@brittarnhild
La Gomera is a small island, with only 23.000 inhabitants, and not very many tourists. A perfect place for us (thgough I see the controversy in us coming here as tourists, praising the lack of them.) Few tourists also means that there are few places built especially for the tourists industry, and also few guidebooks to tell you about the island.
Yesterday we went hiking. While driving around we have been impressed by all the marked hiking tracks. I am sure you could spend years here, following new tracks every single day. We have an old Thomas Cook traveller´s guide though, describing Grand Canaria and Tenerife, and in this book are alsi a few pages on La Gomera. With one walk described.
It was on our way to the little village where we would start our hike that I found a sign with the words Jardin Botanico. And of course I knew what we would do after our mountain hike.
It turned out to be difficult to find the garden though. Apparently it was closed and long abandonded. A garden from the day before. Nowhere to stop along the road, but down in the narrow valley Terje found a kind of pathway, more like an Ethiopian countryside road, where he manoeuvered the car in a snail´s pace. Coming to a dead end he stopped and decided to have a little nap in the car, while I grabbed my camera and walked out to explore.
First thing I found was a dilapidated bridge over an almost overgrown river. I crawled over, and found myself in an enchanted garden.
Once this must have been a beautiful place. Closing my eyes, feeling the wind, smelling the fragrances, I could inagine part of its old glory.
I would love to learn more about the garden, but the only link I´ve found so far is in Spanish, and with the slow wifi I´m having for the moment I have had no chance to translate it. May be you can? Here is the link: Jardin Botanico
And if I find a better internet connaction later today I´ll add a few more enchanted photos.
