Moon Landing in Timanfaya

The day I landed on the moon!

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

That was me when I landed on the moon on April 4, 2017. Except the moon happened to be on some far-off island near Africa this time. And it also had a completely different name.

“Montanas del Fuego” it read. Translated as ‘The Fire Mountains’.

I was at the Timanfaya National Park, situated in Lanzarote, Canary Islands. (I soon realized it wasn’t the moon!)

The Canary Islands is a Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, consisting of seven main islands. Although the islands are an autonomous community under Spain, the nearest mainland from here is actually Africa.

I was traveling one of its seven islands, Lanzarote — mainly because of Timanfaya National Park and its moonlike landscapes.

The Timanfaya National Park is a protected area, surrounded by volcanoes and still covered with lava. The volcanic landscape of Timanfaya was…