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Lanzarote Salt Pans behind the Black Beach |
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The old Salt Pans in the Area of Janubio and the
unique wild Black Beach "Playa Janubio"
 The old historical salt pans nowadays are only partially used to extract salt from sea water. In earlier days much more salt was produced for fishing and for preservation of fresh fish food. You can see the many small pans quite clearly where the sea water was left to evaporate, leaving the salt behind. The salt was used to preserve the catch when fisher boats spent weeks fishing without refrigeration. Some rests of the old buildings as an old wind mill are visible and today they are silent reminders of former days when salt was an important trading product on the islands. When you visit the salinas you may see some fields with white heaps of salt - fresh salt from the ocean - before it will be packed for selling. It is used to be delivered to the restaurants for cooking fish in salt cover.
The historical salt pans to extract sea salt for fishing and preservation.
More and more often the salt as a natural product is used instead of chlorine to be put in the water of pools. There are also plans to recover the salinas and to open it officially for sightseeing tours. Then there will be a building with informations, shop to buy the salt in small packages and may be there also will be installed a small restaurant or coffee bar to have a break. We are anxious to see what the government will realize in the near future...
 View to the bay with its fileds and pans to produce sea salt.
Like a patchwork carpet the salt pans are glittering in the sun.
The unique black beach "Playa Janubio" with fine black lava sand
On the other side of the bay, beyond the salt pans, there is a car park, from which one can walk comfortable along the natural beach of black lava sand and admire the waves. Great rollers crash onto the beach and one breathes crystal clear sea air. The white sea foam is prickling on the feet and it is healthy to walk along the water front barefooted along th salty black beach. Following the road from the car park in direction to "El Golfo" this road leads through fields of broken lava rocks passing the sightseeing location "Los Heriverdos" towards the fishermens village El Golfo. The village of El Golfo is best known for its restaurants direct at the seaside which provide freshly caught fish and sea food from Lanzarote. And: it is a sensation to watch one of the spectacular sunsets from the restautans terraces while enjoying dinner... A wonderful excursion with impressive experiences of nature!
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