Canary Islands!!!

July 19-26, 2008 As a college graduation present, mom took me to the Canary Islands, off the coast of Morocco!! We stayed at the Apartmentos Casablanca in Peurto de la Cruz. We rented a car for the week, which was well worth it...minus the stress of the STEEP hill outside our apartment, the hilliness of the entire island, and the yellow road (see pictures!)...but we made it! We decided to just do as much sightseeing on our island as we could instead of hopping around from island to island. Each morning we would go somewhere new and then return later in the afternoon to lay out by the pool at our hotel (I'm not a huge fan of black-sand beaches but we did spend some time out there). Two of our bigger trips were a day trip to the volcano, Mt. Tiede, the highest point in Spain! Little did we know how many people would be going to the volcano - we probably waited in line (in the heat and sun) for 2 hours to get on the cable car to go up the volcano. The drive through the national park to get to the volcano was gorgeous! At some lookout points we could see some of the other islands! Our other big trip was a drive to Masca...via the yellow road -- a one lane, curvy, hilly road that was not one-way at all and even had tour buses driving around. When there was a tour bus it would usually wait in a pull-off point and wait for cars to go around it or if something unpredictable happened - cars usually had to back up to make room for each other, since it was a one-lane road! Masca was beautiful and in the end, worth the stress of driving on the yellow road. more pictures

Masca

Mt. Tiede