Walking on La Gomera and El Hierro. Paddy Dillon

      

      About the Author

      Paddy Dillon is a prolific walker and guidebook writer, with almost 100 books to his name and contributions to 40 other titles. He has written for several outdoor magazines and other publications and has appeared on radio and television.

      Paddy uses a tablet computer to write as he walks. His descriptions are therefore precise, having been written at the very point at which the reader uses them.

      Paddy is an indefatigable long-distance walker who has walked all of Britain’s National Trails and several European trails. He has also walked in Nepal, Tibet, Korea and the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the US. Paddy is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild and President of the Backpackers Club.

      Other Cicerone guides by the author

      Glyndwr’s Way

      Mountain Walking in Mallorca

      The Cleveland Way and the Yorkshire Wolds Way

      The GR5 Trail

      The GR20 Corsica

      The Great Glen Way

      The Irish Coast to Coast Walk

      The Mountains of Ireland

      The National Trails

      The North York Moors

      The Pennine Way

      The Reivers Way

      The South West Coast Path

      The Teesdale Way (Martin Collins; updated by Paddy Dillon)

      Trekking in Greenland

      Trekking in Mallorca

      Trekking in the Alps (contributing author)

      Walking and Trekking in Iceland

      Walking in County Durham

      Walking in Menorca

      Walking in Sardinia

      Walking in the Isles of Scilly

      Walking in the North Pennines

      Walking on Arran

      Walking on Guernsey

      Walking on Jersey

      Walking on Gran Canaria

      Walking on La Palma

      Walking on Lanzarote and Fuerteventura

      Walking on Madeira

      Walking on Malta

      Walking on Tenerife

      Walking the Wales Coast Path

      WALKING ON LA GOMERA AND EL HIERRO

      45 DAY WALKS AND TREKS FOR ALL ABILITIES

      by Paddy Dillon

      JUNIPER HOUSE, MURLEY MOSS,

      OXENHOLME ROAD, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA9 7RL

      www.cicerone.co.uk

      © Paddy Dillon 2020

      Second edition 2020

      ISBN 9781783628308

      First edition 2011 Reprinted 2016

      ISBN 9781852846015

      ISBN 9781849656528

      This book is the second in a new series of five guides to Walking on the Canary Islands, replacing Paddy Dillon’s previous Cicerone guides:

      Walking in the Canary Islands, Vol 1: West

      ISBN 9781852843656

      Walking in the Canary Islands, Vol 2: East

      ISBN 9781852843687

      Printed by KHL Printing, Singapore

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.

       Route mapping by Lovell Johns www.lovelljohns.com Contains OpenStreetMap.org data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. Nasa relief data courtesy of ESRI.

      Updates to this Guide

      While every effort is made by our authors to ensure the accuracy of guidebooks as they go to print, changes can occur during the lifetime of an edition. Any updates that we know of for this guide will be on the Cicerone website (www.cicerone.co.uk/841/updates), so please check before planning your trip. We also advise that you check information about such things as transport, accommodation and shops locally. Even rights of way can be altered over time.

      The route maps in this guide are derived from publicly available data, databases and crowd-sourced data. As such they have not been through the detailed checking procedures that would generally be applied to a published map from an official mapping agency, although we have reviewed them closely in the light of local knowledge as part of the preparation of this guide.

      We are always grateful for information about any discrepancies between a guidebook and the facts on the ground, sent by email to [email protected] or by post to Cicerone, Juniper House, Murley Moss, Oxenholme Road, Kendal LA9 7RL.

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      Front cover: The Barranco del Valle on La Gomera (Walks 13 and 21)

      CONTENTS

       Map key

       Overview map

       INTRODUCTION

       Location

       Geology

       Wildlife

       National parks

       The Fortunate Isles

       Getting there

       When to go

       Accommodation

       Health and safety

       Food and drink

       Language

       Money