Life must have been particularly hard on Lanzarote before mass tourism started. The main industry was agriculture and this in a land with no trees, no grass and only 100mm of rain a year onto a black , gravelly, volcanic "soil". Unusually for us, we decided to visit the agricultural museum in the centre of the island. This is the surrounding terrain.
In this picture you can see the three-quarter circles of rocks which are placed around each grape-vine, each planted in a depression in the ground. We tried some local wine and it was quite good. The big rectangle is a walled concreted area used to capture rainwater which is then stored underground.
This is some of the farm buildings
And these two, shots of the fields....
Camels were the main form of transport and beasts of burden. And they had chicken and goats but no cows.
A tethering point
And two examples of copies of Guanche figures.
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