Ship was sailing all night. At the sunrise we were already in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Once on the deck I saw sharp mountaine just opposite to our jetty…
Tenerife is the biggest island in the Canary chain. I book the tour to the north of the island – just to see more and expecting that there will be aview of the volcano Teide – more then 3700 m high. They took us to some view points, but sorry – the sky was cloudy and the view of the Teide summit obscured. Instead I saw the banana plantations, historic town Puerto de la Cruz and the impressive sea cliffs of this volcanic island.
The guides do not write about this, but you can easily go from Santa Cruz to the colonial city of San Cristobal de la Laguna – listed
on the UNESCO’ World Heritage list. It is located about 500 m above sea level so it is hard to believe that they built the tram line to La Laguna. Yes, they did! Trams go every 10 minutes, the trip takes half an hour and is dirty cheap: 1.35 euro each way. La Laguna is a great complex of the old architecture. St Augustin church is in my opinion the most picturesque!
