Day 8 Tenerife We joined a Cunard full day tour “Beauty of Mount Teide", we began by driving through the Esperanza Forest, stopping at Ortuna viewpoint for views over the north coast. The higher we climbed the more dramatic the landscape became, finally turning to lava with Mount Teide rising to 12,300 feet. Mount Teide has been dormant since 1909 and is in the centre of a crater over 29 miles in circumference. We stopped at a locally café where we had the best hot chocolate we have ever tasted, thick, sweet and very creamy. We continued through the National Park of Las Canadas to a view point at the base of Mt Tiede, the section of the park has been utilised for a number of movies, it looks like something between the wild west and
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