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77The mysterious pyramids of Tenerife island
If I give you the word "pyramid" most people will think of Egypt or Mexico perhaps, but these ancient and mysterious buildings are found all over the world in many different countries and locations including...
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82Antlions and other unusual insects of Tenerife
Tenerife's wide variety of natural habitats and semi-tropical to tropical temperatures make it an ideal home for very many unusual insects. One of the most spectacular is the weird looking Praying Mantis...
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72Wonders 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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74Cueva del Viento the Cave of the Wind
Cueva del Viento, meaning Cave of the Wind, is a village situated over what is said by some sources to be the longest and largest volcanic cave system in the world, although the website for it says it's the...
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70Tea and scones Tenerife style
Last time I went to the Agua Garcia area to visit my friends Emily and Fernando it was, aptly for a village with water in its name, a very wet day but not so on this occasion when the sun was shining brightly...
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73Going 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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74How now brown cow? Glad to see you at last
I have a book on Agua Garcia which details all the wildlife to be found in its forests and countryside and had visited the area before and fell in love with the place. So having received an invitation to the...
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61Frogs enjoy the rainfall on Tenerife
It may come as a surprise to many people to learn that there are two species of frog thriving on Tenerife, even though the island has very few natural sources of fresh water and is often very hot and dry....
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81Mother Nature dresses up for Christmas in Tenerife
Tenerife is perhaps not a place that springs to mind when you think about Christmas but in fact it is an ideal place to spend the festive season. And not just because of the countless bars and cheap prices...
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56No 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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