April 2, 2023
Early this morning we sailed into the harbour of Santa Cruz on the island of Tenerife.Santa Cruz has a population of around 210,000 and the whole Island has a population of 1 million. The Island gets around 4 million yearly visitors. For today we have a visit planned to the pyramids of Guimar. we boarded the bus around 9:30 this morning, for a 30 min bus ride to the Pyramids.We arrived at the pyramids just as they opened for the public. The pyramids are mostly a set of mortered rockwalls build on lava rock. Archeologists determined that they dated from the 1900’s. Adventurer Thor Heyerdahl took a liking in the pyramids and was trying to make a connection with artifacts found in Central America and Egypt.The Walls apparently line up with the sun on summer solstice (June 21) and in another direction with winter solstice (Dec 21) There is also a replica of the Kon Tiki ,the ocean raft from Heyerdahl. After our tour we were given time to enjoy a authentic spanish style coffee. Our next stop was planned for a town called Candelaria. This was a beautiful small town on the Atlantic ocean with lava rock beaches. In this town there was an opportunity to visit the cathedral. We decided to do our own thing and we went for a walk through the town instead. As it was Sunday today, lots of local families were enjoying their time on the beaches.Todays temperature was around 23 deg celcius. We ended up at a local Patio where we enjoyed a beer and an empanada what cost us a whole 6 Euro. (not bad). After spending an hour in this town, we boarded the bus to go back to Santa Cruz. We followed the coastal highway back towards the City which gave us a beautiful scenic view of the Atlantic ocean. Our last leg of the tour was a drive through the streets of Santa Cruz. I have to say it is a very beautiful City build on the water with houses sprawling up the hillside. I imagine that those elevated houses have a very scenic view looking out over the ocean. The City is also blessed with many parks. As today was a Sunday, I noticed several markets were setup in the park. Eventually we ended back up at the Pier. In the afternoon we visited a few shops which were setup along the pier, to purchase a few postcards. Lots of electronics are quite inexpensive here due to the low add on tax rate. That pretty well sums up our first visit to Europe. It was sure nice to see the nice clean streets compared to our African visits.
Cheers.
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