Travelog for: Monsti

Holá Jochen,

today we visited a small hill with an eremitage on top.

We started at a place called monastery, where stations of the cross begin


The way up to the hill is like going to a little botanical garden with lots of exotic and endemic plants





I met a friendly chicken


The way is very hard at some parts


But the scenery there is wonderful



A view on Puerto de la Cruz


In the middle of the path we held a rest


I saw the little eremitage on top


Finally, we are on top




Look at the beautyful landscape of the valley of Orotava






On our way back we found some nice flowers growing the whole year





And finally a rainbow, look 



That´s it for today, love and see You soon

Yours Monsti

Holá Jochen,

today we vistited the old town of La Laguna

The complete name of the town officially is "San Christobal de La Laguna", but everybody here calls the city "Laguna"


Lots of very old houses I saw there, the inner city was built in the 16th and 17th century, when Laguna was the formerly capitol of Tenerife.

One of the oldest churches here, the cathedral of La Laguna


This is an interesting example of a typical canarian house with an inner patio



Here we held a rest before we went to the market halls


At the market halls I looked for something to eat or drink for our planned picknic tomorrow on sunday

See tomorrow, what the other TV´s had found for our picknic

See You soon and love You,
Yours Monsti

On Sunday we went to the sunny south and spend some lazy hours at the nice harbour of Güinmar.



In the afternoon we found a nice place and held, like the canary people on sunday often do, a picknic


Yesterday at the market I have chosen an asortment of yummy sweets







The round brown slice is Gofio , a typical canary specialty of the native Canarians, the Guanches



We had a very nice sunday picknic

Holá Jochen,

today we made a small trip down to the old town of
Puerto de la Cruz and to the Promenade.


We started at the old harbour



Here at the harbour we met an well known friend of good old störte



We went on and came to Plaza del Charco



Here we came to a very old church of Puerto, it is called Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia and was built in the 17th century.

The so called Plaza de la Iglesia is similar to a little park

In the middle of the place You find a spring with a swan


A good example for the typical canarian architecture, mainly the wooden balconies



Near the promenade, the sea is very rough today



From here You have a good sight of the swimming pools of Lago Martianez



Look, Bananas, in the middle of a Town


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Here ended our tour while we rested in a red and yellow Aloe



That´s all for today, love and see You soon, Yours Monsti

Holá Jochen,

today we visited one of the nicest urban parks on Tenerife:
Parque Garcia Sanabria


Here we are at the famous flower clock


Seven different alleys lead to the centre with the main spring inside.
Here You see one of the alleys with nice statues


Another view from another alley with palmtrees


One of the highlights in the park is the cactus area with lots of different cacti.

Juchuuuu



But the main attraction finally here is the sculpture of a sitting woman in the middle of the main spring



This was our excursion through the park.
Love and see You soon, Yours Monsti

Holá Jochen,

no, we are not in the Black Forest Mountains, even when the backround of the photo looks similar


In more than 1.000 metres about sea level we visited the trout farm of Aguamansa.


The weather was very very cold, not more than 8°C and rainy, so we didn´t stay very long there


So love You and see You soon, Yours
Monsti

Hello Jochen,

today we spent our day in the famous Loro Parque

We passed the entrance



and came to a forest of palmtrees


Planet Penguine


The Loro Show



The Aquarium





Deep Blue


The zone with free flying birds




The Dolphin Show


At the Orca Ocean


We had fun by watching the Otters


And finally Helmut was happy to share his chocolate-banana with us and told us about the advantages to be a member of the Loro Parque Fundacion


What a full day we had here



Love and see You soon,
Yours Monsti

Night Life at Puerto de la Cruz 



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Holá Jochen,

today we vistited the town La Orotava in the near of Puerto de la Cruz.

The old town is famous for its nice wooden balconies



Here we have the view from Orotava to Mount Teide



Unfortunately the Botanical Garden of Orotava was closed...


So we only had a small look from outside


But instead of we spent some nice time in a Terrace-Garden called "La Victoria"





At the end we had the chance to have a look inside a typical canarian patio


and saw some nice handcrafted cloth



Love and see You soon, Yours
Monsti

Holá Jochen,

today we vistited the town La Orotava in the near of Puerto de la Cruz.

The old town is famous for its nice wooden balconies



Here we have the view from Orotava to Mount Teide



Unfortunately the Botanical Garden of Orotava was closed...


So we only had a small look from outside


But instead of we spent some nice time in a Terrace-Garden called "La Victoria"





At the end we had the chance to have a look inside a typical canarian patio


and saw some nice handcrafted cloth



Love and see You soon, Yours
Monsti

Hello Jochen,

today we drove to the Cliffs of Los Gigantes



At the [url=Mirador Archipenque]https://plus.google.com/102907400597830545153/about?hl=de[/url] we found this table wich told uns about the possibility for watching smaller whales living between Tenerife and Gomera Island

...but today we didn´t see any whale...

That´s for today, love and see You soon
Yours
Monsti

Hello Dad,

today we saw another highlight of this nice island: We visited Mount Teide, the higest mountain of Spain with 3.718 m.



See the foot of the mountain at an altitude of 2.100 m


The landscape here in the so called "caldera" is awsome




Love and see You Soon
Yours
Monsti

Hello Dad,

today we wanted to stay at the northern coast for having a sun bath, but the weather was too bad. Instead of, we visited this place with the huge whale skeleton and drove back to Garachico.




And here You see the nice village of Garachico


Garachico was lost under the ashes of a volcano in the 18th century


This is the castle of Garachico

My friends and me sitting on an old canon


A view on the natural swimming pools Garachico is famous for




Here we find Jorge, a nice and friendly youngster pirate.



Similarities with störte are for purely accidental 

a final Holá from Tenerife: We drove to the nicest beach of the island, Playa las Teresitas.





Today is our last day and since now we didn´t test Helmuts boats he stored here the year before









This was our nice holiday on the island of Tenerife.
Love and see You soon
Yours Monsti