Day 32 - Lanzarote - North

Today we were planning to go to Fuerteventura Island for some sight seeing as the next following day, H needed to fly back to London and we didn't want to be rushed with time. We thought that we could easily head over the port and purchase a return ticket to ship our car over to the other island for a day. But by the time we arrived there and got in line, we realised that all the tickets were sold out for the times we wanted to go and come back.

Luckily tickets were still available for tomorrow so we decided to change our plans around. Explore the north of the island today, Fuerteventura tomorrow: SORTED

Luckily, I had printed off some attractions from some research i did just before the trip. Also a tour company was handing out brochures of their day trips so we were able to just follow their itinerary and travel to these tour attractions ourselves.

- Monumento Al Campesino
As we needed to head up north, we passed this monument and Casa Museum. We stopped for a toilet break and some photo opportunities. The Peasant's Monument and the Casa Museum were created to immortalize the difficult labour of Lanzarote's rural community. The museum was an old farm that was restored to preserve Canary architecture. What i like about this museum and also all the houses on this island is that they are all white. And most of the roof on these houses are flat... very simple but nice design.

- Teguise
We didn't get a chance to stop by this town cuz it was quite hard to parking. Even though they had their Sunday markets but we weren't sure what this town had so we continued to drive further north

- Mirador del Rio
This is a viewpoint situated on the very north of this island. This viewpoint looks out to the archaic island of La Graciosa. When we arrived, the skies were really cloudy. The views were amazing but it was just too cloudy & windy. We couldn't see much standing out on the platform so we decided to sit in the cafe for a coffee break. Luckily, the skies started to clear up so we headed out for some more shots and this time around the photos definitely looked much better

- Cueva de los Verdes
The Cueva de los Verdes or Green Caves are part of the Atlantida underground Cave system formed during the eruptions of the Corona Volcano. The original inhabitants (Guanches) and later the Hispanic population, would shelter here from Pirates that once tormented the Island.

The tunnel is over 6 km long with an additional 1.6 km under the sea but only 2km are open to the public.

The walk inside the tunnel was interesting as they artifically lit of the walls for people to see the formations. We didn't realise that there is a little secret about these caves. But once we arrived at that particular location... wow... we were totally amazed!! I don't think I should tell you guys what the secret is. But seriously it amazed every single one of us... it's definitely one of the highlights of visiting these tourist attractions. A definite must visit if any of you guys decide to visit Lanzarote in the future!!

- Jardin de Cactus
This tourist attraction features more than 10,000 cacti. We were hoping to arrive at this place to take a photo with the big cactus at the entrance to the garden. Everyone was so excited cuz we thought that the cactus would be real but when we arrived there is FAKE!! Everyone was shocked but i was ok about it... somehow i had a feeling it would be fake. But oh well, we still took a photo with it and decided to not pay the entrance fee to check out the other cacti.

- Jameos del Agua
We didn't have much time left to visit this place as it was getting late. We were starving cuz we missed lunch and just felt that there wasn't gonna be a wow factor about checking out a galleries of connecting caves and underground grottoes so we decided to head back to the hotel to have an early dinner instead.

We ate heaps cuz we were so hungry and after dinner when we were sitting at the reception surfing the net, one of the staff came over and asked us if we were interested in playing a game of Bingo. I was quite interested as I haven't played one of these games in ages. All i could think of now was... "B I N G O, B I N G O, B I N G O and bingo was his name O"

Dat was quite lucky that night. He ended up winning the whole game where he had to tick off all the numbers on his sheet. He went up on stage to receive his prize... a bottle of champagne!!

The hotel has different performances each night so tonight there was gonna be a Polynesian dance show. Straight after the bingo game, the performance started. I was quite intrigued with the girl's luna dancing... their hip movement was just amazing... really wish i could dance like that.

After a few different dances, the 2 male performers asked 6 male audiences to go up on stage to perform one of their chants. The male performers spotted Dat and asked him to go up on stage. All the guys ended up taking off their tops and had to perform the routine 2 at a time.

I managed to capture his performance on my phone and along the way, you can just hear me and this lady laughing so much... it was just hiliarious.

After that we thought it was gonna be over but it wasn't. This time it was the female performers to ask people to go up on stage. We thought that girls was gonna go up on stage but in the end, they targeted Dat again to go on stage!! He had to wear the skirt, coconut bra and flower head band... and follow their dance moves. Dat followed every move to the perfection and was so into this whole experience where everyone in the audience was just laughing their heads off!!

I've never laughed that much before (actually the other time was on the ski trip in the guys). My stomach was in so pain but it was such a memorable night!! Definitely a night to remember in the future!