Gran Canaria: car tours and walks

Sunflower Travel Guides

by Noel Rochford

4 car tours, 50 long and short walks, 30 picnic suggestions. Gran Canaria is gaining in popularity among countryside enthusiasts, and especially walkers, due to publicity about the old 'caminos reales' centuries-old cobbled trails criss-crossing the island, which have recently been restored with EU funding. Gran Canaria has always been underrated as a holiday destination for lovers of the countryside, due to the fame of its sand-dune beaches and hours of sunshine. But those who know the island would agree that it is truly a 'continent in minature', with a fantastic diversity of landscapes. From the hub of the cumbre, the island's great saddle, ravines (barrancos) are born and fan out seaward like spokes on a wheel. Each has its own little secret to share. In the Barranco de los Cernicalos there are knee-deep grasses and a chuckling stream; the Barranco de la Aldea hides an emerald-green reservoir; the Barranco de Guigui opens out to an incomparable beach.

136 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 1993

Reviews

[Artie LeBlanc]

The Sunflower guides are fantastic slim volumes for walkers - the car tours it is a relatively recent feature. This book gives details of many walks on Gran Canaria - sadly, many of them are vertiginous, so I won't be doing them. However, it is really useful to know in advance.

We find these guides very reliable.