 Most viewed - May 2009
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... perfect for long walks ...2239 views
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A long stretch of sand.1856 views
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I liked the peak in the distance - what a shape. ;)1852 views
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The (only) loval restaurant was closed, but I loved its back entrance.1731 views
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We had a high-jump competition of sorts - did I jump high enough? :)1332 views
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Down the cliff the rocks were overgrown with green algae.1300 views
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It was scorching hot and the promenade was deserted.1253 views
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Swimming in the pools is not allowed after 7 p.m. Can you believe it?1153 views
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Road.1130 views
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Of course I managed to prick my finger on it. :(1092 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.1050 views
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We then drove on a dirt road along the coast. Peter was happy. :)1033 views
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Looooong beach ...1005 views
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Lanzarote landscape.983 views
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The whole island is full of this little red plant. I have no idea what it's called, but it makes for a colorful foreground.976 views
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The beach was deserted.960 views
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Colored hills.948 views
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We only got the car around 11 a.m. so our exploration started in the harshest part of the day. We drove south, past Puerto del Rosario, and made our first stop at Costa de Antigua. The shore with cliffs is impressive.907 views
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Isla de los Lobos is just a short boat ride away.890 views
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City beaches are not really our thing, so we headed to the wilder variety. The road there leads through some spectacularly arid landscape.882 views
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Back at the dunes I still found new things to photograph.881 views
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We skipped breakfast and started at about 7 a.m., drove across the whole island and arrived at the town of Morro Jable at about 9 a.m. The place is quite touristy, but our main interest was the beach.876 views
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Low tide.875 views
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Did I say I was through with patterns? ;)871 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.869 views
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More white sandy beaches.869 views
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One part of the beach is sandy.858 views
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A black rock.858 views
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In the afternoon we continued past Morro Jable to the south. From this lokout the city beaches can be seen.853 views
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From the pass we descended down to the main road.851 views
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A Cofete house.849 views
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At the end of the valley there is a fantastic lookout point from a pass towards the west.849 views
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There's another lighthouse at a second tip of the peninsula, an even more desolate and windy one with views of the Cofete beach in the distance.846 views
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The road through the Parque Natural de Corralejo goes straight through the desert. People can park their cars on either side of the road and then walk across the dunes to the beach.846 views
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Patterns of the ground.843 views
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The dune.842 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.841 views
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There is so much space the beach is never crowded. Well, maybe only when the World Windsurfing Championship is held here. ;)840 views
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Waves.839 views
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Spinach ravioli - very good! :)839 views
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A typical bus stop along the road. Main roads are, btw, very good - paved and in a good shape.838 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.833 views
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The pretty white church of Nuestra Señora de Candelaria with a black bell tower in La Oliva.832 views
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Lanzarote landscape.832 views
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Algeria from above. The visibility wasn't so great and photos turned out mostly grey, so Photoshop came in handy to create "art", hehe. ;)831 views
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A red valley.829 views
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On the last day I realized I hadn't really taken any pictures of Corralejo, the town where we were staying. Well, it's nothing special really. Here's just one photo of one of the main streets.829 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.828 views
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The terraces appeared to have been deserted.827 views
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I wanted to see Los Molinos again to shoot it in a more favorable light.827 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)826 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.826 views
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A roundabout.825 views
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The outskirts of La Oliva.824 views
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A house with a view.824 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.822 views
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We flew from Salzburg to Fuerteventura with a quick stop on the adjacent island, Lanzarote. The five-hour flight was quite uneventful so I occupied myself with taking pictures.820 views
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A very imaginative letter box.820 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.819 views
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Take-off on Lanzarote.819 views
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An inland lake in Morocco.817 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)817 views
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When we had had enough of the sand, we headed south. The landscape around La Oliva is spectacular.817 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.815 views
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A port town close to Oran, Algeria.814 views
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Enjoying the wind.813 views
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The sun behind the clouds shone on the sea.813 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.812 views
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The town of El Cotillo has a steep, almost inaccessible shore.811 views
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One sun beam illuminated a narrow strip of land.811 views
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No dogs. Ironically, we saw three dogs - and no humans. :)810 views
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Peter had fun photographing the water fountain.809 views
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We were already in the clouds.806 views
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One of the many beaches along the coast.803 views
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More Algerian landscapes.802 views
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And they are really scenic.802 views
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Belts of sand formed by the tide.802 views
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We parked the car and walked to the beach. Beach chairs and umbreally can be rented.801 views
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The view from the first floor. One of the great things here is that hotels are not built high. Instead, they are spread out over large areas.799 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.799 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.799 views
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The valley of Vallebrón is full of terraces.799 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.798 views
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Sand.798 views
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In the plane.798 views
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Salt evaporation ponds with a footbridge.796 views
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Again, the place is ideal to sit down and listen to the sea.796 views
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A dune and a photographer.795 views
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Moonscape with the sea in the background.795 views
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Ominous clouds approached from the inland to cover the picturesque village.795 views
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My footsteps.794 views
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The food was surprisingly good! Way to go, Niki Air!793 views
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Our Opel Corsa.793 views
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Just outside La Oliva after sunset.793 views
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Yellow dunes.792 views
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On the way to Los Molinos.792 views
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Los Molinos in the late afternoon light.792 views
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Waves overflowing a rocky barrier in front of the cliffs.792 views
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... and towards the north.791 views
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A windsurfer.790 views
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I just stood in the water, letting the waves lap at me and taking photos.789 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.788 views
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Kiddie pool.787 views
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The area around the village of La Oliva is spectacular in its reddish colors.787 views
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Last view of Lanzarote.787 views
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A scrawny little bush in the sand.786 views
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Road.786 views
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Puerto del Rosario from above.786 views
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The beach is enormous. First you have to cross a wide belt of marshes to get to the sand and the lighthouse.785 views
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One.784 views
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It seemed odd to us that all towns and villages were incredibly deserted. There was nobody in sight. Did we land in the land of ghost towns?783 views
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The island is supposed to be famous for goats, but we only saw a handful the whole week.783 views
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To help you cross a wide belt of sand to get to the sea, there's a wooden path, but it's wobbly. Very wobbly. :)782 views
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The village of Tindaya.782 views
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On the dune.782 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.781 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.781 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.781 views
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From the hill the views were breathtaking.781 views
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Strange-looking flowers.781 views
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It was warm enough so we decided to go for a swim.780 views
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There's obviously enough moisture for some plants to grow.779 views
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In the car along the desert road.779 views
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A road divides the sea and the dunes.778 views
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The bay.778 views
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A cat sat underneath our table the whole time we ate. This love-struck look was intended for Peter. :)778 views
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Los Molinos is a small villages of maybe ten houses set on a beach and surrounded by magnificent cliffs.777 views
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One of the stops has regular visitors - little ground squirrel, which are so used to people they come running when they hear a car stopping.777 views
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The mists of the horizon prevented the sunrise from being spectacular. The light was weak and pretty colorless.777 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.777 views
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O hai! :)777 views
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The countryside on the way to La Pared was spectacular again. We stopped the car along the road and climbed a nearby hill to take photos in all four directions.777 views
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Corralejo and its desert.777 views
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Typical architecture.776 views
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The coast through the dirty window. :(776 views
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Every hotel has a swimming pool! ;)775 views
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We took a different turn and climbed to the pass that leads to the other side of the mountains, to the isolated beaches of Cofete.775 views
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People slide down the dunes or even make cartwheels.775 views
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A windmill.775 views
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Only sporadic sun rays illuminated the landscape, or in this case, the village of Tindaya.775 views
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Puffy clouds above Northern Africa.774 views
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A white road and a red road.774 views
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Into the sun.774 views
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My little waterproof Olympus came in handy.774 views
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A Moroccan town.773 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.773 views
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Seagulls.773 views
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Remember these hills?773 views
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A sand dune extending from the hill to the beach.773 views
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Waiting for the take-off at the Fuerteventura airport.773 views
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Only rare plants grow in the desert.772 views
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The light was slowly becoming stronger as the sun rose.772 views
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Climbing the dune.772 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.772 views
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Some waves spray over ten meters high when they crash into the rocks.771 views
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A volcanic cone.770 views
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Coast close to Oran, Algeria.769 views
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The landscape between Corralejo and El Cotillo is just as deserted and barren as most of the island. Surprisingly, there were many stone fences.769 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.769 views
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Play of light and shadow.769 views
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Colorful hills.769 views
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Our car down below.768 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.767 views
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A small green forest. I mean really small.766 views
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Climbing the dune.766 views
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Puertito de los Molinos.766 views
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The water is not very warm and the wind blows all the time, so we opted to just sit on the beach for a while and leave swimming for some other time.765 views
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The Betancuria pass was cloudy and dreary.765 views
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The bay.765 views
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Green patches of Lanzarote.764 views
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It reminded me of some Greek islands.763 views
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The beach is ideal for long walks.763 views
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The southern tip of the island is very desolate. The road isn't paved and only few people make it this far. This is the view from the lighthouse at the very end of the peninsula back towards the island.763 views
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The beach.763 views
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From above it's easy to see how arid Lanzarote is.762 views
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Yep, the water is cold.762 views
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Beaches of Cofete.762 views
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The rocky beach at Los Molinos.762 views
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Dark and rainy here, but far in the distance the sun was setting.762 views
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Limestone.761 views
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Green window.761 views
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Our lunch, a sea food platter. It was delicious.761 views
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The beach.760 views
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The air traffic is quite busy.760 views
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From the road along the peninsula.759 views
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Interesting wisps of clouds.759 views
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The landscape is barren and almost devoid of settlements, just a house here and there.758 views
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There was a lookout point ...758 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.758 views
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... and saw an imposing structure on top of a hill. "What the hell is this?" we thought.757 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.757 views
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After scouting this lookout the previous day, we returned the following morning, but the weather didn't cooperate much.757 views
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Our next stop was the village of Las Playitas.756 views
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Patterns in the sand were amazing.756 views
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The dune.756 views
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Lots of greenery around the resort is actually deceiving as the island itself is not nearly as green.755 views
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Faro del Tostón.754 views
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Green waves.753 views
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The landscape amazed me.753 views
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To the south there is a series of sandy beaches and more cliffs in the distance.753 views
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