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Timanfaya Fire Mountains - El Diabolo (Restaurant)

Cesar Manrique designed the Restaurant El Diabolo

View to the central restaurant and tourist centre designed by Cesar Manrique - the restaurant/café "El Diabolo". From here you may start your sightseeing tour by bus (included in the entrance you pay at the tollhouse) - a must, when you are here - the busses have air condition and all information in English You will enjoy the breath taking views into the craters and the lava valleys...

Stories relate that great flames and stinking ash shot out of the volcanoes into the sky, when the earth opened with a deafening noise. The sun was darkened for a long time while poisonous ashes rained down with flaming bits of lava.
Cows fell dead in the fields and the mountain goats were said to have banged their heads against the rocks in fear, until they too died.
Those people who could, fled the island in boats and went to Fuerteventura.
A weaker eruption followed in 1824. Nothing remains of the once fertile part of Lanzarote, where cows grazed and, thanks to the mild climate, farmers raised good crops.

Those who take the road by car, from Yaiza to the Timanfaya National Park, feel how strange the lava landseape is, and yet how fascinating with the rust-red mountains in the background. Past the ear-park, where one can take a camel ride through the lava, one continues up to the main car-park of the National Park. (Entrance charges: car with 2 persons, about 2,000 pesetas, includes the bus ride round the craters).

Busses leave the car-park every 10 minutes and take you to see the volcanoes and gigantic rocks from the eruptions, The busses go along narrow paths for about 10km. through the national park, and it is quite an experience to look through the windows down into huge craters and lava caves, and see the gigantic rock formations made by once molten lava.

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