La Palma, Gran Canaria

[bluey1905]

Not sure if this is travel or science, so I'll try it here and see what happens.
I am looking to go to La Palma in early April, mainly to do some astronomy under the fantastic dark skies. Any recommendations as regards hotel would be greatly appreciated. I will be hiring a car, so location is not a problem, I can drive to the middle of nowhere if needs be

[LuS1fer]

I've just come back from Gran Canaria and found it pretty dull. While it has mountains, you can take hours to drive up into them. I drove 7 hours on one day and still only covered a small part. It's also hard actually getting off the roads as all the mountains are covered in hard scrubland. That said there is a nice mountain overlooking La Palma itself but I found it was alot of driving through tortuous roads. Somewhere in Mogan or El Cercado (?) would be useful as a gateway to the mountains. In short, of all the islands, I think it is the most inaccessible in terms of time spent driving.

All that said, I went to Tenerife last year and drove up through Mount Teide National Park late at night and it was pitch black and, overall, the road access is far better and much quicker.

[bluey1905]

Ok, thanks for that, maybe I should have rethink, and consider Tenerife.

[Legmaster]

La Palma is the place to go if you are interested in astronomy, there's lots of international observatories there, some you can visit:
http://www.iac.es/eno.php?op1=2&op2=420&op...