28.09 N, 17.11 W — A 120-kilometre trail circuits the smallest inhabited island in the western Canaries. Six towns. No airport. One road in, one road out.

La Gomera is the kind of place cartographers forget and hikers remember. The GR-132 traces its entire coastline — a continuous loop connecting the six municipal capitals through ravines cut so deep the villages at their mouths developed in near-isolation for centuries.