21-11-22

Checking out and saying good-bye to Corralejo, I’m taking the bus back to La Oliva, and then another bus on to Tindaya (jumping over half a day’s gravel road hike).

The plan is to hike to the top of la Montaña de Tindaya – the sacred mountain – to see if I can find the ancient rock carvings that I read about…

…but turns out that access is forbidden, presumably to conserve the carvings. Both bad luck and good luck – saves me climbing some 200m (especially since the weather is quite hazy there probably wasn’t that much of a view anyway).

So I go on hiking towards Tefía.

And then more of this:

Too late I realize I’ve walked past the best viewpoint to see the monument for the Spanish writer Don Miguel de Unamuno, who was exiled to Fuerteventura in 1924.

And relatively quickly I arrive at Tefía, and have a late lunch / rest break by the lovely (but closed) Eremita de San Augustin.

And since I have quite a bit of time left before catching another bus to today’s hotel, I thought I’ll drop by the Ecomuseo de la Alcogida – a mini version of ‘folkemuseet’ or ‘Höfemuseum’, with several restored traditional farm buildings that aim to show how the Majoreros (the native Canarians) used to live.

But guess what? It’s Monday… and the museum is closed. (closed – seems to be the motto of the day 😉

Anyway, I could still sneak a peek at the outside of some of the buildings:

After that, I call it a day and find my bus stop; totaling approx. 13km (with heavy backpack).

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