La Gomera is the ultimate get-away-from-it-all island: easy-going, unspoilt, friendly, isolated from the hustle and bustle of modern living, and so laid back it’s virtually supine - even the volcanoes have been dormant for millions of years. The walks, however, are a bit more energetic. For the new 4th edition of Walk! La Gomera Charles Davis has teamed up with Jan Kostura. Jan brings his wide experience and passion for the Canaries, checking, re-walking and revising existing routes, and adding a couple of his own adventures, including a new Top Three Gomeran walk. Two routes have been dropped as having become too dangerous, but the good news is that many of the more harum-scarum walks have been improved through path clearing and the addition of railings to the vertiginous stretches. Other good news is that the devastating forest fires of 2012 have proved not nearly as damaging as we feared, leaving most of our itineraries unscathed. In short, there is every reason to take off and explore La Gomera, or to return with this new edition to revive acquaintances and make some new discoveries at the same time. All the trails have been surveyed and mapped using GPS satellite navigation. The authors and their co-walkers have walked all these routes, ensuring accuracy and up to date information for hikers. Clear descriptions guide the walker both to the starting point and throughout the routes, with gradings, distances, timings and altitudes all symbolized, as are vertigo alerts and refreshment possibilities on or at ends of the routes. There are 34 detailed walking adventures with routes ranging from a couple of 90 minute 4 kilometre walks, up to challenging trails taking over 6 hours, covering 20 kilometres including ascents & descents of 1060 metres. Each route includes its own map sections with the route and waypoints clearly marked. Map sections are developed from the La Gomera Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map, the most up to date and toughest map of the island. GPS waypoint files for all the 34 routes are available in three formats as a free zip file download from the Discovery Walking Guides website.

 

34 main walking routes with summary of the route, fully detailed walk description including frequent timings, compass directions, GPS Waypoints; all in Charles inimitable inspirational style.

 

Short route options and stroll options of the main walking routes.

Full colour map sections for each route, taken from the new Tour & Trail Map and placed alongside the walk description; plus colour photographs.

Regional Walks Locator Maps for navigation in the North, West, South and East, plus island map.

GPS Waypoint available as free download from our GPX Downloads page.

Accommodation information ranging from luxury hotels down to more modest hostals.

Bus Timetables, Ferry Information and general travel information.

Interesting background information, particularly culinary.

Concise walking advice on equipment and safety.

Web references for more information.

Comprehensive index.

Languages: Spanish, Deutsch, English

 

• Hiker and guide map

• Scale: 1: 25,000

• Equidistance: 10 m

• Master curves: 50 m

• Automatic shading

• Uses of land represented at 3 levels

• UTM grid with 1 km divisions

• Compatible GPS

• Marked itineraries

• Guide with excursions and data of interest

Quite simply La Gomera and El Hierro Tour & Trail Super-Durable Maps are the most detailed, accurate, toughest, easy to read, large scale maps of La Gomera and El Hierro that you can buy. Our map sheet is 840mm by 680mm. On the cover side you get the latest 35k scale 8th edition La Gomera Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map by David Brawn.

 

On the reverse side is our 35k scale 1st edition El Hierro Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map by Jan Kostura. Both maps are produced to our 'Tour & Trail' level of detail ranging from major roads to secondary roads to minor roads to streets and camino rural narrow country roads, plus dirt roads and walking trails. Walking trails are specially highlighted, GR (Gran Recorido trails in green) and Walk La Gomera (in red), making them easier to identify on the maps and easier to find on the ground.

 

Altitude background colouring is designed to clearly show the altitude range when traveling across each island by car or on foot. 100 metre and 50 metre contours, 100m and 20m on El Hierro, are clearly shown on the map along with a large number of individual height points and all of the official 'Trig' points. Tour & Trail attention to detail is legendary as is our useful symbol range including miradors, picnic areas, petrol stations, bar/restaurants and parking areas where you can pull off the road safely.You will easily identify springs, caves, sports grounds, cemeterys, churchs, chapels, lighthouses, towers and forts, camping areas, wind turbines, hotels and those all important information offices.

 

For adventurers on foot Tour & Trail Maps are researched and designed by hikers for use by hikers. Our comprehensive gps ground surveys produce the best road mapping available but the value of this on the ground research becomes even more important when you leave the tarmac. Digital editions of these maps are available for the Viewranger app, plus Custom Map versions for Garmin mapping gps units are available as a digital zip file download from Discovery Walking Guides.

 

These Super-Durable Maps are printed using UV cured inks printed onto a 100 micron plastic substrate. This produces a Super-Durable map sheet that feels like silk but will stand up to the roughest treatment of outdoor adventuring and yet fold up like new at the end of your adventure. DWG's special concertina map fold means your map is easy to unfold, and easy to fold back to its folded pocket size.

 

Erholung und Ruhe in grandioser Natur, das verspricht eine Reise nach La Gomera. Die zweitkleinste und zugleich wildeste Insel des Kanarischen Archipels ist kreisrund und ein UNESCO-Biosphärenreservat: Der immergrüne Lorbeerwald in der Inselmitte wirkt wie ein Zauberreich, die sonnenverglühten Schluchten im Süden erscheinen als Halbwüste. Doch nicht nur die landschaftlichen Kontraste locken: Hier kann man an Lavastränden baden, auf bestens markierten Wegen wandern oder es sich einfach gut gehen lassen - der lässig-gemütliche Alltag der Gomeros wirkt ansteckend!

 

Dieser umfangreiche Reiseführer beschreibt alle interessanten Orte der Insel: den bergigen Osten, den sonnigen Süden, den dramatischen Westen, den grünenNorden und mittendrin den Nationalpark Garajonay. Er nimmt die Leser mit zu faszinierenden Felsfestungen und Palmenhainen, subtropischen Tälern und leuchtendenHängen. Ganze 20 Wandertouren führen durch dschungelhaften Lorbeerwald mit uralten, knorrigen Bäumen am Fuße des höchsten Berges der Insel, dem 1487 Meter hohen Garajonay, zu abgelegenen Bergdörfern und einsamen Canyons. Wen es unter Leute zieht, stürzt sich in den beschwingt-lockeren Trubel der Orte Valle Gran Rey, Playa Santiago und San Sebastián.

 

Jedes Kapitel beginnt mit einer Doppelseite, auf der die Inhalte mit einer Übersichtskarte der Region, Highlights und Seitenverweisen vorgestellt werden. Natürlich enthält der Reiseführer die bewährten und praktischen Tipps zu Reisefragen von A-Z. Im erweiterten Vorspann finden sich Übersichtsseiten mit Beschreibungen aller Regionen, eine Jahresübersicht zu Festen und Veranstaltungen, Routenvorschläge und persönliche Top-Tipps der Autorin. Viele spezielle Infos, beispielsweise zur Anreise und zu den vielfältigen Möglichkeiten an Aktivitäten, sind hilfreiche Planungshelfer. Ausführliche Exkurse zu Geschichte, Land und Leuten zeichnen diesen aktuellen Reiseführer ebenso aus wie eine kleine Sprachhilfe Spanisch.