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Published: October 6th 2005
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Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz was a big city surrounded by mountains. The trip to the Canary Islands was excellent. Our flight was to leave Granada at 7am for a short flight to Madrid, where we would have a brief 1 hour layover. as many things go in Spain, out flight out of Granada was late taking off, we landed in Madrid with only 20 min until out plane took off for the Islands. Here you get off your plane and then get onto a bus where then you drive around the runways for a while until you get to the terminal. so that took a few more minutes, by the time we got to the area where we should be able to get our flight, we were out of luck. even though the computers still said, LAST CALL, we pleaded with the Iberia Air people to let us on, but it wasn't happening.
So instead we took a flight to the SOUTH end of the Island (we were supposed to go to the north, our rental car was there). 3 hours later we finally get onto a plane bound for the canary's, except this time we sit at the gate not moving for an hour as the crew attempts to
balcony
In the smaller towns a LOT of the buildings had really cool wooden balcony's fix an electrical problem. they kept shutting down the entire plane and then turning everything back on, which lead to no cool air for a better portion of that hour, not to mention that a massive Russian was sitting next to me and was not only dominating the arm rest but was inching over into my seat. eventually we take off, 2.5 hours later we are on the Island of Tenerife. As I said we flew into the south airport, we needed to be at the north airport. Iberia said that they would put us on a bus for the north airport for free, they ended up giving us a voucher for a taxi. I think our taxi driver was 7 ft tall. he was confused as to why we were going from one airport to the other. we talked with him about the islands, he said he was born on the Island of La Gomera (we would be headed there later in the trip) and told us where to go etc.
We got to the north airport at a tune of 60 euro, got our rental car and hit the road. we drove to the big town on
Banana
Thats a lot of Bananas the north end of the island, Santa Cruz, found a cheap room and walked around.
the next morning we headed out and drove up this mountain ridge into a cloud, we were going around sharp hairpin corners, in a cloud up a mountain. it was so foggy we couldn't see anything which was a bummer because I bet the views would have been spectacular. we drove down into some towns and made our way to the village that we would be staying in for the night. it was this smalll smalllllll town. the Pension (think basic basic hotel with bathrooms down he hall, but still pleasant) was owned by a Swiss woman in this neat old house, all 4 of us stayed in the same room that night, and it ended out being only 10 euro per person which was a great deal for a big room with 4 beds. we set out looking for a restaurant but everything was mysteriously closed. we finally found a place that was open and sat outside facing a nice park and town square.
Next morning was the big day, we were going to go up to the top of Spain's tallest
Hike
This is from the hike on La Gomera, We descended into this valley for a few hours down a very rough and uneven staircase like surface. I couldnt walk proper for the next week! mountain, Teide, which is also the third largest volcano on earth. we decided not to hike up which would have taken 4 hours from the trail head, and opted to go on a short hike in the morning around some cool rock formations and then take the Cable car/tram thing up to the top. the cable car cuts the trip down to a brief 8 min. the short hike was nice, lots of rocks that reminded of either the big island of Hawaii or Southwest USA. It wasnt entirely sunny, there were some patches of blue, basically everything above us was in the clouds, including the summit of Teide. we drove to the cable car and found that it was CLOSED because of fog. this was very disappointing. even though we probably wouldn't have been able to see anything from the top, being able to go TO the top would have been something in its self. we milled about with a bunch of German tourists staring at the CLOSED sign and then decided to go have lunch.
we drove down the road and found this cool area with sandy ground but it had huge rocks coming out of the sand to sit and have lunch.. while we are eating lunch it starts to POUR rain, we have to run back to th
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