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One day up high: Roque de los Muchachos in the morning, when the sea of clouds is clean, then down to Santa Cruz in the afternoon. The second, the south: the Fuencaliente salt pans and the Tajogaite volcano. Two days give you the summit and the coast, but not the Caldera.
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14 km · by transport hasta la siguiente
18 km · by transport hasta la siguiente
💡The island is small and the drives are long
It is forty-seven kilometres end to end, but almost all of it is bends and changes of altitude: from sea level to the 2,400 metres of the Roque in a long hour. Double whatever the sat-nav says, and do not put the summit and the south on the same day. And it can be foggy up top with sun below, or the other way round.
💡It is a Starlight Reserve, and it shows
La Palma was the first place in the world to earn that certification, and a 1988 Canary law regulates lighting across the whole island so as not to spoil the sky. The result is that from any road up on the ridge, with no telescope at all, you see the entire Milky Way. Check the moon phase before picking your night: with a full moon you see almost nothing.
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