Roque Nublo, Gran Canaria, January 17, 2015

We drove from Maspalomas to the idyllic village Ayacata at the center of the island through the dry semi desert that covers the southern part of the Gran Canaria. From Ayacata we started our hike. We walked up through almond groves, later through wild nature. Unfortunately, the top was covered in clouds and it got more and more windy, rainy and cold. Due to the bad weather, we never reached Roque Nublo in 1817 ms height. El Roque Nublo is the symbol of Gran Canaria. It is an enormous basalt monolith of over seventy metres in height, which was formed by volcanic action during the Pleistocene Era. Instead we descended along small streams and the village of La Culata to the larger town of Tejeda.

View in direction Maspalomas

We drove through the dry semi desert that covers the southern part of the Gran Canaria.

We walked up through almond groves.

The higher we went up, the more wind, rain and fog. It was cold not many degrees above zero!

We never reached the famous Roque Nublo (meaning the rock in the mist) as planned due to the bad weather, but we got close.

Our destination, Roque Nublo, was covered in fog most of the day.

Low hanging clouds

Pit stop at the Bar Roque Nublo in La Culata

Inside the bar

Some locals

Roque Nublo from the Bar Roque Nublo (the restaurant where we had our dinner at Maspalomas was also called “Roque Nublo”!)

Tejeda

Water is scarce and there are many small reservoirs

San Bartolome de Tirajana

San Bartolome de Tirajana

The whole day the mountains were covered in clouds