Olsen Cruise Blog

Lanzarote is another volcanic island and is the one that has the least amount of green areas. Much of the island is black lava flows and blacks ash/sand.
Our tour took us first to a camel ride through the black dunes, we then moved onto the Timanfaya national park to look at various demonstrations of the hot rock only a few meters below the surface. Demonstrations included setting fire to dry bushes and a hot geyser that fired every time water was poured down a tube to a depth of 10 meters.
From there we drove through the lava flows on a specially constructed road and managed to get some excellent pictures of the arid landscape. On our way back to the ship, we called at the coast to see the strange rock formations made by lava pouring into the sea. We had to return promptly to the ship for an early sailing to Agadir in Morocco. The weather looked a little rough for the crossing and this proved to be true as we pitched and rolled rather violently over the waves, leaving a few passengers quite ill!