Tenerife, Spain - 23rd January 2013
By: Strunki
But no worry, Lotte and me recreated very fast when we saw the very first views of tenerife with spains highest mountain, El Pico del Teide.
And we had the first impressions from the south of this canary island
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Posted Jan 23, 2013, 10:57 pm Last edited Jan 25, 2013, 6:17 pm by Strunki
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Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain - 23rd January 2013
By: Strunki
Luckily we arrived our hotel, here is a first view from the sea-side balcony on the town
This was the first day and many nice will follow
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Posted Jan 23, 2013, 11:03 pm
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Orotava Botanical Garden, Spain - 24th January 2013
By: Strunki
Today we went to my first visit of a Botanical Garden. Lotte wanted to see how banana plant grow and I promised myself finding an outdoor growing plumeria with blooming flowers. And, of course, we wanted to see other plants they nurse there.
The first famous canarian plant is the drago, followed by bananas, strelitzias and other colourful and beautyful flowers.
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Posted Jan 24, 2013, 11:39 pm
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Orotava Botanical Garden, Spain - 24th January 2013
By: Strunki
We saw lots of wonderful plants growing there.
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Posted Jan 24, 2013, 11:43 pm
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Orotava Terrace Garden, Spain - 25th January 2013
By: Strunki
The next highlight in Orotava was the terrace garden next to th botanical garden. We saw cascades and the view to the sea is more than beautiful from there.
Lotte felt like a spanish senorita, she loved the setting and dreamed of living in a spanish palace
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Posted Jan 24, 2013, 11:54 pm
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Parque Nacional del Teide, Spain - 25th January 2013
By: Strunki
Today we visited the National Park oft Spains highest Mountain, th Pico del Teide. After the breakfast Lotte and me saw, that the view from Puerto de la Cruz up to it was free without any clouds.
But the higher we drove, the more clouds came. In an altidude of about 1.000 m we were above the clouds an the sun was shining very well. Only the temperature of ca. 8°C reminded us, that wer are in an very high altitude.
Oops, I forgot to mention the sheep we met :-)
And Lotte found some "devices" of her "collegues"...there must be a lot of rabbits, but they were to shy, unfortunately, we did not meet any of them...
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Posted Jan 25, 2013, 7:48 pm Last edited Jan 25, 2013, 7:54 pm by Strunki
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Corona Forestal Tenerife, Spain - 25th January 2013
By: Strunki
When we saw enough of the Teide, we went backwards and took the way to La Esperanza.
On the way down we passed a very interesting geological place called "the Cake", because you can see different rock layers in various colours. Lotte was so glad to see this place that she gave me a very big kiss
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Posted Jan 25, 2013, 8:23 pm Last edited Jan 25, 2013, 8:25 pm by Strunki
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El Sauzal, Tenerife, Spain - 25th January 2013
By: Strunki
At a litte mirador in El Sauzal we found my first outside living franginani, but unfortenatuly it did not have any flowers at all
I was a little bit dissapointed but Lotte comforted me in my grief and showed me wonderful orange an yellow blossoms of a plant calles "black susan"
At the end we sat under a huge blueweed and my grief went away: Next day, next chance to find a blooming plumeria
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Posted Jan 25, 2013, 8:38 pm
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Los Silos, Tenerife, Spain - 26th January 2013
By: Strunki
Tody we had our first day "on the beach", because it was warm and sunny enough to take a sunbath Lotte and me liked chilling in the sun, so we took only two pictures there...
The place was sooo lovely and lonely enough to take all our clothes out...
Before we arrived we visited the skeleton of a whale that stranded there a few years ago. A very huge whale, wooow
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Posted Jan 26, 2013, 10:40 pm Last edited Jan 31, 2013, 9:08 pm by Strunki
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Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain - 26th January 2013
By: Strunki
At this saturday I had a very special surprise for Charlotte: I noticed a few days ago that she always looked at the jewellery shops...
And because I love her so much, I decided to give her a very special present...and we are engaged since today
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Posted Jan 26, 2013, 10:53 pm
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Mirador Humboldt, Tenerife, Spain - 27th January 2013
By: Strunki
Yesterday I was not able to refresh my tl, because we were too tired after coming back into the hotel.
So we started yesterday at Mirador Humboldt, named by the famous german scientist who visited Tenerife before he went to south america exploring the orinoco. The legend says, that at this point he discovered the different steps of growing zones and the legend tells as well, that he felt in his knees when he reached this point and saw the magnificent view of the orotava valley...
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Posted Jan 28, 2013, 8:18 pm
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Las Teresitas, Tenerife, Spain - 27th January 2013
By: Strunki
After our visit at the mirador, we went on to our first "real beach" with white sand at Las Teresitas. There I was able to surf a little bit. Lotte did not want to come near to the water, hihi, she´s a little bit water-shy ...
After my surfing tour I was a little bit wet but very happy and when the sun disappeared, we went back to the hotel.
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Posted Jan 28, 2013, 8:32 pm
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El Monasterio, Los Realejos, TF, Spain - 28th January 2013
By: Strunki
Yesterday we went to a place called "El Monasterio" where we drank Coffee and climbed in an fig tree. A few of the figs were ready to take and they were very sweet
Before we walked on the hill, an old volcano crater, where a small ermita was built.
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Posted Jan 29, 2013, 10:19 pm Last edited Jan 30, 2013, 9:00 pm by Strunki
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Punta del Hidalgo, Tenerife , Spain - 29th January 2013
By: Strunki
Today we drove to the North-Eastern Point of Tenerife, Punta del Hidalgo.
There we went to the coast, the mountains of Anaga behind us. It was very very sunny so we decided to spend the day between the stones and took a sunbath.
In the afternoon we had our Coffee at the lovely Café Melita at Bajamar, whre you can have the best Tarta de Manzana (Apple Pie) of the whole Canaries
In the Evening Lotte moaned, because she has a sunburn
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Posted Jan 29, 2013, 10:35 pm
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Mirador El Lance, Tenerife, Spain - 30th January 2013
By: Strunki
Today we made a large tour to the northwestern part of tenerife.
We started first at mirador El Lance, where we saw the valey of orotava from the western side. Lotte was more interested in the bronce statue...
After passing the mirador we made a hike through some banana plantations where Lotte found her absolute dream finca Unfortenatuly I did not have enough money with me to buy it...but near the path we found lovely blossoms....
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Posted Jan 30, 2013, 9:55 pm
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