As you may remember, this trip started with my search for a Canary. Well, on my very last day, I found one. Well, sort of. Maybe. Probably not, but I have made an executive decision and have decided that this bird found in the wonderful park by my hotel in Santa Cruz de Tenerife …
This is the huge volcano and national park that dominates the entire island. The peak is over 12,000′ and can be seen from nearly everywhere on Tenerife. In the Pacific NW we have of course many volcanos, some technically larger, but none with such an expanse of barren lava flows and stark empty landscape. …
Just some shots as I travelled around the island. If I think there is an interesting story, it will be in the captions. I loved watching this unfold. I was in the same situation a few days ago with a big truck on Gran Canaria. The car on the right has no choice but to back …
By far the largest of the Canary islands. Home to Pico de Tiede, the largest mountain in Spain, and actually the 3rd largest mountain on earth. (Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea are the other 2 that are larger.) And, as those of you about my age might remember, home to what is still the …
Now that we have seen it from the rim, it is time to go into it for those views. There are two access roads, one easy (but requiring a reservation) one long an arduous. As I had two days to do this, I was able to do both.
On the previous post, I left us all at the crater rim looking down into it. Now we will work our way back into town for the end of a great day.
Yes, you can see all of this in one easy day on La Palma. Actually a half day. Too much to put into this one blog. We are going to visit a pristine village, see bananas up close, the rain forest of Los Tilos, dragon trees and the summit of Roque de los Muchachos. …
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La Palma, the beautiful Island, truly is just that. It measures only about 16 miles by 35 miles, yet reaches 8,000′ in elevation with many other peaks nearly a mile high. By some official mathematical computation (L x W x H) it is considered the most mountainous island in the world. (Hey, I am just …
This relatively small island is heavily populated with over 800,000 residents and who knows how many tourists crammed onto it. The cramming is due to the fact that it is about 95% steep mountains so the flat land that exists is quite well used for sure! Day trips into the rugged interior are quite …
Greetings from Gran Canaria, one of seven major islands in the Canary Island archipelago. The Canaries are politically a part of Spain and seem very European, but are just off the coast of Africa. Western Sahara is really the closest other country and is only 90 miles away. This all makes for a scenic …