 Most viewed - May 2009
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... perfect for long walks ...2244 views
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A long stretch of sand.1860 views
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I liked the peak in the distance - what a shape. ;)1855 views
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The (only) loval restaurant was closed, but I loved its back entrance.1733 views
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We had a high-jump competition of sorts - did I jump high enough? :)1334 views
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Down the cliff the rocks were overgrown with green algae.1305 views
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It was scorching hot and the promenade was deserted.1257 views
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Swimming in the pools is not allowed after 7 p.m. Can you believe it?1158 views
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Road.1135 views
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Of course I managed to prick my finger on it. :(1099 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.1056 views
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We then drove on a dirt road along the coast. Peter was happy. :)1036 views
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Looooong beach ...1011 views
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Lanzarote landscape.985 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.981 views
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The beach was deserted.964 views
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Colored hills.949 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.909 views
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Isla de los Lobos is just a short boat ride away.891 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.887 views
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Back at the dunes I still found new things to photograph.883 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.881 views
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Did I say I was through with patterns? ;)877 views
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Low tide.877 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.874 views
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More white sandy beaches.870 views
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A black rock.860 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.858 views
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One part of the beach is sandy.858 views
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A Cofete house.853 views
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From the pass we descended down to the main road.853 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.851 views
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At the end of the valley there is a fantastic lookout point from a pass towards the west.851 views
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Patterns of the ground.848 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.848 views
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The dune.846 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.845 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. ;)845 views
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A typical bus stop along the road. Main roads are, btw, very good - paved and in a good shape.842 views
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Waves.841 views
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Spinach ravioli - very good! :)841 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.837 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. ;)835 views
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The pretty white church of Nuestra Señora de Candelaria with a black bell tower in La Oliva.834 views
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Lanzarote landscape.833 views
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A red valley.832 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.831 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.831 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.831 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)830 views
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The terraces appeared to have been deserted.829 views
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I wanted to see Los Molinos again to shoot it in a more favorable light.828 views
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A roundabout.827 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.826 views
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The outskirts of La Oliva.826 views
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A very imaginative letter box.825 views
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A house with a view.825 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.824 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.823 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)823 views
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An inland lake in Morocco.822 views
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Take-off on Lanzarote.821 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.819 views
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A port town close to Oran, Algeria.818 views
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When we had had enough of the sand, we headed south. The landscape around La Oliva is spectacular.818 views
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Enjoying the wind.817 views
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The town of El Cotillo has a steep, almost inaccessible shore.816 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.816 views
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The sun behind the clouds shone on the sea.815 views
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One sun beam illuminated a narrow strip of land.814 views
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No dogs. Ironically, we saw three dogs - and no humans. :)812 views
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Peter had fun photographing the water fountain.811 views
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We were already in the clouds.808 views
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And they are really scenic.807 views
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More Algerian landscapes.806 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.804 views
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One of the many beaches along the coast.804 views
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Belts of sand formed by the tide.804 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.803 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.803 views
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We parked the car and walked to the beach. Beach chairs and umbreally can be rented.803 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.802 views
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The valley of Vallebrón is full of terraces.801 views
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Sand.800 views
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In the plane.800 views
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Salt evaporation ponds with a footbridge.798 views
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Our Opel Corsa.798 views
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Again, the place is ideal to sit down and listen to the sea.798 views
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The food was surprisingly good! Way to go, Niki Air!797 views
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A dune and a photographer.797 views
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Moonscape with the sea in the background.797 views
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Ominous clouds approached from the inland to cover the picturesque village.797 views
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My footsteps.797 views
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... and towards the north.796 views
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Yellow dunes.796 views
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Waves overflowing a rocky barrier in front of the cliffs.796 views
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Just outside La Oliva after sunset.795 views
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On the way to Los Molinos.794 views
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Los Molinos in the late afternoon light.794 views
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I just stood in the water, letting the waves lap at me and taking photos.793 views
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The area around the village of La Oliva is spectacular in its reddish colors.792 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.792 views
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A windsurfer.792 views
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Kiddie pool.791 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.790 views
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Road.790 views
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One.789 views
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Last view of Lanzarote.789 views
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Puerto del Rosario from above.788 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?787 views
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A scrawny little bush in the sand.787 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.786 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.786 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. :)785 views
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The island is supposed to be famous for goats, but we only saw a handful the whole week.785 views
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The village of Tindaya.784 views
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On the dune.784 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.783 views
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From the hill the views were breathtaking.783 views
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It was warm enough so we decided to go for a swim.783 views
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Strange-looking flowers.783 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.782 views
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There's obviously enough moisture for some plants to grow.782 views
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Los Molinos is a small villages of maybe ten houses set on a beach and surrounded by magnificent cliffs.781 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.781 views
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A cat sat underneath our table the whole time we ate. This love-struck look was intended for Peter. :)781 views
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In the car along the desert road.781 views
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A road divides the sea and the dunes.780 views
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The mists of the horizon prevented the sunrise from being spectacular. The light was weak and pretty colorless.780 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.780 views
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O hai! :)780 views
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The bay.779 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.779 views
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A Moroccan town.778 views
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Every hotel has a swimming pool! ;)778 views
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Typical architecture.778 views
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Only sporadic sun rays illuminated the landscape, or in this case, the village of Tindaya.778 views
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The coast through the dirty window. :(778 views
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Corralejo and its desert.778 views
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Only rare plants grow in the desert.777 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.777 views
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Climbing the dune.777 views
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Seagulls.777 views
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A windmill.777 views
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Remember these hills?777 views
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Puffy clouds above Northern Africa.776 views
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The light was slowly becoming stronger as the sun rose.776 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.776 views
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People slide down the dunes or even make cartwheels.776 views
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A white road and a red road.776 views
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Into the sun.776 views
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My little waterproof Olympus came in handy.776 views
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A sand dune extending from the hill to the beach.775 views
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Waiting for the take-off at the Fuerteventura airport.775 views
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Coast close to Oran, Algeria.774 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.774 views
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Some waves spray over ten meters high when they crash into the rocks.773 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.772 views
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A volcanic cone.772 views
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Colorful hills.772 views
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Play of light and shadow.771 views
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A small green forest. I mean really small.770 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.770 views
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Our car down below.769 views
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It reminded me of some Greek islands.768 views
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Climbing the dune.768 views
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The Betancuria pass was cloudy and dreary.768 views
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The beach is ideal for long walks.767 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.767 views
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Dark and rainy here, but far in the distance the sun was setting.767 views
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From above it's easy to see how arid Lanzarote is.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.766 views
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Puertito de los Molinos.766 views
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The bay.766 views
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Green patches of Lanzarote.766 views
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Beaches of Cofete.765 views
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The beach.765 views
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Yep, the water is cold.764 views
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From the road along the peninsula.764 views
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Limestone.764 views
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Green window.764 views
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The rocky beach at Los Molinos.763 views
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Our lunch, a sea food platter. It was delicious.763 views
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The beach.763 views
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The landscape is barren and almost devoid of settlements, just a house here and there.762 views
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Interesting wisps of clouds.762 views
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The air traffic is quite busy.762 views
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Our next stop was the village of Las Playitas.761 views
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... and saw an imposing structure on top of a hill. "What the hell is this?" we thought.761 views
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There was a lookout point ...761 views
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Patterns in the sand were amazing.761 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.761 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.761 views
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After scouting this lookout the previous day, we returned the following morning, but the weather didn't cooperate much.760 views
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Lots of greenery around the resort is actually deceiving as the island itself is not nearly as green.758 views
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The landscape amazed me.758 views
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Faro del Tostón.758 views
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To the south there is a series of sandy beaches and more cliffs in the distance.758 views
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The city beach.758 views
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The dune.758 views
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