Caldera de Taburiente, La Palma, December 2015

La Palma, December 2015

Enjoying the Christmas week on La Palma, re-visited after twenty years.

Staying just below the Caldera edge in the suburbs of Los Llanos de Aridane still dominated by banana plantages, we made quite a few excursions by car and by foot all over the island. Re-visiting the it after almost two decades of absence we had to state that it has now much, much better roads, quite a lot of surprisingly luxurious fincas hidden here or there, a thriving and slightly alternative expat scene and fancy restaurants. The traffic lights in Los Llanos came by surprise, but they seem to be necessary now — the traffic is now much higher that 20 years ago, but still nothing to make you nervous. Anyway, La Palma remains my favourite of all the Canaries, still the best one for unstrained hiking, any time of year…

The picture galleries below (the same content, different resolution) illustrate a few trips of a very varios character and from very different parts of the island.