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El Tanque – a charming village in Tenerife’s northwest |
El Tanque is a village and a municipality in the north-western part of the island of Tenerife and it is well worth a visit because of its traditional Canarian lifestyle, architecture, culture and charm. El Tanque is located in the mountains above the cliffs of La Culata, from where El Roque of Garachico and part of the coastline can be seen.
Farming is the main business of the local people in the El Tanque area and grapes, figs, potatoes and walnuts are among food crops you will see cultivated there. El Tanque sometimes gets covered in the swirling clouds that form around the mountain districts on Tenerife and these clouds bring the moisture the plants and trees thrive on.
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Vilaflor – highest mountain village in Tenerife |
 Vilaflor is a beautiful and unique village located high in the mountains of the south of Tenerife on the road, which ascends up to Mt Teide. Vilaflor is the highest village in Tenerife and the highest municipality in Spain with an average altitude of being 1,160 metres above sea level. Vilaflor has a small population of some 1,5000 inhabitants.
Vilaflor is well worth visiting or at least stopping off in on your way up to Tenerife’s Mt Teide. Vilaflor has a beautiful square adjacent to the Church of San Pedro, which was built in the 17th Century on the site of a former hermitage. Next to the church is the house of Brother Pedro Bethencourt, who was born there in 1626 and who went on to become a well known holy person of Tenerife and who was famed for his travels to Guatemala as an evangelist missionary who founded the Order of Bethlehem. On April 25 the festival of Brother Peter is held in Vilaflor.
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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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