In front of the
El Diablo restaurant and Timanfaya gift shop, we were having a 10 minute break, and about to geta science lesson
This red earth is more like fine gravel, and the feller is taking a little from an inch or two below the surface...
He poured a few 'grains' into everyone's hand, and it was so hot you couldn't hold onto it, but had to drop it, or pass it from hand to hand.
The youngster got some in the end!
I put mine in the pocket of my vest, and forgot about it
Here it is with a couple of small pebbles, and a shell, I left in my shorts pocket on the beach
In the second trick, a different feller poured some cold water into one of the pipes that went into the ground. It bubbled up immediately, and then on a count of three, shot into the air, as steam, cooling again before it hit the ground
And for my next trick...Feller number 3 forked some straw into one of the fissures about six feet from the surface, and it quickly burst into flames!
Not somewhere you'd want to trip in the dark!
The situation of the El Diablo restaurant is incredible, and it would have been a perfect place for lunch, but there were other plans, so there was just time for a few folks to spend a penny. There wasn't even time to visit the gift shop, but I did manage to get a couple of hasty snaps inside the restaurant, and of their unique cooking technique, using the heat from beneath the earth...
We boarded the bus again, and were off to continue our tour of Timanfaya
Edit - Very sorry folks, this should have been posted in the Guardians thread!
Thanks for keeping the Boat of Chance afloat my friend 
