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Tenerife resort Los Gigantes is famous for its cliffs |
 Los Gigantes is a resort village on the southwest coast of Tenerife that gets countless visitors who come to see its amazing cliffs. These cliffs, properly known as Acantilados de Los Gigantes, rise some 600m above the sea on the northern side of Los Gigantes, the name of which in Spanish means “The Giants.”
Los Gigantes has a lot more to offer than just these incredible rocky attractions for sightseers though, and the harbour, which is full of boats, is where many excursions begin. There are whale and dolphin-watching trips, and cruises up the coast past the cliffs to the bay of Masca, the Shangri-La mountain village of Tenerife, which until recently was only accessible from the sea or over the mountains on foot or on a donkey.
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La Orotava - interesting Tenerife town |
 La Orotava is a town in the mountains above Puerto de la Cruz in the north of Tenerife and, although it is easy to reach by bus or car, in many ways it is like stepping back in time because of the historic architecture and old cobblestone streets, its ivy-clad walls and sheltered exotic ornamental gardens.
La Orotava is famous for its Casa de los Balcones, (House of Balconies), which is located on the west side of the town in Calle San Francisco. Casa de los Balcones has an inner courtyard in which tall palms grow and staghorn ferns hang in baskets, while up above the ornate Canarian style balconies look down on it all. Local foods, wine, arts and crafts, clothing and textiles are on sale and Casa de los Balcones is very popular with Tenerife tourists.
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Cacti and Succulents in Tenerife |
Anyone who lives on or who visits Tenerife is sure to see an incredible range of cacti and succulents growing wild and in parks and gardens around the island, and of these many of the wild species of succulents are endemics found nowhere else but in the Canary Islands.
Other species like the prickly pear cacti were introduced accidentally after being grown as crops for cochineal and food production. The two species of Prickly Pear you are likely to see are Opuntia dillenii, which has larger spines, yellow flowers and maroon-purple fruits, and Opuntia ficus-barbarica, which has reddish-orange flowers, shorter spines and more prickly green fruits, which turn yellowish and reddish as they ripen. The first species is more often found in the southern areas, especially on the rough coastal ground of Tenerife.
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 If you are a lover of live music, or a musician yourself, you will want to know where it can be heard and where performers can be seen, and if you are new to the island of Tenerife you may find it is a very different scene to what is on offer in many countries such as the UK.
In the south of Tenerife in the tourist resorts like Las Americas and Los Cristianos, what is billed as live music at most bars and venues often just means a singer with pre-recorded backing tracks that they perform over. Guitarists, musicians with instruments and bands are a something of a rarity in the venues in the south of Tenerife.
However, many of the cabaret singers on Tenerife are very good though, and many specialise in doing a tribute to particular acts such as Neil Diamond, as covered by Charlie Hodge. Charlie Hodge, as well as other acts like Cy Benson, Hollie Bourne, Robbie Allen, Eddie Hastings and Young Shelly often appear at Flicks Bar, Amarilla Bay in Costa del Silencio, in Tenerife south. Flicks Bar also stages a regular Sunday afternoon cabaret.
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Agua Garcia – a charming village in Tenerife North |
 Agua Garcia is a charming village in the north of Tenerife that lies tucked away in the mountains and forests above Tacoronte, whilst being only a short run by road to the busy Los Rodeos airport.
Agua Garcia is a “must-see” for nature lovers and anyone who likes to explore the wilder countryside of Tenerife because the luxuriant forests around Agua Garcia are some of the best examples of laurisilva woodland on the island. There is so much wildlife to be found in the area that a book - El Bosque De Aqua Garcia by Maria del Carmen Brito and Vicente-Lope Lucia – was written and published all about it, along with information on the trails and pathways through the woods and mountains.
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