On this tour I suggest to you visiting  the volcano Bamdama, the market in San Mateo, lifting on Roque Nublo and a picnic. A group meeting on a vessel or to the company's office address in 9.00 o'clock in the morning. Walking into the Bandama caldera is like going back millions of years in time to an epoch of colossal underground explosions that produced this circular caldera a kilometre across. Just twenty minutes drive fr om central Las Palmas, Bandama is an impressive natural monument with a concave floor of grey volcanic ash covered in copses of native trees and surrounded by the vertical caldera walls. Adjacent to the caldera is the 575 metre volcanic cinder cone of Pico de Bandama. It’s the islands most recent cone and has the best view of the caldera from its lookout point right at the top. To walk into the caldera use the network of paths that take you 170 metres to the caldera floor. As you descend look out for the cliff caves used by the island’s aboriginal inhabitants to store grain, and find the old grape press and old houses that are the vestiges of the calderas hundreds of years of human habitation. Any walk through the historic quarter of San Mateo must include a visit to the Parish Church of La Vega de San Mateo, located in Calle Principal (Main Street), wh ere we find a two-nave building (the one of the left dates from 1800 and the one on the right from 1895). The upper middle part is crowned by a bell tower designed by Jose Lujan Perez. The church bell, added four years after it was made, was sent from Cuba by Canary Island emigrants from the area. This church shows a predominantly eclectic style with Neo-Classical influences. Roque Nublo guards the centre of Gran Canaria but is surprisingly approachable for an icon: you can walk right up to it and just sit down. With a few ropes and a lot of courage, you can even climb it. The name, which translates as Cloud Rock, comes from Roque Nublo's habit of disappearing into the clouds and mist that often envelop the top of Gran Canaria. If you visit on a cloudy day it's always worth waiting for a while as the rock often pops out of the clouds for a few seconds. Visiting Roque Nublo is never the same twice. Some days you're surrounded by icy mist all the way up and can't see the rock until you can touch it. Others there isn't a cloud in the sky and the walk up is baking hot. Some days you get a bit of both: take a layer, even in summer. Look or listen out for the ravens as a couple of the  last few pairs hang out on the cliffs by Roque Nublo. Returning of group to the vessel or to the office address at 19.00 o'clock.