Walk to Playa Caleta

Starting in Hermigua, we walked on unmade hillside paths, quite narrow in places along the cliffs, for 10km with 400m of ascent and 600m of descent to Playa Caleta. The walk had started by going up through a valley of banana plantations, where we stopped for our picnic lunch and a drink at a bar, before descending steeply across a lava field which met the cliff path.
We had a good view of Mount Tiede on Tenerife in the morning.
Playa Caleta has a volcanic black sand beach although it was being battered by the heavy waves. The bar and cafe which we were looking forward to had been closed to discourage visitors going into the often rough sea.
Returning to San Sebastian by coach, we went to a smart restaurant which served watercress soup and rabbit, both local specialities.
Before dinner, some of us had a demonstration from a couple of ladies of the whistling which the locals used to use to communicate across the valleys.Read more