Kimmos and Saris Winter Holiday 2002

Sari on Helsinki-Vantaa Airport on Sunday, March 10th 2002 at 6:46am. This is where it all began. (88 kb)
Finnair Airbus 321 by which we flew. (66 kb)
Helsinki-Vantaa Airport from runway side. (50 kb)
Lanzarote from air. (56 kb)
Sari on front of tour operator buss on way to hotel from Arrecife airport. (46 kb)
Our hotel Playa Pocillos. (92 kb)
Puerto del Carmen by night. (66 kb)
Sofa on our hotel rooms living room. (76 kb)
TV and kitchenette on our hotel rooms living room. (75 kb)
On gate to Timanfaya National Park. (61 kb)
Timanfaya (55 kb)
Timanfaya (94 kb)
Timanfaya (119 kb)
Timanfaya (101 kb)
Only place where is possible to ride with camel (actually dromedary) on Lanzarote is on south border of Timanfaya national park. (104 kb)
El golfo (114 kb)
Behind Sari the village Casas de El Golfo. (90 kb)
Salinas de Janubio (99 kb)
Playa Papagayo (87 kb)
View from Femes to south. On coast the village Playa Blanca. Mountains on Fuerteventura can be seen too. (87 kb)
View from near towards east. On rigth town Puerto del Carmen, on left town Arrecife. (87 kb)
Castle of Santa Barbara near Tequise. On rigth lower corner is our rent car blue Renault Clio. (80 kb)
Village Tequise taken from corner of castle Santa Barbara (74 kb)
View to east near Haria. (74 kb)
Island Crasiosa, taken few kms south of Mirador del Rio. (77 kb)
Sari in front of Cueva de los Verdes. (109 kb)
Other mouth of Cueva de los Verdes (actually guided tour ends here). (65 kb)
Inside Cueva los Verdes(42 kb)
Inside Cueva los Verdes (67 kb)
Monumento al Campesiado / Monument of Farming (42 kb)
Fundacion Cesar Manrique is art museum (former home of Cesar Manrique). (42 kb)
Fundacion Cesar Manrique (31 kb)
Restaurante Acatife in Tequise has good service and exellent food. (82 kb)
Sari on front of Jameos del Aqua. (89 kb)
Small lake inside Jameos del Aqua where special white crayfish lives. (62 kb)
Castle San Gabriel in Arrecife (72 kb)
Castle San Jose on edge of Arrecife. Note the ship of Trasmediterranea left from castle. (69 kb)
Castle San Jose from west. (109 kb)
Ad of Museum Tanit, in Arrecife. The museum we didn't bother to find in San Bartolome because roads were closed for road works and therefore signs were misleading. (85 kb)
Grand hotel is being demolished in beach of Arrecife. (47 kb)
Sari in Tequise, castle of Santa Barbara on top of the mountain Guanapay (447 m). (88 kb)
Santa Barbara castle is on a other side of died crater. (95 kb)
Village Tequise from Santa Barbara castle. Note the big football stadium on rigth. (88 kb)
View towards Arrecife from Santa Barbara castle. (68 kb)
View to north from Santa Barbara castle. (74 kb)
Restaurante Casa Suso has bad food and they charge too much. (82 kb)
Bus stop in Tequise. (81 kb)
Bus from Tequise to Arrecife (72 kb)
Bus from Arrecife bus station to Puerto del Carmen (89 kb)
Two ships near Puerto del Carmen, near beach of shipping company Armas (82 kb)
On this cloudy Sunday Playa Matagorda is almost empty. (70 kb)
Playa Matagorda has a flag which tells beach fulfils the EU regulations. (68 kb)
Hotel Beatriz Playa is not so beautiful. (84 kb)
Aeroport de Arrecife. (56 kb)
Sari drinks tea on the Aeroport de Arrecife. (60 kb)
Our Airbus 321 on the Aeroport de Arrecife. (94 kb)
Aeroport de Arrecife. (73 kb)
Arrecife on panorama picture. (72 kb)
Airport of Bordeaux where our plane took fuel both ways. (67 kb)
Our trip ended on aiport of Helsinki where we payed parking fee on March 18th 2002 0:09am. (72 kb)

For information about Lanzarote see www.lanzarote.com. They have a lot of information about Lanzarote and sigths. They even have a small map with links to all sigths.
They have some bus time tables, apparently not all. But still some:
Line 1: Arrecife - Costa Tequise
Line 2: Arrecife - Puerto del Carmen
Line 6: Arrecife - Tias - Playa Blanca
Line 9: Arrecife - Orzola

Better bus timetables can be found on LanzaroteDigital.com, under buses, and in Spanish under Guaguas.

Better map can be found on www.lanzaroteisland.com, under maps.


Back to my homepage. All pictures copyrigth Kimmo Kotimäki 2002. Created 1.4.2002 Kimmo Kotimäki. Last changed 13.5.2002 Kimmo Kotimäki. 3130 visits Apr 8th 2002-May 28th 2007.