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La Palma, the greenest island in the Canary Islands, offers a a variety of landscapes that hardly any other, comparably small-scale region in the world can offer. Wide valleys, wild gorges gorges and crater landscapes, pine and laurel forests, banana plantations, cascades and waterfalls contrast with each other. Walking is the trump card here and all the beautiful, deep black beaches pale in comparison to the lure of nature, which surprises with ever-changing with ever-changing scenery - an unparalleled pleasure stroll between glistening lava between glistening lava beaches, lush laurel forests and cloud-covered ridges <br><br><div>La Palma, the greenest island in the Canary Islands, offers a variety of landscapes that hardly any other small-scale region in the world can match. Wide valleys, wild gorges and crater landscapes, pine and laurel forests, banana plantations, cascades and waterfalls contrast with each other. Walking is the trump card here and all the beautiful, jet-black beaches pale in comparison to the lure of nature, which surprises with ever-changing scenery at every turn - an unparalleled pleasure stroll between glistening lava beaches, lush laurel forests and cloud-enshrouded ridges, with the blue Atlantic ever-present.</div><div>La Palma is perfect for nature lovers who love walking and are looking for experiences away from noisy seaside resorts and cheap sights. The Rother hiking guide "La Palma" presents a wide range of entertaining tour suggestions covering all regions of the island: From sweat-inducing excursions into the wildest barrancos of the north to sunset romance on the two-thousand-metre peaks and the all-conquering volcano route - from comfy routes amidst bright green pine forests and dark lava flows to the island's most spectacular hiking destination, the huge primeval landscape of the Caldera de Taburiente, one of the largest erosion craters in the world, shielded by thousand-metre-high rock faces.</div><div>This Rother hiking guide is the most comprehensive hiking book on La Palma and has been tried and tested for many years. An all-round successful hiking guide, illustrated with detailed map sections and featuring GPS tracks, which arouses curiosity and can only be warmly recommended to all mountain lovers of La Palma.</div><div>For the current edition, this Rother hiking guide has been carefully updated and extended by two routes.</div><br><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Klaus and Annette Wolfsperger | Rother Bergverlag | 17th edition 2017 | 248 pages | 209 color illustrations, 69 hiking maps at a scale of 1:50,000/1:100,000, 70 elevation profiles, an overview map at a scale of 1:250,000 | format 11.5 x 16.5 cm | paperback with Polytex lamination</span></p>