It compensates for the crowds and cars. Once past the Parador, climbing over the ridge of the caldera at the end of the day, we are alone again. It's a beautiful place, looking towards the volcano and enjoying the majestic flower spires of the Taginastes that grow abundantly here. This plant only flowers after many years, and it then dies soon. On the other side of the ridge the lancscape takes a dramatic turn.
Trees grow here and clouds push on into the valleys.
This night we stay near a little building belonging to the irrigation system of the island and we sleep in the open. We don't succeed in finding it. We continue through forests, along small irrigation canals, over sandy mountain slopes. Finally, we reach a track and many hot and humid kilometres later the village of Vilaflor. We stay in a hotel.