Hiking in Gran Canaria The Caldera de Bandama Hike A caldera is the black hole of geology: the remnant of a supernova-sized explosion when all the remaining energy of a volcano is released in one almighty blow. After the explosion, the volcano collapses into its – now empty – magma chamber, leaving a crater-like surface…
Gran Canaria Walking Festival Colonial Hotel Las Longueras Gran Canaria Halftime for us in the Gran Canaria Walking Festival, and to mark the occasion, we are not changing ends but our dressing rooms – moving from our mountain base in Hotel Las Calas to the Hotel Las Longueras Gran Canaria in the lowlands. With this…
Gran Canaria Walking Festival The Little Continent Gran Canaria Gran Canaria, they say, is a little continent in its own right – and today, having crossed the deserts of Nevada for our first hike of the Walking Festival, we will visit Utah and Arizona as well as the Californian pine forests and pass through the…
Gran Canaria Walking Festival The Three Volcanoes of La Isleta Our first day at the Gran Canaria Walking Festival, and things are starting well. I have not brought my ID. Whereas that is not normally a major sticking point with hikes, it is for this one because our 30-strong hiking party is brought to what our…
Gran Canaria Walking Festival Gran Canaria – Hotel Las Calas We just arrived in Gran Canaria, late last night, all ready for the Walking Festival that will start today. We have not seen a lot of the Gran Canaria landscape, of course, in fact little more than the vegetation which lines the street on the…
Hiking in Mallorca S’Albufera – A Mallorcan Marshland So far, we have been telling you mainly about hikes in those areas of Mallorca that are difficult to access: hikes for which you need at least a car, or better still, a guided tour. Today, we will talk about hikes that that you can do easily on…
Our No Frills Island Tour in Mallorca Let’s be frank: guided bus tours are not generally the ideal solution if you want to explore unfamiliar surroundings – walking is always best, bearing in mind that “you have only really been to a place when you have experienced it on your own two feet” (it was…
Hiking in Mallorca Hiking in Mallorca in Ermita de Betlem Mallorca is a small island and nearly as densely populated as Holland, without even counting the 9 million visitors who come here each year. So it’s all the more striking if you consider that you can walk for hours in the Park Natural de Llevant…
Hiking in Spain Mallorca Beyond the Beaches If you want to explore the “real Mallorca”, the Mallorca beyond the beaches teeming with tourists in holiday resorts, your best bet for a base may be a hotel right on the seaside. This may sound contradictory and counter-intuitive, so let me explain. Firstly, you must take into account…
Hiking in India Everyone Wants to Go to India One of the most frequently asked questions in our in-tray is about hiking trails in India. I am not surprised. After all, everybody wants to go to India, right? I myself have wanted to go for many years, ((and I know that I can get flights to India…