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76Rock pools of Garachico that abound with life
Garachico has been beckoning to me every time I look out from my balcony with a sea view because just down the coast I can see its El Roque looking picturesque and mysterious, and just the sort of place to...
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76Agua Garcia is a place for firsts
It was my first visit to Agua Garcia and turned out to be some firsts for other reasons too, which I'll explain later. My journey began when I bought a book all about the wonderful world of nature to be...
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74Sights worth seeing out to sea or on dry land
If you live on Tenerife, or are on holiday here, you have probably seen the adverts for the whale watching trips and maybe even been on one, but it is sometimes possible to spot Dolphins and Pilot Whales...
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76Strangler from Oz gets a grip on the island
Icod de los Vinos is most famous for its mighty Drago Milenario, the ancient Dragon Tree, believed to be between 1,000 and 3,000 years-old but in the nearby square Plaza de la Pila is another tree that is...
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58Water garden packed with surprises
Water gardens hold a special fascination for me that must go back to my childhood days when I used to love searching for newts and frogs and other aquatic life in local ponds. Not a lot has changed apart from...
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57No wonder they call it San Juan de la Rambla
San Juan de la Rambla has an intriguing ring to its name I think, and for me conjures up visions of swashbuckling pirate films. It is a village I so often pass through on the bus from Icod to Puerto de la Cruz...
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69Going bananas is not as simple as it used to be
Bananera el Guanche is far more than a banana plantation and is somewhere I had heard about before I moved to Tenerife, as well as having seen it from the window of the bus into Puerto de la Cruz on many...
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63Led by the nose on a wet walk in the mountains
"If you go down to the woods," goes the old song but in Tenerife it's usually a case of going up to the ones here because they are usually high on the mountains. I had thought of going to the forests in...
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75Wonders of nature on show in Butterfly City
What is a rare butterfly from the Malaysian mangrove swamps and south-Asian jungles doing in Tenerife you might wonder? It is flying around in the wonderful world of the Mariposario del Drago butterfly...
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74Getting down to reality in Los Realejos
Los Realejos is a town in the mountains in the north of Tenerife and I often pass through it on the bus. I see buildings, and bars and shops and streets but nothing that calls out to me to get off and...
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