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MASPALOMAS DUNES GRAN CANARIA

NATURAL SETTINGS

CANARY ISLANDS Like Moses parting the Red Sea and how Ridley Scott must have felt when he shot that long-awaited moment in Exodus: Gods and Kings , when Christian Bale leads his people in flight from Egypt. In reality, this is Risco del Paso Beach , in Fuerteventura , one of those heavenly sandy beaches so common in the Canary Islands archipelago. The protagonists of this cinematic exodus also made good use of the kilometres-long natural beach of Cofete and the Barranco del Buen Paso ravine, in Jandía Nature Reserve , with its desert, mountainous horizon, used in the film to simulate the Sinai peninsula.

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