Awesome Trip to the West of Gran Canaria
We started our trip to the westernmost point of Gran Canaria as usual at 5 am by cooking some food for a day and getting ready. We started from Maspalomas, went along Mogan. By the way, we often met cars on our way, and in Mogan people were engaged doing their business. It’s a common thing to get up at 5 am on the Canary Islands, like in most other countries at 7 am. However, they have some rest in the afternoon.
Waking up so early – it’s the greatest thing people can do for themselves. Wake up when it’s still dark, feel the darkness of the night and the very transition from the dark to light sky. Start a new day filled with the energy of caressing sun. Get one of the greatest several hours of the day as a gift. That’s what you lack most, when you live an everyday life in a city with routine, gray colors, concrete walls. No, we like living in a modern developed city center with all the opportunities and facilities that follow, but a little bit. Feeling of a morning magic, grandeur of nature and the phenomena giving you a thrill – are still unusual feelings for us, and we want to feel it fully, enjoy it. We have been living in concrete walls for quite a long time, and traveling opens a way from the cage.
We are driving still in the dark and are looking for a location for a perfect picture. Then we enjoy a change of colors surrounding us from everywhere.
In some short period of time you don’t even remember that it was dark. See all alive with your own eyes, have a firsthand experience – it seems worth living this way.
Our car renting company gives all customers a map of the island as a present. So we check all the places we visited and the roads. 6 islands – 6 maps.
Many cars drove past us while we were shooting a video and taking pictures for about an hour. And there are serpentines everywhere, long serpentines every day for the locals.
A valley is clearly visible at the peak of a serpentine road, where you have to go down to reach the westernmost point of the island.
You can see banana plantations closer. That’s how they live here, because there are almost no tourists here, there’s no resort in this part of the island, mountains are everywhere, and not even a straight highway, just serpentines.
There’s such an echo that if you stop at the beginning of the city, you can hear the basic value of all people – kids buzz from a school. And sometimes, the noise of cars and motorcycles. City La aldea de San Nicolas.
The main western lighthouse and the port Punta de San Nicolas is right outside the city. This is a cozy little bay surrounded by mountains.
Several locals are chatting idly; others are having a little swim in the afternoon. And just a few cars with the guests, including us.
Everybody has the common route – firstly, museum, which is located near the parking lot. Next – up on the wall and a walk to the lighthouse, then down and walk back to the parking lot 🙂
Waves are huge as always, splashing water on the audience.
It’s quiet and calm in this bay, solitary fishermen are fishing and that’s all. There were no ships in the port, perhaps, they rarely come here.
We stopped for a lunch in a beautiful and interesting place. We, actually, had nothing to choose from, but we were lucky.
Traditional Canarian food: soup may be from onion or as this green one with beans. Grilled fish filet and most importantly – Canarian potatoes with mojo sauce. Actually, it’s very simple and we got it too salty, everything. Tasty papaya or mango juice. For such a lunch – 20 euros.
But here’s another zing. A garden of cacti and another exotic fruit garden. After lunch, we went for a walk. Before that, we drove past a large cacti park, but we thought it wasn’t interesting. However, when we were sitting on the terrace near all these cacti we decided to have a closer look at them.
The sizes of some are impressive.
It was interesting to walk between these prickly plants, but then we ran into another place.
Such a friendly man happily showed us his precious, exotic for us things. You can find whatever you can think about there. A beautiful GARDEN with bananas, oranges, papaya, olive tree, and even coffee!
Everything is so interesting!
A large COFFEE bush. This garden – is a dream. That Canarian probably would have the same emotions if he saw our usual garden with pears, apples, cherries, black cherries, strawberries, raspberries, currants. We can also make up a delicious list. But it’s exotic here! And coffee!
And he gave us two large oranges as well, just like that! They were the juiciest and the tastiest we have ever tasted!
Papaya grows this way. This small tree has three small fruits, and later we saw the tall full-grown trees with three to four times more fruits.
We are totally satisfied with our trip to western point of Gran Canaria 🙂
With love, RH.
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