“The history of the globe instructs us, that volcanoes destroy what they have been a long series of ages in creating…” Alexander Von Humboldt, Naturalist and Explorer. It’s hard to stand in Lanzarote’s Timanfaya National Park and imagine that the lands spread around you were once green, fertile and filled with the swaying heads of ...
“See how the local birds sit very still on the rocks,” says Carmen, pointing to the sheer cliff face of Alegranza as our boat slowly inches closer to the shoreline. “That’s because they know that the falcon only takes its prey on the wing.” I’m squinting at the island from the deck of the Isla ...