Next Friday, June 27 at 7:00 p.m., the Camel Interpretation Center of Uga (Yaiza, Lanzarote) will host an emotional tribute to three people from Yaiza whose stories are linked to the Timanfaya landscape: to the fig trees that grow in the socos of Tremesana and that constitute the habitat of various birds, to the salt that is harvested in Janubio, where a natural port was formerly located that was destroyed by the eruption, and to the camel, an extraordinary animal whose resistance was key to configuring the cultivation in the sands of picón and the only effective means to travel through Timanfaya.
On Saturday, June 28, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., the Uga square will host a diverse program of activities to celebrate the culture linked to the volcano. The agricultural and craft market will be open from 10:00 a.m. and throughout the day there will be stalls and live music performances. In addition, on Sunday, June 29, the traditional market will reopen in the Uga square.
Environmental education aimed at people of all ages will play a leading role on Saturday. At 12:30, on the main stage of the square, a contest based on the popular Pasapalabra rosette will be organized.
In the afternoon, at the environmental education stand, there will be three games that will combine entertainment with the dissemination of the natural and cultural values of the Timanfaya National Park: at 3:00 p.m. an activity will begin in which it will be essential to demonstrate skill with mime, at 4:00 p.m. the "chest of senses" will be opened and at 5:00 p.m. we will test our memory with the classic Memory game, with cards specially designed to better understand the heritage of Timanfaya.
All the activities that will take place both on Friday, June 27 and Saturday, June 28 in the Tribute to Yaiza will be free of charge.
Ancestral link
Timanfaya cannot be understood without this southern municipality and the identity of this population is rooted in Timanfaya: almost 14% of the surface of Yaiza is within the Lanzarote national park.
It should be remembered that the data written by the parish priest Lorenzo Curbelo, who officiated in the municipality during the year 1730, were key for the scientific community to advance in their research to find the origin and course of the eruption.
The Tremesana interpreted route also begins from Yaiza, one of those that the national park offers to learn about the ecosystem and culture of this unique geological landscape in the world.
These two days of Tribute to Yaiza, organized by the Timanfaya National Park through the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Energy of the Government of the Canary Islands, have the collaboration of the Yaiza City Council.
