To be precisely, nearly all streets on Gran Canaria are old paths for us, because we drove all of them more or less at earlier visits.
But first another view from our balcony, this time at day.
Below there is roundabout, where the coast street passes. On the right we could also see the bus terminal of the village. We spend a lot of time on our balcony, especially in the evening/night. Puerto Rico seems always busy and a lot of taxis and busses are coming and going. So we had always a lot of fun, watching what was going on.
Back to the trip…
We went on the motorway to Maspalomas and had a bit problems to find the street up to Fataga, as the direct exit exists only on the other lane.
This street is also demanding, but not so narrow. However very fast it’s protracting in often close turns up the barranco (river valley). From the Mirador de Fataga we had a fantastic view over the coast and Maspalomas:
Fataga itself is a very beautiful little village. Unfortunatly we couldn’t drink fresh orange juice here, as the times before, the little premises were closed.
Further to San Bartolomé de Tirajana. The town is very neat. We strolled a bit aroung and after an look on the map we decided how to continue.
We drive in direction sea and came to Santa Lucia de Tirajana. A lot happend here, the center has been constructed new and very nice.
After Santa Lucia comes furthermore the Fortalezza Grande. Here was one of the last refuges of the Guanchen, the canarian natives before the Spanish came. After the legend about 1600 people holed up here. Most of them were persuaded to give up, only two leaders preferred to fall themselves to death. The Guanchen merged fastly in the Spanish new arrivals, as those, if they wanted to stay and get ground on the island, had to be married.
However, many of todays natives don’t feel as Spanish but as Canarians and try, to keep the heir of the Guanchen alive as much as this is possible.
It dragged us to the sea, to Pozo Izquierdo, and further to Playa del Ingles and Maspalomas. There we beheld what happened around the Faro, it was much. As we determined, even here not in a bad way but with a good taste.
