A cousin of mine is starting a project (GreenWalk) of a company that organizes trekking around the Lisbon area. Nothing new except for a small detail: during the walk and 4x4 trip my cousin describes the morphology of the terrain, the reasons for what we see in the landscape, the different type of soil and rocks, etc. Not only did we got to see wonderful landscapes but we also got to learn how it was formed.
Here is the link a entry on his blog (in Portuguese) about this trip.
It seams like pains induced by prolonged bike rides are short lived, so we went for another bike trip. This time we decided to go east, to Santa Cruz (wonderful city) and then ride through the Bosque de la Esperanza. Beautiful landscapes, great roads, good company and a motorcycle that is quite underpowered. What else can you ask (apart from a better bike)?
Still no pictures uploaded. No patience for that just yet.
When we decided to come to Tenerife (it was a 5 minutes decision) we didn't dewed some much into details - like what to expect from such a small island. Asking around to some friends we were told not to expect nothing great. Well, maybe thanks to those advices our expectations were high but they were completely blown away. The cities are well arranged and clean, the people are nice, and the volcanic landscape provides a never ending moments of visual pleasure.
My advice, if you're coming to Tenerife, is to rent a bike the next day you arrive. You can go anywhere with it, park almost anywhere and mostly see the landscape as you ride in good mountain roads.
We're loving it!
Yesterday we decided to go for a bike ride, on a Honda Varadejo 125.
In the map is the route we did. I can tell you that after years without riding bike doing 160 km is pretty hard on your butt.
We have some hundreds photos, and I'll upload some soon.
One thing that didn't work out that well was that the cable car to the top of the Teide last trip was at 16:00. It was 16:30 when we got there. We had no idea that it closed so early.
The best landscape was the one we found in the North West part of the island. It's hard to come to words with such breath tacking views. The road was a serpent going down on huge cliffs. In the bottom of a narrow valley a small set of houses, Masca, lives in what must have been years of isolation. Beautiful.
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