Within the diverse ecosystem in the Canary Islands we find, in El Hierro, with the youngest island of the seven that form the archipelago, with an age of 1.2 million years. It formed when magma broke, the seabed, creating a Y-shaped gap through which lava began to leave, leaving the island with so this feature.
El Hierro is the most densely island volcanoes in the Canary Islands, craters more than 500 open and 300 covered by more recent lava flows. Currently there are 70 caves and volcanic tubes documented, highlighting the Cueva de Don Justo with 6 kilometers long.
The contrast is its small size, 278 km2, and their height, in Malpaso are reached 1500 m. This produces different types of climates and vegetation in the same ground. From the airport to La Restinga, the destination that are directed Divers who visit the island, we can observe lunar space craters of volcanoes near the road, green meadows livestock such as cows, horses and goats, separated only by small stone fences that give a romantic touch to the landscape, to As we climbed through thick fog with large forests of pine and laurel, as he calls the native forest.
In the north we see attractions like the famous Blue Pool, half cave near the sea, the Well of Calcosas, village nestled at the bottom of a cliff where buying a house is worth 6000 euros, the smallest hotel in the world with its four rooms reserved and always with a view to the Roques de Salmor, where the Iron Giant Lizard.
Well worth checking out the Sabinar, Sabine
that folded its branches shaped by the wind, a symbol of the
island, the Mirador of the Basques, where you see everything
Border Gulf and the island of La Palma, El Mirador
Cesar Manrique, viewpoint
and restaurant in one, the holy tree Garoe, lime leaves with drops of dew collected,
drops that fall to the ground seeped concentrating on elevators
natural (reservoirs). Water consumed by bimpapes after (or Bambiches) in dry season.
On good days from the road Pinar-Valverde can be seen three islands: La Palma, Gomera and Tenerife.
Once at the Restinga enjoy a pleasant climate and very quiet. Their dives in the Marine Reserve Sea of Calm, crystal clear waters provide us with a good temperature and marine life to enjoy. From the sea of calm we can see the lighthouse Orchilla considered from Ptolemy (s II AD) as the end of the world until Columbus came to America. Ptolemy I put the zero meridian at this point until 1884 he was transferred to Greenwich.
In short a vacation across the world in El Hierro..