The poisonous, tennis ball green colour of the lagoon at El Golfo was what won it the coveted role as the backdrop for the film ‘One Million Years B.C.’ staring an animal skin bikini clad Raquel Welch. It got that way because it’s the breeding ground for an almost luminous algae, which flourish in the sea water that has been cut off from the sea in this lagoon for so long by the crazy volcanic activity Lanzarote suffers. The lagoon’s surrounds are just as dramatic and prehistoric world-y – towering rocky cliffs and a jutting rocky finger of land that the still nearby ocean crashes against. Even some of the surrounding rocks are tinged green – but they’re that way because of their mineral content rather than more algae.

There are restaurants and visitors facilities in the nearby town. It has the same name.

Written by  World Reviewer Staff.

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