Paisajes de Marte en Lanzarote

. These caves are one of the most outstanding natural shows of Lanzarote, with a unique beauty, was formed following an eruption of the Volcano of the Crown.

The Cave of the Greens was used as a hiding place when attacks or pirate invasions took place during the centuries XVI and XVII. Already in the century XIX the cave was a must for travelers and experts who, attracted by the beauty of their formations, tried to investigate how capricious nature had created such structures.

The unique beauty of the Cueva de los Verdes caused the Cabildo de Tenerife to commission Jesús Soto to adapt the caves and be able to perform activities inside.

As you enter its interior, you enter a volcanic tunnel that is 6 kilometers long. There is a part that was conditioned as an auditorium that is perfectly integrated into the cave, it also has a part called the esthetes room, the throat of death or the door of the mulberry.

The cave of the greens has a series of galleries connected to each other and perfectly conditioned to be able to visit it.

in the archipelago. The park is part of the municipality of Yaiza, but also of the adjoining municipality of Tinajo. Timanfaya was declared National Park in 1974, becoming the third protected area of the Canary archipelago.

Timanfaya represents an interesting example of recent volcanism in the Macaronesian Region. These eruptions took place in 1730 and 1736, and finally in 1824 and created spectacular geomorphological structures of great volcanological interest.

The beauty of the Timanfaya National Park lies in the absence of a mantle of vegetation along with the extreme rugosity of the terrain, the impossible shapes, the colors that go from reds, browns and ocher reaching blacks and oranges, in addition to the silhouettes of the volcanoes and an abrupt coastline, in short a Martian spot on the island.

Inside the park you can see a lot of phenomena of volcanic nature, clear sample of the activity that the area presents, you can see geysers, gorse combustion and you could even see how food is cooked in the heat that emanates from the earth. An essential place in Lanzarote.

striking color, it is located in the Volcanoes Natural Park in the middle of Timanfaya National Park, in the town of El Golfo is within the municipality of Yaiza.

From the name of Charco de los Clicos due to the seafood that used to be in the area and that were edible, currently extinct.

The Clicos has that greenish hue so striking that it makes it stand out from the volcanic landscape of all the blacks and ochres around it due to a type of seaweed that lives in the waters , joined to the sulfur that contains the water.

Around the pond you can find an elevation of the land that corresponds to a crater whose last eruption dates from the eighteenth century, just in front there is a beach of black sand where it is possible to see deposited olivine.

The Charco de los Clicos or Charco Verde has dimensions of 100 meters, the sea connects with it through cracks found in the subsoil. In the northern part of the pond there is a viewpoint from where you can see the whole area of the pool and the beach.

force of the sea and that makes it an impressive postcard of Yaiza.

The Hervideros are some cliffs that are inside the Timanfaya National Park, with the rough sea they are flogged in a virulent way, being a show that is not I could go unnoticed. The Hervideros are the result of the cooling of the lava that arose in some of the eruptions that took place in this part of Lanzarote.

The name of Los Hervideros receives this name because when the water hits violently it sneaks through the holes and jumps looking like the water is boiling. This natural area located in the Timanfaya Park, goes from Salinas de Janubia to El Golfo.

To get to the Hervideros, you have to take a path that is already an attraction, some accesses created by the Canarian artist César Manrique, that already during the trip they are preparing the visitors of the spectacular natural surroundings to which they are going to arrive. Los Hervideros is part of a landscape triangle that includes the Hervidero itself and is completed by Salinas de Jandía and Charco de los Clicos.