CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Las Palmas de Gran Canaria it runs 98 km to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; allow about 2 h 00 of riding. The stops in between: Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gr and back through Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gr. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 30 km this is Gran Canaria Mountain Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Las Palmas is a city that does not look like most people's idea of a Spanish island. It is large, with nearly four hundred thousand people, it sprawls along a narrow neck of land between two seas, and it is the busiest port in the Canary Islands. The beach of Las Canteras, a long curve of sand sheltered by a reef, runs right through the city, and the old district of Vegueta, with its colonial plazas and the cathedral, recalls the days when ships bound for the Americas stopped here for water.
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Las Palmas is where the day begins. Next is Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gr.
Gran Canaria looks like a small island, but the interior is one of the most dramatic mountain landscapes in the Atlantic. The centre is a collapsed volcanic caldera, split by deep ravines, with crags like Roque Nublo and Roque Bentayga sticking out of it. For the island's pre-Hispanic people, who arrived about two thousand years ago, these rocks were sacred, and the whole area is now a World Heritage cultural landscape. Risco Caído is a cave complex where the early islanders carved out shrines and granaries, one of which seems to be aligned with the sun at the equinox, when a beam of light moves across the painted walls.
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Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gr comes up 16 km in.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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32 km in you reach Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gr. Next is back through Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gr.
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back through Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gr, late in the day. Next is Las Palmas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Palmas write-up.
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Back at Las Palmas. That is the ride.
Las Palmas → Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gr is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gr → Las Palmas is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.