First off, Lanzarote was fabulously beautiful. It was like being on a movie set and, while we saw many tourists, when we were walking there was no one there! I don’t know if it was because of what we did, or where we were, but it was almost as if we had the whole thing to ourselves.
In a nut shell, the days I wasn’t sick, were absolutely stunning. We spent the first day exploring the mountain via car and seeing the wide range of landscape. It was gorgeous to take a leisurely car tour. We even saw a Caesar Manriquez Museum. We ended up seeing two, one in Haria and Tahice and I prefered the one in Tahice better (everyone in our group did). The next day we did a long four hour hike which took us up two volcanoes and around a total of four. We also met a very nice Scottish man. The first volcano was hard, but the next was extreme and I fell twice that day, once a slip down and the other a fall near the coast. I saw many dead animal bones, but the landscape was fabulous. After that we went to a Volcano park which was stunning and a comfortable bus tour. They do the bus tour to cut down on cars going around and it was prehistoric. We could see the insides of volcanos and even feel the dormant heat of one. We ate a lunch which was grilled on the heat of a volcano. Then the next three days are a blur where I was very sniffly, but also had a fever one day which I do not remember at all. I vaguely remember Pizza and burgers, so there must have been a Wednesday in there somewhere (Wed was Pizza day at a local restaurant). During this time, the group went off and did another long and strenuous hike. I was glad to be at home, but not glad to feel my head. My favorite day was our exploration of La Graciousa which felt like the island scene of Shakespeare in Love and I felt glorious. It was so beautiful and one of my favorite walks was down the coast line. Then the other partner was sick, so the next two days were at home again, but I had the best fish dinner ever as well! After that we had a leisurely day where we took a walk on the top of the cliffs near Haria and saw the other Manriquez museum. Our final day we saw Jameos Del Agua which is a cute cave with really white crabs. We also walked around the coast a little before leaving.
I spent a lot of my trip at home, but it was good and stunning. As I said, the days not at home, were all beautiful and the pictures make me so happy! I’ll try to upload some a little later.