary Islands
08:00 AM 04:00 PM
Breakfast, roomservice
(museli, toast, tea, bacon)
TOUR
Panoramic Lanzarote - Small Group 07OCT2024 Arrecife (Lanzarote), Canary Islands
09:15 AM
3.50 Hrs
The restaurant utilizes heat from inside the mountains to cook
looks desolate and moonlike
the only thing they have is tourism
all houses are painted white (tradition, because soil is dark and it is so dark the white houses made them findable when sun set)
mom found it depressing
they only entered modern age when 1966 they got a desalination plant, before that they had no water and no electricity.
now back at room to rest before lecture then tea
--
Did lecture, not an engaging lecturer
did high tea, again good and better than first day
nap
Canapes was chicken wings
we did the french restaurant chartruse again for dinner
ate so much, stuffed
Arrecife (Lanzarote), Canary Islands
08:00 AM 04:00 PM
Breakfast, roomservice
(museli, toast, tea, bacon)
TOUR
Panoramic Lanzarote - Small Group 07OCT2024 Arrecife (Lanzarote), Canary Islands
09:15 AM
3.50 Hrs
Venture into the barren landscape of a national park on a captivating volcano tour and sample Lanzarote’s fine wines, produced using an unorthodox method due to the island’s harsh environment. Explore Lanzarote’s otherworldly terrain within the Timanfaya National Park and learn that the area’s Fire Mountains didn’t exist until volcanic upheaval in the 1730s. You’ll marvel at the beautifully desolate and bizarre landscape of the park, where the temperature beneath the surface can approach 1,000ºF, and listen to a gripping modern recording of diary entries from an 18th-century priest who described the eruptions. Pass the salt flats of Janubio en route to La Geria Winery, a renowned vineyard that produces distinct wines primarily from the malvasia grape. Discover that to survive in the dry soil, the vines are planted in funnel-shaped craters and the ground covered with porous volcanic granules to retain moisture. Sample a few of the resulting dry to semi-sweet to sweet wines and appreciate this unique method of cultivation and the unexpected bounty of this seemingly sterile land.
·View the desolate yet strangely beautiful landscapes of volcanic Timanfaya National Park.
·View the desolate yet strangely beautiful landscapes of volcanic Timanfaya National Park.
·Hear a modern recording of a priest’s diary describing the volcanic eruptions he witnessed in the 1730s.
·Sample superb malvasia wines produced in the island’s dry, volcanic soil using a distinctive technique.
The restaurant utilizes heat from inside the mountains to cook
looks desolate and moonlike
the only thing they have is tourism
all houses are painted white (tradition, because soil is dark and it is so dark the white houses made them findable when sun set)
mom found it depressing
they only entered modern age when 1966 they got a desalination plant, before that they had no water and no electricity.
now back at room to rest before lecture then tea
--
Did lecture, not an engaging lecturer
did high tea, again good and better than first day
nap
Canapes was chicken wings
we did the french restaurant chartruse again for dinner
ate so much, stuffed
