Trail in Meriga

The municipality of Agulo is divided in a lower area where you can find the neighborhood of Lepe and the upper area with places such as La Palmita, Merica or Cruz de Tierno. It is a much recommended route due to its simplicity and its magnificent natural setting, located inside the Garajonay Park; it is the route of the area of Meriga.

It is a 40 minute walk where you can submerge in the forests of laurisilva, with a mantle of red leaves on the ground and where you will find a wide variety of local vegetation. It is really a nice walk where you can enjoy the streams and lagoons, plants and fruit trees, where the inhabitants of the forest area come to eat; it feels like a place out of a fairy tale.

It is a short path, less than an hour, but it concentrates all the magic of La Gomera and Garajonay, especially the laurisilva forests with its leaves scattered on the ground that form a multicolor carpet of reds and browns, which makes you think of autumn in beech woods.

The path is circular and it takes you through streams until a dam that you have to surround, and there is a great variety of plants and fruit trees where the inhabitants of the forest come to feed. It feels like a fairy tale, a magical place, where you can encounter gnomes and mushroom houses.

It is not a common