Airport series: Arrecife

Well, just another airport. Only the picture behind the windows is different from others...

Lanzarote sun

Sunset on Lanzarote..or was it sunrise, don't remember...anyway beautiful colors of the mediterranean sun. Wish I could be there now, get away from the never ending snow and ice...just drop down on on of these beach chairs...dressed only in shorts and sunglasses..

Day and night

One of the small cafes with a view at the ocean, a good spot to spend the late and still hot afternoons at Lanzarote.Well, real Italians don't drink cappucino late in the day, that's what I heard......but who cares :-)
It is important to drink regularly in such hot environment :-)
Amazing night sky over the island, there's almost no dust cloud. Sort of hypnotic to look at these millions of stars...
The island racer had to sleep outside, between fields of cacti and in a cooling breeze from the Atlantic ocean, bringing the low sounds of the waves hitting the coast rocks in the distance.

Jardin de cactus

In the rather calm Northern part of Lanzarote people used to earn a living with the production of carmin red dye by farming cochineal from cacti. Nowadays this dye is made articially, the large cati plantations are still there, though.

As one of his latest artworks the famous local artist Cesar Manrique designed and constructed a cactus garden in a volcanic cave.
The garden itself is rather small but lovely, with somy tiny lakes.
For whoever is into cacti, this not very cuddly kind of plants, here are a couple of close-ups of the inhabitants of this garden..