<br /><br />What an Earthcache this was.<br />Involved a camel ride, a volcano walk, geothermic experiments at GZ and lunch cooked by the heat from underground lava !!<br />We were on a visit to Timanfaya National Park Lanzarote, and noted that there was an earthcache we could grab whilst we were there.<br />We expected a specific feature of a mountain or something similar as other earthcaches have been so far.<br />When we got to GZ (only accessible in a supervised group)we found park rangers conducting geothermic experiments, handing us hot rocks to hold which had been warmed by the volcano,dug from just a few inches below the surface (so hot we dropped them straight away). A dried bush was immediately ignited just by touching it to the wall of a hole in the ground where the heat was escaping, which was amazing to watch and shows the true power of nature at its core. we moved on (but still at GZ) to find another ranger who emptied a bucket of water into a hole, only for it to erupt as a steaming boiling geyser 15 feet high less than a few seconds later.<br />There is a restaurant next to GZ called El Diablo for obvious reasons, where they actually cook the food they serve using the heat from the volcano it is built on.<br />Pretty cool cache all round, and earned a favorite from me.<br />What an excellent earthcache to find and on earthcache day too!!
