Volcán de San Antonio — Attraction in Fuencaliente de la Palma

🌋 Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past. Walking around #volcanic #boulders and witnessing past #eruptions is a sobering experience. It creates a sense of tension, akin to walking across a frozen pond whose ice could break at any moment.

🏜️ The volcanic desert is a landscape that is simultaneously powerful and fragile. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥.

🌪️𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒍, 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆.

🌵I considered the incidents that have taken place here already. Despite the apparent lack of vegetation, I have observed a single flower in the farthest rear spot. If you're interested in fairy tales, as I am, one might find "The Beauty and the Best" a useful reference.

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A must visit while on La Palma. As soon as you enter you have to pay at the entrance of the parking, even if you're here on foot (not inside the visitor's centre as many assume). After entering there is a small exhibition which is quite interesting (usually I'm not that interested but this one was unusual and interesting). Then you get to the volcano and the view is just amazing. Never experienced anything as fascinating as this....

The visitor centre is very interesting, giving lots of information about the formation of the Canary islands and La Palma in particular. Good videos of the 1971 and 2021 eruptions on La Palma. Also having the opportunity to walk around the caldera of the volcano that wasn't there just 300 years ago was very interesting. In a million or so years time there will be a new canary island to...