Lanzarote has appr.300 vulcanos, most are in the Southern part.
That picture was taken from the plane, coming from Dublin Airport, landing in Arrecife a few minutes later.
Our pool area, which I loved most in the evenings, when it was empty. How wonderful quiet and no fights for the best grilling place in the sun!
We stayed in Playa Blanca, which is in the South of Lanzarote. We were very happy that our travel agent suggested that place to us as it seemed to be a quieter area than some other ones.
We were surprised that the shop owners in the village were mainly Chinese or Indian. One Indian shop owner, who sold cigarettes and cameras, wanted to cheat us, but he did not reckon with my clever husband, who showed him that tourists are not stupid!
We stayed in one of the H10 Hotels, called Hotel Princess, which offers daily different varities of food, e.g. one day Italien, another day Mexican, but you also had a big choice of common meals. I am afraid I put on some extra pounds in only one week!
The pictures above show the surroundings and an Irish Bar, which we visited one evening. There are lots of Irish Pubs in Playa Blanca, my husband counted 12, but there could be even more.
It seems the taxis are different colours in every town, in Playa Blanca they are all red, as you can see.
The Farmer's Monument, created by Cesar Manrique, a name you will hear often, when you are in Lanzarote, because this artist came from the island and had lots of influence in the modern creation of it.
The Farmer's houses had to be white painted and as green was the colour, which was used for boats and was given by the government free, people from this area used that colour also for painting their windows and doors. 
Cesar Manrique found a place with 5 vulcanic bubbles, out of one was a fig tree growing, so he came to the idea to build his house into these bubbles and he left the fig tree untouched, where it was.
Manrique lived in this house for a long time, but not all his life, he spent his last years in a new house in Haria, where he originally came from and left the vulcanic house as a museum to the visitors.
Though Lanzarote belongs to Spain, the landscape looks more African, which is logical as it is nearer to Africa than to Spain. It is said that the first people on this island came from Africa, but there is not much known about their heritage. The former king's daughter was called Teguise, a Spanish conquerer fell in love with her and made her to his wife, the story says, that's why the former capital city was called after her. Though the capital city is Arrecife now, the citizens still prefer to think it is Teguise.
That is the highest view point Penas del Chache, which is about 670 metres only, not really high for someone who comes from a country with much higher mountains!
Haria, the "Valley of the thousand palms." Well, I don't know, if there are 1000 palms, but there are many. It was tradition to plant 1 palm for every newborn son and 2 palms for every newborn girl in the valley.
At the end of our tour, we went into a lava tunnel called the Green Caves, that name came from the family Green, who was hiding in this caves, when the Spanish occupiars landed.
Fotos by Margit Anna Binder (Doyle)
You are not allowed to pick lava stones from Lanzarote and bring them home in your luggage, except the ones you can officially buy.
There is a little pond in the cave, where you can see tiny white Albino Crabs, which are unique and only found on this island, but they are so small that you only see white dots in the water. You need a camera with zoom to see the crabs bodies.
Photos inside the cave by Denis Doyle
