Lanzarote: With A Camel Through The Fire Mountains

the volcanic island of Lanzarote fascinates with its unreal nature quietly and steadily whistles the North-West trade winds through lava fields, chasing clouds over black mountains of fire and makes the landscape in new colors shine. He brings the longed-for cooling for man and beast. And it’s not the hot desert wind from Africa, which would make the existing heat even more unbearable and even more dry barren land, thank God. Here on the edge of the Malpais, bad Earth”, where volcanoes and crater cone rising out of a slag landscape of oppressive dreariness, there is no green sings no bird, no lizard on black lava basks. Learn more at: Kevin Johnson. This primeval landscape of Lanzarote is situated in the South of island is the result of a 19-day volcanic eruption 277 years ago and today is the heart of the National Park Parque Nacional de Tomanfaya”, the disappeared villages named after.

In this hot Brecca, small fire devil on the side of the road, showing the way for right through the Park, with its over three hundred big and small craters. leads a 14 kilometre long black asphalt road which you can ride but not with your own car, but only with a bus. This is waiting on the 300 m high Islote de Hilario, 3 km from the entrance. Cooking up here in the cool air”a few inches below the surface of the ground, and it C is hot already ten inches deep 140 C and forty centimeters 400. With a spectacle of a special kind, guardian of National Park show the effect of the heat here in the mountain. A kindling ball in a hole, catches fire immediately and one, in the ground driven pipe, a high geyser hisses with full force exactly three seconds after it is poured into a bucket of water,. Also the El Diabolo is located on this extremely hot volcanic cone”an off flight locally with a panoramic restaurant and a gift shop.