There are five routes to Tiscamanita and I have taken all of them. The fastest involves heading due west from Puerto del Rosario and cutting a path through Casillas del Ángel before veering southward and on through Antigua. The road cuts a straight path across the flat and denuded coastal plain, making a crow"s flight to the mountains that rise in the near distance. Away from the arterial road that connects the northern fishing village turned resort town of Corralejo, down to Puerto del Rosario and then on south to Morre Jable, Fuerteventura takes on its true nature, a vast empty expanse of treeless land, farmed in places, decorated with low mountain ranges that define the landscape and give it its beauty. Pleased to leave the city behind me, I was drawn by those barren ranges, their mould
