Gran Canaria: Roque Bentayga - A petrified storm - Cumbres de Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria: Roque Bentayga - A petrified storm - Cumbres de Gran Canaria, originally uploaded by zeitspuren.

Miguel de Unamuno called this landscape in the center of Gran Canary island "a tremendous upheaval of the entrails of the earth; it all seems like a petrified storm, but a storm of fire, of lava, rather than of water.". An eroded volcanic slot forms the unique silhouette of Roque Bentayga, a sacred site to the Guanche people of Gran Canaria.