It may be unbelievable, but beach visits on Gran Canaria are not so easy for the ambitious
visitor.
The beach of Maspalomas is fantastic for us – in the evening. We are not one of those people sitting in the strong sun for hours. At our laziest days we stayed until three hours at a beach under a sunshade, but if we don’t have that possibility, it’s much more less.
You have to walk a while to find a place more empty at Maspalomas, and at days there might it be difficult to find an nice parking space.
The little beach of Puerto Rico has two disadvantages: It is a bit like a bath tube and small – and there is no free parking space as the whole area there is blue zone. So first we took a look onto the (how it was proved gravelstone-) beach of Tasarte and drove then two times to Puerto de Mogán.
Imagine Gran Canaria a bit as a clock (this is of course not correct, as the middle of the island is much more North than Mogán but I think, this picture fits the needs). You can circiut the whole island – until the quarter from six to nine o’clock. At six there is Puerto de Mogán, from there you have to go in direction to the middle, to drive shortly after Mogán in direction nine o’clock (there is La Aldea / San Nicholas). The street runs along mountains, above several valleys. And at the locations you can drive on streets back to the sea.
We tried two of those street in this vacation: The first, coming from Mogán is at Veneguera, where it is shortly behind the village only a piste, it can be driven with a normal car and the whole area is beautiful, but it needs a bit of ability and patience. The second is at Tasarte. Not so nice as the Veneguera-down-hill but nearly until the beach tarred and good for driving. The last is Tasartico, but as written in our guide it should be very hard to drive.
In any case, the mornings started again with a look down to the roundabout in Puerto Rico. You can see two busses and on the right a part of the bus station.

On our way to Tasarte we passed again ’Los Azulejos’. This time we stopped directly unter the rocks. There is also a nice little bar, leaded by a German.


As written above, the beach of Tasarte is pure gravelstone and very exposed. Maybe somthing for surfers but surely nothing for swimmers. But here is a little restaurant which shall be not so bad as hour guide says. It was before lunchtime and for us to early for eating fish.




After a stop we drove back to Puerto de Mogán and went there to the beach. It is not so bad, and there were not so many visitors. Arne had a lot of fun in the water (I love it more to knit at the beach). Unfortunatly there is nearly no shadow and as I felt the sun although I used a good sunblocker and my arms where already bronzy, we had to leave after a short while.


In the evening we went again to the other beach, to Maspalomas. As it was low tide, we decided to stroll on the promenade on the other side, at Meloneras. There are many nice shops and a center, some are exclusiv and expensive, other not (but never cheap in the bad way) and we made some nice shoppings.




The last photo shows the vestiges of a Guanchen-Settlement, which where found there and where integrated in an exploratory way.
At hour second visit at the Playa de Puerto de Mogán we were a bit more earlier and could stay a bit longer, as a tree throw his sheadow on a place backwards at the wall.

