Where to go hiking in Las Palmas Gran Canaria

The city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria It is an ideal destination to make a cultural getaway, beyond enjoying its famous Las Canteras beach.

But in addition to its very interesting heritage sites and of its numerous cultural activities throughout the year, you may be surprised to know that next to the city there are very interesting nature places.

They are ideal places for hiking by areas where the volcanic landscape.

Nature places in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Next we are going to highlight you three nature places What you can know in the municipality of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

They are ideal places for walk and hike along the most rural side of the Canary Islands capital.

Hiking through El Confital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

when you get to visit Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, you will soon see that the city extends along the sea, and that its northernmost slope opens up a peninsula with a volcanic landscape.

Is The Islet, a place that in ancient times was an islet that after various volcanic eruptions joined the main island where the city is now located, creating the isthmus of the Las Canteras beach.

The Islet currently it is a protected natural landscape, part of which in 1898 became a military area after being expropriated to establish defenses during the Cuban War.

It has three main volcanoes, The watchman (219 meters), El Faro (240 meters) and red mountain (239 meters), although there are up to 16 volcanic centers, the most recent being about 36.000 years ago.

En The Islet In addition, a prominent archaeological and ethnographic heritage.

Now, on the western slope of the La Isleta peninsula is the Confital beach, which you can discover during your getaway to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria hiking through the known as Las Canteras Blue Trail.

You will start this excursion in the northernmost area of ​​Las Canteras beach, known as The lace.

There begins a promenade that will take you to the Confital beach.

From Las Canteras, after walking just 50 meters, you will reach the Roque de la Cruz viewpoint, from where do you have a cliff landscape next to which the houses of the La Isleta neighborhood extend.

It is an old working-class neighborhood from which the development of the city began at the beginning of the 20th century, which accelerated with the tourist boom of the 60s.

Currently it is the most popular neighborhood in the port area, although it is becoming fashionable and experiencing an urban development boom.

This area known as the Route of the viewpoints, will take you to the pepe the shoeshine square and until the Confital beach along a route enabled with wooden platforms that facilitate hiking.

The Confital is an example of fossil beach, with similar characteristics to the Ajuy beach in Fuerteventura.

Your name from Confital It comes from petrified seaweed, samples of which you can now find on the beach, and which you will recognize because they look like popcorn.

In this entire area in the 70s and 80s there were shanties where marginal people lived, but after being completely rehabilitated by the Las Palmas town hall, currently it is a corner of nature ideal for walking.

Once the Confital beach, and leaving the vision of the city behind you, you will enter an area characteristic of a volcanic belt.

There you can see remains of the structure of old batteries built in 1941, due to the threat of a possible invasion by the English during the Second World War.

You will also see fenced areas where there were old fish drying rooms, and also by the sea, some natural salt flats.

This final part of the route runs at the foot of the viewpoints of the Las Coloradas neighborhood.

This is an ideal place to climb see the sunset, which you can do in your rental car or in a taxi through the La Isleta neighborhood.

It should be noted that in The Coloradas is The Godfather, one of the most popular restaurants in the city where you can taste a wide variety of canarian food.

Hiking in Bandama in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

If in your city ​​break to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria If you are looking for a special place of nature to go hiking, you should not miss climb to the viewpoint of Pico de Bandama.

In fact, this enclave in the municipality of Las Palmas should always be a must-see, because from the viewpoint you have spectacular views of the city and its surroundings.

In the opposite sense, from the Bandama Peak Located at 569 meters high, you will see the enormous Bandama boiler, which may seem like a crater to you, when in reality it is a volcanic collapse.

With a diameter of one kilometer and 200 meters deep, in the Bandama boiler you have two paths to practice the Hiking, an activity that is advisable to do first thing in the morning.

On the one hand, you have the path that completely surrounds the caldera along its edge, which will take you an hour to travel.

And you also have the option of go down to the bottom of it, where you can reach the houses of an old winery, with a down and up route that lasts an hour and a half.

Guiniguada Trail in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Another alternative you have to hiking for a corner of nature in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is the Guiniguada Trail.

It is a pedestrian route just over 7 kilometers long that starts from the historic neighborhood of Vegueta and takes you to the Botanical Garden.

Specifically, it begins in some banana trees at the foot of the San Roque Cliff, a place that will catch your attention due to the group of houses with colorful facades that extend on the slope of the ravine.

You can do it well walking or cycling, and runs through the Guiniguada ravine between agricultural and livestock farms and with a palm tree landscape.

After a journey of approximately 2 hours, you can end up visiting the aforementioned Botanical Garden, also known as Canary Garden, a place that will catch your attention for its native flora of the island.