{"id":2572,"date":"2017-03-12T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T20:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:33:05","slug":"lanzarote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"Lanzarote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"color:#515c60\" class=\"has-text-color\">Looking for a place to set free your mind? <br \/>Book yourself a ticket and fly to the moon.  You won&#8217;t see earth from there but you will be spoiled by plenty of other stunning views.<br \/>And that is thanks to C\u00e9sar Manrique.  He loved his island and fought to preserve it for the future.<br \/>I&#8217;m glad he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#515c60\" class=\"has-text-color\">Although the island is not that big it presents you with endless views.<br \/>Beaches, lava fields, hills and old volcanos&#8230; but stay away from Timanfaya park.  It&#8217;s a tourist trap.<br \/>For those who like to cycle, it&#8217;s a cycling paradise.  Given the numerous cycling companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6661.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2307\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6661.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/?attachment_id=2307\" class=\"wp-image-2307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6661.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6661-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6661-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6661-492x328.jpg 492w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6661-984x656.jpg 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src=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6534-1920x1276.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2236\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6534.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/?attachment_id=2236\" class=\"wp-image-2236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6534.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6534-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6534-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6534-494x328.jpg 494w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6534-987x656.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6657.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2304\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6657.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/?attachment_id=2304\" class=\"wp-image-2304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6657.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6657-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6657-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6657-492x328.jpg 492w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6657-984x656.jpg 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6670.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2313\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6670.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/?attachment_id=2313\" class=\"wp-image-2313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6670.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6670-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6670-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6670-492x328.jpg 492w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6670-984x656.jpg 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#515c60\" class=\"has-text-color\">We stayed at <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lag-o-mar.com\/apartments\/\" target=\"_blank\">LagOmar<\/a>, also known as Omar Sharifs house.<br \/>They have two apartments for rent, located central island which makes it a perfect base camp to explore the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#515c60\" class=\"has-text-color\">Are you a cacti lover?  Great! Buy a ticket for &#8216;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cactlanzarote.com\/en\/cact\/jardin-de-cactus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jardin de Cactus<\/a>&#8216;  They show an impressive 4500 cacti in their lovely garden. The idea came from Manrique himself.  Who else ;-)<br \/>As an architect he got probably inspired by the geometrical spirals of certain cactuses.  Nice repetitive structured chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6968.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6968.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6968-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6968-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6968-492x328.jpg 492w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_6968-984x656.jpg 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption>Jardin de cactus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li 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Book yourself a ticket and fly to the moon. You won&#8217;t see earth from there but you will be spoiled by plenty of other stunning views.And that is thanks to C\u00e9sar Manrique. He loved his island and fought to preserve it &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/?p=2572\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,45],"tags":[110,79],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","category-travel","tag-lanzarote","tag-spain","post--featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6104,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/6104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}