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Thursday, May 04, 2006
Beautiful Panoramas of Tenerife
Discovered a nice website yesterday, which, although is only in Spanish contains nice images, including many panorama films of various beauty spots you may like to see.
In truth, Lucia, an Italian girl writing 3 Monate auf Teneriffa, in German, found the site and says, "In addition, I found a very interesting web site: cerespain (in Spanish), with panorama films, photos, lots of information about Puerto de la Cruz and many other Spanish places." Lucia, her brother and his wife are staying in Punta Brava, Puerto de la Cruz, in "a very nice house, directly on the sea and with two large terraces."
Some people have all the luck! :)
On the Puerto de la Cruz page, the two panoramas of the town are pretty self-explanatory. You might also like to look at the page for Buenavista del Norte. There, you will find three panoramas and, reading top to bottom these cover; a vista of the town itself taken from the road along cliffs on the way to Punta Teno, a vista over the steep gorge of Masca and, the third is taken from Punta de Teno looking back towards the Los Gigantes cliffs. These really are impressive and more so seen from this direction, though it is hard to show the full effect in an image. In person, their size literally takes your breath away.
Garachico is also somewhere you must not miss. The panorama of the town is taken from the Mirador del Emigrante (The Emigrant's Lookout), but also scroll to the bottom right hand side of the page and click on the mosaic of six images there to see larger versions of various houses and balconies of the town all beautifully dressed up for the fiestas.
You can also virtually visit Icod de los Viños, Los Realejos, Los Silos, La Laguna, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Teide (the panorama is of the marina in Los Gigantes and the famous cliffs, which come under this district) and La Orotava, where there are vistas over the town and towards Mount Teide, plus another mosaic of several emblematic buildings in the town, starting with it's famous Casa de los Balcones (House of the Balconies).
Other locations in Spain and the Canary Islands can be accessed here.
