Phespirit goes to Lanzarote
tour     March 2001

CRACKED MOUNTAIN

Just one of the several volcanic peaks in Tamanfaya National Park.

The lava fields vary in colour and character from the predominantly black craggy rock seen here to the smooth sandy undulations of the Valley of Tranquility.

BODEGA LA GERIA

Each horseshoe-shaped stone wall shields an individual vine in the La Geria valley.

This method of viniculture has produced an extraordinary landscape, as well as some quite passable wines.

Canarian wines are mentioned twenty-six times in Shakespeare, so they say.

JAMEOS DEL AGUA

Observe here: the dim subterranean lake, extensively populated with tiny blind white crabs, Munidopsis Polimorpha.

Tourists are discouraged from their stupid habit of throwing coins into the lake.

Pesatas poison the residents.