Timanfaya: Islote de Hilario
Description
The visitors centre has a series of experiments that let you understand how active the land underneath your feet still is - in the first experiment you get to hold some of the pico gravel from the ground, which is hot to touch, almost uncomfortably so. In the second experiment brush is pressed up against the rocks until it bursts into flames from the heat coming out of the rocks. In the third experiment water is poured down 10m holes which is immediately super heated to steam and ejected as a geyser. The final experiment is the grill - designed by César Manrique - which has been happily cooking food for the onsite restaurant since the 1970s
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Getting There
See Timanfaya National Park for details on getting here
Latitude: 29.005628; Longitude: -13.75313
What3Words: shabbier.vocally.unkindly
Disclaimer: Details correct at time of writing (24/11/2021), and on time of last update (02/12/2021) but may no longer be accurate, particularly if some time has passed.