 Most viewed - May 2009
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... perfect for long walks ...2184 views
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A long stretch of sand.1786 views
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I liked the peak in the distance - what a shape. ;)1782 views
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The (only) loval restaurant was closed, but I loved its back entrance.1656 views
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We had a high-jump competition of sorts - did I jump high enough? :)1287 views
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Down the cliff the rocks were overgrown with green algae.1255 views
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It was scorching hot and the promenade was deserted.1211 views
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Swimming in the pools is not allowed after 7 p.m. Can you believe it?1111 views
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Road.1074 views
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Of course I managed to prick my finger on it. :(1023 views
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From the dune with a fisheye lens.973 views
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We then drove on a dirt road along the coast. Peter was happy. :)964 views
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Lanzarote landscape.934 views
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Looooong beach ...929 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.909 views
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Colored hills.905 views
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The beach was deserted.883 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.859 views
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Isla de los Lobos is just a short boat ride away.840 views
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Did I say I was through with patterns? ;)827 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.824 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.820 views
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Low tide.819 views
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From the pass we descended down to the main road.811 views
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Back at the dunes I still found new things to photograph.809 views
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More white sandy beaches.809 views
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The impressive white lighthouse towers above the beach.805 views
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One part of the beach is sandy.803 views
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Waves.800 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.798 views
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A typical bus stop along the road. Main roads are, btw, very good - paved and in a good shape.796 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. ;)794 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.792 views
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A black rock.790 views
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Many people come here to windsurf.789 views
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At the end of the valley there is a fantastic lookout point from a pass towards the west.789 views
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I was standing ankle-deep in the sea to make this picture.788 views
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Lanzarote landscape.787 views
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Patterns of the ground.783 views
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A Cofete house.783 views
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The pretty white church of Nuestra Señora de Candelaria with a black bell tower in La Oliva.781 views
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The dune.779 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. ;)778 views
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A roundabout.778 views
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A wide angle view of the beach.776 views
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I wanted to see Los Molinos again to shoot it in a more favorable light.775 views
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A house with a view.774 views
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Spinach ravioli - very good! :)770 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.768 views
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The outskirts of La Oliva.768 views
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An elevated path leads from the town's main avenue to the beach.767 views
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The village of Puerto de la Cruz with a single giant wind turbine.767 views
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An inland lake in Morocco.765 views
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The terraces appeared to have been deserted.765 views
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A red valley.765 views
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No dogs. Ironically, we saw three dogs - and no humans. :)764 views
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Take-off on Lanzarote.764 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.763 views
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The beaches of Sotavento are a windsurfer's paradise.763 views
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The traffic is sparse to say the least. ;)763 views
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One sun beam illuminated a narrow strip of land.763 views
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The sun behind the clouds shone on the sea.763 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.763 views
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I took a hundred photos of this hill. :)762 views
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Nothing but rock and sand and small resilient bushes.761 views
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The town of El Cotillo has a steep, almost inaccessible shore.759 views
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Enjoying the wind.759 views
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A very imaginative letter box.758 views
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Yellow dunes.758 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.756 views
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Peter had fun photographing the water fountain.756 views
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We were already in the clouds.756 views
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One of the many beaches along the coast.752 views
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More Algerian landscapes.751 views
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Our Opel Corsa.751 views
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Moonscape with the sea in the background.751 views
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Sand.751 views
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And they are really scenic.750 views
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Belts of sand formed by the tide.750 views
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The tide creates an interesting pattern of beach and inlets.748 views
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Again, the place is ideal to sit down and listen to the sea.747 views
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The road the descends from the lookout at the pass is winding and narrow.745 views
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The food was surprisingly good! Way to go, Niki Air!744 views
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The wind was so strong here I could harldy keep my camera still.744 views
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A dune and a photographer.744 views
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The valley of Vallebrón is full of terraces.744 views
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Los Molinos in the late afternoon light.744 views
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Kiddie pool.743 views
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A windsurfer.743 views
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A port town close to Oran, Algeria.742 views
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On the way to Los Molinos.742 views
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Ominous clouds approached from the inland to cover the picturesque village.742 views
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... and towards the north.737 views
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When we had had enough of the sand, we headed south. The landscape around La Oliva is spectacular.737 views
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We parked the car and walked to the beach. Beach chairs and umbreally can be rented.737 views
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In the plane.737 views
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One.736 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.736 views
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It was warm enough so we decided to go for a swim.736 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?735 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.735 views
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Salt evaporation ponds with a footbridge.734 views
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A road divides the sea and the dunes.734 views
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This guy was really good - he sped along the beach and made a perfect turn.734 views
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Just outside La Oliva after sunset.733 views
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Last view of Lanzarote.733 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. :)732 views
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The island is supposed to be famous for goats, but we only saw a handful the whole week.732 views
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... with the waves gently lapping at your feet.731 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.731 views
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A Moroccan town.730 views
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Every hotel has a swimming pool! ;)730 views
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The bay.730 views
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I just stood in the water, letting the waves lap at me and taking photos.730 views
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Seagulls.729 views
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A cat sat underneath our table the whole time we ate. This love-struck look was intended for Peter. :)729 views
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The area around the village of La Oliva is spectacular in its reddish colors.728 views
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Into the sun.728 views
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Coast close to Oran, Algeria.727 views
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From the hill the views were breathtaking.727 views
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There's obviously enough moisture for some plants to grow.727 views
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From above it's easy to see how arid Lanzarote is.726 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.726 views
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The village of Tindaya.726 views
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On the dune.726 views
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My little waterproof Olympus came in handy.726 views
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Los Molinos is a small villages of maybe ten houses set on a beach and surrounded by magnificent cliffs.725 views
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The mists of the horizon prevented the sunrise from being spectacular. The light was weak and pretty colorless.725 views
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A small green forest. I mean really small.725 views
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Climbing the dune.725 views
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People slide down the dunes or even make cartwheels.725 views
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A volcanic cone.724 views
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My footsteps.724 views
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In the car along the desert road.724 views
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Only rare plants grow in the desert.723 views
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The light was slowly becoming stronger as the sun rose.723 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.723 views
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A white road and a red road.723 views
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Corralejo and its desert.723 views
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Remember these hills?722 views
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Puffy clouds above Northern Africa.721 views
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The wind was quite strong but it didn't make big waves.721 views
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Our car down below.721 views
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Strange-looking flowers.721 views
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Some waves spray over ten meters high when they crash into the rocks.720 views
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A sand dune extending from the hill to the beach.720 views
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Puerto del Rosario from above.720 views
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The peaks were shrouded in clouds.719 views
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The bay.719 views
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Dark and rainy here, but far in the distance the sun was setting.719 views
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Green patches of Lanzarote.719 views
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Typical architecture.718 views
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O hai! :)718 views
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The sun kept hiding behind one single cloud, which produced a nice play of shadows.717 views
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Many people spend days just walking along several kilometers of the beach.717 views
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Villa Winter at the foot of the mountains.717 views
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There were only a handful of swimmers at the beach.717 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.716 views
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A grid of beach umbrellas? No, thank you.716 views
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A windmill.716 views
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The rocky beach at Los Molinos.716 views
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Puertito de los Molinos.716 views
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The coastal road.715 views
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A scrawny little bush in the sand.715 views
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Play of light and shadow.715 views
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Colorful hills.714 views
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Yep, the water is cold.713 views
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It reminded me of some Greek islands.713 views
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There is a dune looming behind the beach.713 views
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Waiting for the take-off at the Fuerteventura airport.713 views
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The city beach.712 views
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From the road along the peninsula.712 views
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Only sporadic sun rays illuminated the landscape, or in this case, the village of Tindaya.712 views
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Waves overflowing a rocky barrier in front of the cliffs.712 views
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Patterns in the sand were amazing.711 views
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The Betancuria pass was cloudy and dreary.711 views
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Green waves.710 views
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The landscape amazed me.709 views
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The beach is ideal for long walks.709 views
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Lots of greenery around the resort is actually deceiving as the island itself is not nearly as green.708 views
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There was a lookout point ...708 views
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The road is not paved but it's quite easily negotiable.708 views
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Deserted sandy beach.707 views
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Faro del Tostón.707 views
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Climbing the dune.707 views
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Road.707 views
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Interesting wisps of clouds.707 views
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Our lunch, a sea food platter. It was delicious.707 views
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The air traffic is quite busy.707 views
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I noticed an unusual structure at the side of the church.706 views
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A rock in the sand.706 views
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The beach.706 views
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We stayed at an apartment hotel in Corralejo at the northern tip of the island. The place was big, pleasant, quiet, and had several swimming pools for those who preferred to stay put.705 views
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Beaches of Cofete.705 views
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Green window.705 views
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To the south there is a series of sandy beaches and more cliffs in the distance.704 views
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The landscape is barren and almost devoid of settlements, just a house here and there.703 views
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Our next stop was the village of Las Playitas.703 views
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The lighthouse at Puerto de la Cruz.703 views
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Blue skies and white clouds and green waters.703 views
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