A return visit to the Volcàn Templo La geria area including Montañas Cardona and Cueva de Ortiz. The walk is a good a good 3½ hours or so, mostly flat and for the most part well marked.
All considering we have had quite a dry winter and spring, so we were quite supprised on our return to this area with the variety of plant life flourishing.
We found grapes of course, but also mulberry bushes, guava, figs and tomatoes, all growing and fruiting well with no irrigation mechanisms.
For those interested in identifying the various plants you find on a walk, I have found this web site quite helpful, plantnet.org.
A collection of excellent books about the nature of Lanzarote, naturalanza.com
Volcàn Templo La geria – History
To read about the history of the area and the small village of Uga, you can checkout the following sites:
The sites are in Spanish, so if it helps I have made an attempt to summarise a few topics of interest in the History section.