Anaga Mountains and a ride along the coast - Tenerife, the diverse island - 4
Canada Blanca hike, drive to Costa Adeje and the lost place Sanatorio de Abona
Arenas Negras hike and stops at the Piedra de la Rosa and the observatory
Sunrise in the Anaga Mountains and a missed sunset at Playa de Benijo
Cruz del Carmen and the coastal hiking trail to Casa Hamilton
Hiking at Mirador de Samara and another visit to the south coast
Long time exposures at the sea and another drive through Teide NP
Wed., 8th Sept. - Anaga Mountains and a ride along the coast
Freya’s back and knees are still not ok. But we think that an easy walk in the Anaga Mountains should be possible.
After breakfast, we leave the hotel and drive towards Cruz del Carmen. After a while, I wonder how the car is able to show me the speed limit. Does this car have a built-in navigation system? Let's have a look. O.k. here we can change the language. Great. And here we can turn on the navigation system - bingo! Problem solved.
But the next one is coming soon. Even we are not very late, the parking at Cruz del Carmen is completely full and new cars are arriving all the time. We drive a little further and are lucky to find a parking lot near Camino viejo al Pico del Inglés. This is a small street with high walls on both sides. We take a few photos and walk a bit along the road, but there are no trails you can walk. O.k. lesson learned: If we want to see this place, we have to start much earlier.
As an alternative, we drive to some places on the northwest coast. We start with Bajamar. With the help of the newly discovered navigation system, we drive down to the coast on back roads. By the way, this device wants to send us through narrow, steep roads just as much as our Garmin.
Bajamar is a small town where the sea rolls in huge waves. Today they are not as strong as I have seen in some pictures. But still, some people are enforcing the wave-breakers, which are already pretty massive. Unfortunately, that means the little lighthouse is blocked.
Next, we want to go all the way south to the villages of Garachico and Los Silos. The drive is kind of annoying. Lots of traffic, mostly locals, and stop and go very often. It seems that it is rush hour here at noon. Garachico is completely crowded, this time by tourists. No chance to find a parking space. Since the places I wrote down for a visit are not really must-sees now, we continue to Los Silos.
In Los Silo there is a festival in the city center and they have closed quite a few streets. We drive around a bit and since we are hungry, we park the car and look for a place to eat. Everything seems to be closed and not only because of the festival. I check TripAdvisor and all the restaurants nearby don't open until the evening. But in the next village, there is a cafe.
So, back to the car and to Buenavista del Norte. The food is not really worth mentioning, but cheap and good.
We drive back to the place where we parked before and walk a bit through the streets of Los Silos. A nice little town, some tourists, but mostly locals.
But now we want to get to the main reason we are here: The whale skeleton. The whale washed ashore in 2005 and is 17 meters long. It was mounted on two steel posts and placed near the shore.
The location is a bit away from the old town. Nearby are several apartment blocks, and next to where the skeleton lies is a (closed) swimming pool. In front of it is a large bird figure made of trash. Great!
There is also a natural swimming pool right next to the skeleton, but access is blocked. Seeing how hard the waves are rolling in, I'm sure it has nothing to do with Covid, but that it's just not safe to go in the water.
Nearby is also El Bufadero, a blowhole. Freya stays with the skeleton while I go to see if it's even interesting. The answer is no - at least not with the kind of waves we have today.
After that, we decide to call it a day. Freya is not feeling well and wants to lie down. The stairs down to the city center are also a no-go today. Let's see what tomorrow brings.
