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In late october to early november 2010 we started to fly to the canary island of Gran Canaria. We were billeted in a not so great hotel in Playa Amadores in Puerto Rico. Package with flight and half board. For seven days we rented a car to see something of the island.
All the tourists live in the south of the Island, nearly in a tourist ghetto. Everywhere is a desert and nothing grows. The little green one has created everything. In the center are the high mountains, barely inhabited, in the northeast is everywhere industry. In the north, the landscape is green and there live the locals.
If you try, you easily can escape the flow of tourists. The beach on the sand dunes of Maspalomas is always full of people. But to be honest, it's in Germany in season in Westerland on Sylt quite as full. Gran Canaria is not an island for individual tourists. I knew before. But in november it is good warm, you can swim in the sea and it's only four hours by plane from germany.
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Gran Canaria
Puerto Mogan
The tourist all live in the south, all in giant hotels or apartments. There are housing estates about 22 floors. 10 floors all around in a valley are common. In Playa Amadores near Puerto Rico, we have found a side that is so terrible built whole. But that's enough. Most people are anyway on beach chairs or around the hotel pool. Many move out only at meals. We have tried to see a little from the island, especially in the inland in the mountains and also in the north of the island, where it is green and the locals live.
First we take the bus a few kilometers to Puerto Mogan. This is a pretty small town. One can stroll through the streets, stopping off at one of the many restaurants. In the guide we read that friday is market day. Even if all the tourists go there: Save yourself that, there is only cheap goods for tourists.
Puerto Mogan, port
We take back a ship along the coast to Puerto Rico. From the spot where the ship docks, a good way twenty minutes below the road runs along over to Playa Amadores. If you look towards the sea, it is beautiful. On the mountainside are the hotel boxes.
The dunes of Maspalomas
With a hired car we drive up into the mountains, first to Moganand the way to Ayacata. From there it's not far to the car park from where a good path leads up to Roque Nublo. This time without fog and with a good view to the Theide in Tenerife.
 
 
Roque Nublo - The Pico de les Nieves in the background
On the road to San Bartolome, we find after about 2-3 km in a right turn next to a small, cozy restaurant by locals sit. There are rabbit parts to eat. There are today only 105 km, but we need to have three and a half hours.
 
In the evening the view from our hotel to Playa Amadores
We drive to the northeast. The land is green and the locals live there. From Agüimes up at Mazargan is almost entirely industrial. As we leave the motorway at Teror and go up, the village life begins. Today it is cloudy and foggy, at times falling raindrops. Everywhere there is green.
 
Agüimes - Teror
Teror has a nicely decked out Old Town. We drive up to San Meteo, turn then back again, because we have previously seen a restaurant. Since we are almost the only guests. We eat a young goat and drink wine from the area. The only one of the island, we get to drink. By this we can always find a nice and good restaurant.
 
The most fantastic and wildest road of the island, that is still tarmac, leads out of San Nicolas to Artenara (GC 210). The road is so narrow and so steep, that it sometimes stops the air to breathe.
Barranco de la Aldea
From Artenara we drive to the sea in Puerto de las Nieves. In a warehouse that was converted to a fish restaurant, we eat a fish cocked for two people. We can not eat this completely. Actually it is enough for four people. Back we go to the coast road to San Nicolas. The road is good to drive, but there are few places where you can stop without obstructing traffic. Especially here are trucks on the road. The driver can not see, because he has to drive very concentrated, the passenger, except when he is sitting on the seaside, has appalling views down and can not be happy. Better you go through the mountains and back to La Palma. For the long driving we do not get to go hiking. 200 km we drove that day. Together with lunch time we are over 8 hours on the road.
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Las Palmas by the Pico de Bandama
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