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HOLIDAYS ON TENERIFE Want to take on holiday to the sun to go? Tenerife is an ideal beach destination and the Canary Islands, Tenerife is the largest and by many the most beautiful. Moreover, Tenerife has a unique climate, with year around 19-25 degrees. But Tenerife has much more to offer! For example, in the field of wellness. It is said that the village of Los Cristianos on Tenerife, by the low atmospheric pressure, one of the healthiest areas in the world. In addition, many hotels in Tenerife spa treatments with volcanic stones! A holiday in Tenerife also ideal for nature lovers and seekers of peace. Did you know that almost 48% of Tenerife to protected area has been declared? Tenerife is a beautiful island and it is really unfortunate during your vacation on the beach only to sit! Rent a car and haul it out to all toerende on the winding roads to discover Tenerife. The dark lava beaches, lush nature and not to forget the capital of Tenerife, Santa Cruz Tenerife travel to what are different and attractive. A walk to the top of the volcanic mountain Pico del Teide can not miss during your vacation. Surfers will enjoy surfing on the beach of El Medano - truly great golf! The north of Tenerife is Spanish and has a tropical vegetation. The atmosphere here is still authentic and very different than in the more tourist from south Tenerife where most hotels and resorts are located. The beautiful capital city Santa Cruz de Tenerife is located on the northeast side of Tenerife. From Santa Cruz, there are regular ferry connections to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It is a vibrant city with a beautiful harbor, long and busy shopping streets and some attractive museums. Certainly visit the beautiful baroque church Le Concepción in Santa Cruz! The harbor town of Los Christianos has become the tourist attraction of Tenerife. In recent years, many houses, apartments and hotels risen. The center of Los Cristianos is car-free and has many nice restaurants and cafes. Los Cristianos, the longest promenade in Europe! Most hotels, holiday homes and apartments are located on the long beach. Take a look at Los Cristianos Cultural Center. There are exhibitions of artists each year and is the Playa de las Americas festival of short films. If your entertainment and a vibrant nightlife are looking go to Playa de las Americas. This is the heart of Tenerife with hundreds of discos and bars, with the most modern hotels of the island. For many the most important holiday, Playa de las Americas has beautiful beaches, which consist mainly of lava sand. Just outside the city are 2 excellent golf courses. In the north is Playa de las Americas in Costa Adeje. There are many hotels, apartments and holiday homes. |
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SIGHTSEEING: (only a few examples) JARDINES DEL ATLANTICO In this very well-kept Finca (ranch), the pleasant walks. Originally it was a banana plantation fincha but over time turned into a kind of open on Tenerife. Actually, I have to say a collection of what is and was rich Tenerife. In the Bananera makes you know the plant fruits and livestock in Tenerife. On arrival at the fincha has all the taste for it immediately with a free house offered by the banana liqueur. Then start the tour accompanied by an English-speaking guide (question when EN guide who is present). In addition to the wealth of information on the fruit crop will also be video on Tenerife to see a very interesting presentation on the water gain and water, not to forget the answer to why bananas are really crooked. One can also taste fresh fruit as mango, banana, papaya, etc. .. Even lice are also! These parasites have had a major economic role in the island. How, you find this guide. There is also a small exhibition on ancient objects and souveniershop where at the end of the tour again treated to a honey liqueur. |
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LAS AGUILAS DEL TEIDE "Aguilas del Teide", roughly translated, "The eagles of the Teide" is a national park with dozens of animals and orbiting eagles. The park is relatively new. This park is definitely worth visiting. Several times a day gives you an eagle show. During the show there are different types of flying eagles, including the enormous Condor, above your head. The park is located in a Barranco, a gap. Further along is one penguins, crocodiles, hippos, birds and a lot of beautiful plants and flowers. In the vast arena where a pirate ship is the backdrop, you can use during a drink and enjoy the spectacle show. From the terrace, you have a beautiful view. Those who would like to run a ride on the meter long bobsleigh track located just off the cactus garden. The Jungle is crazy fun adventure. This is a series of suspension bridges, lookout towers and ropes which one can climb. The strange background noises are from a primitive Africans…. |
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LOS ABRIGOS In this fishing village, you can eat fresh fish and on Tuesday to the market. The area near the tiny port are a dozen fish restaurants. In these restaurants you can choose the fish themselves. The fish or shellfish are prepared and served with bread, salad, potatoes and Canary sauces. Especially several squid species (including the Chocos) and certain nephrops (including carabineros, increased blood type) are very nice to eat. And for the true fans: the best is in the head. Completely separate from the food section of Los Abrigos the road between the exit of the motorway and the village is the ideal place for spotters. This road is located under the aanvliegroute of the Reina Sofia airport. Friday is an especially busy day. You can also go from here to Golf Del Sur, with a very large golf course where you can play golf. |
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SURF DITORIAL El MEDANO It seems the strong on the English coast to coast wind 6. With favorable wind surfers can reach very high speeds or high jump from the sea in Kiten (surfing with parachute). El Medano is also regularly worldwide image during surf competitions. In the village of El Medano lava itself is a small beach where you can go swimming in the sea. From the port wall can line fishing. On the beach there are some terraces which offers Internet users at work can see. Here you can also eat barbecue and tapas. The Chocos (squid) with papas arrugadas. (wrinkled potatoes in 50% and 50% salt water is boiled) They may / should work with the peel and all prefer to be eaten with the known Canary sauce (salsa) mojo (pronounce as Mog-Ho). This is in red and green variation. Or you can choose Ensaladilla, a mixture of fresh vegetables and potatoes. Through the center and the port wall, at the northern beach where the Montaña Pelada is where you can walk on.
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CANDELARIA Candelaria is located towards the north, between the sea and the motorway. One can by shopping and walking on the square where the cathedral stands. However, the image of the Virgin Negro, the Black Virgin. Every year on August 15 is the big party in honor of the Virgin. Just before and after August 15 so walking hundreds fine doers along the highway to this pilgrimage. The celebration is also on the Spanish television reports. On the square in front of the cathedral is along the coastline, the bronze images of the ancient kings Guanches. Each image has its own story. Here are a few outdoor cafes where you can enjoy a drink and listen to the surf on the rocks that much sense. |
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MOUNTAIN VILLAGE MASCA Strange but true. Many tourists who visit Tenerife leave this beautiful little island money. Masca is also hidden in a pretty deep divide. After climbing through a Santiago del Teide, there is still 6 km. mountain route to wait. From Santiago makes a small climb to the ridge. It has on one side a beautiful view of the Teide and the other side of the bay of Masca and the neighboring island of La Gomera, after each turn you get to see new enchanting nature. During the descent there are several lookout posts where you can make pictures. This course is not risk free and requires some knowledge of, among brakes on the engine (to save the brakes), and curves. Note: increasing traffic and the largest vehicle always prevail. This is considering the idea around a car park in Santiago and the journey by bus to Masca only to process. Once in Masca should park in the roundabout. Then they go on foot because Masca is car Friday Close to the church drops an alley in the village. In the village are a few drinks and snack bars. Walk inside 'Chez Arlette, the terrace is probably the most beautiful in Europe. Palms and unforgettable views over the bay of Masca. Here you can taste the cake Masca. Who is walking freak calls can embark on a walk to village Masca Masca Bay, a fascinating divide. A trained switching is about 150 minutes on the descent. The bay can be a refreshing dip in the ocean to climb back with a height of 800 meters. From Las Americas and Los Gigantes, there are boat trips to the Bay of Masca. Often people from falling into the Masca bay there, by appointment, by boat to return to Los Gigantes. |
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LORO PARQUE The Loro Parque in Puerto De La Cruz, a zoo located on the sea. The offer: Dolphins, Seals and Parrots - Penguin, and the Orca show .(The largest collection of parrots in Europe) Furthermore, there is a lot of birds, mostly papagaaien, and find a fascinating aquarium. The park itself is nicely planted and in a separate greenhouse can be a very large number of beautiful orchids are looking. Who from the south by car is the best around 9 hours to leave. Then there is at 10.30 am at the Loro Parque. Who will want to see everything around 16h in the Loro Parque ever. From the south leave free buses, ask your travel. In the center of Puerto De La Cruz find Martiánez lago, a collection of swimming pools at the edge of the sea. Here we are sunbathing and swimming. There are substantiated cabins, toilets and restaurants for. The largest swimming pool, spray a giant fountain jet in the bath. Not only good for entry to swim, even fun to hear the sun. Who is not on the Lago Martiánez is slentert but off the promenade. Here are the stately hotels and outdoor cafes, shops and more public swimming places in the open sea. At the end of the promenade, where a restaurant is built into the rocks, one can walk to the old city, or to the old port. Here are just restaurants built in typical style. Obviously, there's more to see in Puerto De La Cruz. |
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SIAM PARQUE The largest water theme park in Europe Siam Park (Siam is the former name of the current Thailand) wants the public to discover the magic of the Far East. Visitors enter into a jungle and discover the wonderful world of fauna, flora, culture and architectural highlights of the Asian continent. The theme park has five world records, including a wave pool with waves of 3 feet. The theme park in the tourist area of Adeje in southern Tenerife, the visitor, in an area of 185,000 sq meters, the former kingdom of Siam, the current Thailand. Siam Park will count 5 world, that of park with the longest, slow river, with the most amount decay (up to 8 meters of the water channel), the largest water park with slides and diversity of the Thai is the largest settlement outside Asia, because it has 25 Thai buildings. Then there is the largest roof outside Thailand and the artificial wave, with a wave height of 3 meters, the largest in the world. "That is what surfers are never found in the sea. Moreover, there is a beach of white sand. The whole is a monument to Siam. According to the information on the Internet page of the park (http://www.siamparktenerife.com) are welcomed the visitors by sea lions and a floating market around the Tea House. "There is a 28 meter high attraction with the name" Kamikaze ", which the visitor the power of a tornado will be able to experience. The giant wave will be done in the Palacio de Las Olas "(" Palace of the Waves ") and the visitor can let them carry on the crystal clear waters of the river Sawasdee. The slow river, or 'Lazy River' will have a tropical climate with hot water, where visitors can drive while they are islands and waterfalls of various levels and a spectacular aquarium. Another attraction is the "Serpiente de la jungla '(' Long Oerwoud). The little ones can enjoy their own territory, the 'Ciudad perdida (Lost City) is built on several levels and which bridges are connected together. Here, the kids are really feeling adventurous. Also, there will be a spectacular laser volcano are. Turn chambers, which one must pass in an inflatable rubber boat and a dragon with a large, open mouth while the visitor as a lightning beam passes, "is faster and closer. Siam Park with a 'school surf (surf school), so that the visitors are "surfboard champions' can feel. Central is a high tower from which the most adventurous visitors through an integrated system of toboggans (slides) exotic fish. |
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'EL DRAGO' ICOD DE LOS VINOS The most famous tree of the Canary Islands, the Canary dragon tree (Dracaena draco) or dragon blood tree, which belongs to the family of the lilies and related to the yucca's. The latter name comes from the dark red resin of this rare tree. This Canary variant, several hundred years, perhaps thousands of years old can be, is also only in the Cape Verde Islands and Madeira before, and elsewhere for more than twenty million years extinct. The oldest dragon tree of Tenerife and the Canary Islands, El Drago, is about 700 years and is in the town of Icod de los Vinos. The tree is over 16 meters high, weighs about 140 tonnes, has a diameter of 20 meters and a circumference of 6 feet. In the life of the Guanches, the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands, took the dragon tree in the distant past, an important place. The main product was the 'dragon's blood', which among other drug use. To the top of the highest mountain in Tenerife, the Teide to achieve it by coniferous forest, located between approximately 2000 and 3000 meters altitude. This pine is habitat of a subspecies of the great spotted woodpecker, which only occurs on this island. The 45,000 hectare forest in 1987 was named Parque Natural de Corona Forestal. |
