Seen Teide national park

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Dear followers, my computer seems to be overloaded by all my photos.

I'd love to post more spontaneously but the pics need ages to load.

We are on the beautiful island of Tenerife since Friday.

My first posting from Tenerife is about the Teide.

We can see that volcano mountain even from your hotel.

Here a link to the basic infos:

https://www.volcanoteide.com/en/national_park

The drive by car from Puerto de la Cruz lasts already more than an hour.

There we some clouds gathering along the coast line, 

but lucky us: they did not reach Teide!

Exotic landscapes.

There is enough to do and see around and on the mountain!

For the teleférico (cable car) ride you need registration.

That was taken care by our semi-local friends.

The trail from the upper station is only 614 meters but partly quite

challenging, estimated time for climbing up is 30 minutes.

One group climbing up.

Facts.

Clouds.

Basically you can see all the Canary Islands from the top of Teide.

This should be Gomera.

Spanisch für Wandertour Anfänger!

Sunglasses - yes

Warm jacket - yes

No, I never owned hiking boots.

I made it! 3.718 meters above sea level.

The clouds gathered along the coast. Lucky us!

Going down.

The only snow we saw, next to the cable car upper station.

Been there, done that. 

There is really more to see, like these stones:

Mirador Roques de Garcia. Wow.

Back there the Parador Nacional, hotel & restaurant.

Oderazzi's recommendation: spend two days in the area,

stay overnight in this hotel. 

Then you could easy drive up to this Obaservatorio.

You do not have to go hiking, you can see amazing things

from your car, too.

Amazing or bizarre ... this is supposed to be a shoe,

Cinderella's shoe!