Hiking in Masca

One of the things i absolutly HAD to do while at Tenerife was hiking in Masca again. Yes, i have been there before on my biology studytrip but it was awesome and beautiful.
The problem was that my parents both have some trouble with their backs and stuff but the good thing was that my uncle and his fiancé were so ready to go because i told them how awesome the trip was. But a thing i tihnk they didn't understand was the difficulty of the trip. I told them about how you literally have to climb down at some places and teeter along cliffs only holding yourself up by a rope. It's pretty exciting!

We ordered the trip through Thomas Cook who had a cooperation partner who made these trips. I never got the name of this company and i tried to contact Thomas Cook about the name of the hiking guides but they never wrote back. Anyway, the bus came an picked us up at our hotel and i think it took an hour to get everyone from different hotels before we headed to Masca. We got divided into different groups by nationality because they had a 4-5 different guides that spoke different language. We got an Scandinavian guide who spoke spanish as well. We did expect an english speaking guide as it said on Thomas Cooks website but luckly we understood swedish all of us.
They had everything you needed for a hike. You could rent boots and shoes from the guides. Also walking sticks for only 1£. There was food in the trip and lots of water and fruit. You basically just need to wake up and get out to the bus in the morning. That's it.

Anyway the trip was beautiful like the last time. The landscape was amazing and the moutain goat was happy. It had been raining so there was a lot of water runing down the cliff so it was slippery and it was impossible not to become wet but it just made everything seem more green as well. The guide was really good at explaining things as we went on and i learned a lot of new stuff that i didn't learn or noticed from the first trip.
Like some of the palm trees (That is endemic for Canary Islands) was black because of a great fire many many years ago and the last volcanic eruptions (rather small) was not from Teide, but from "another" colcano near Masca, so the affect could be seen a few places. We also saw some kind of small pigeon up close because they were use to hikers giving them food. They were really cute! And she brought a banana so she could feed the small lizards and showed us cactus lice that is used for colouring in lipstick and things like that. Very fascinating.

And a random thing i just HAVE to metion! When we were at the end of the trip and about to hit the shore the guide stopped us to say good bye and suddently a cat appeared. We were all very confused because we just went through 8 kilometers of cliff so how did the cat end up there? People started to feed it the ham from the sandwiches the guide gave us and gave it some water as well. We found out later that it belonged to some people that owned a little house at the shore that you can also reach by boat. So they took their cats with them when they went there apparently. So they crawled around to the hikers and begging for food. In the end a boat brought us back to Los Gigantos from where they drove us home to our hotel.

The pigeon look alike bird

Look at the small people down there!

The Masca "elephant"

The mysterious cat!

The road to Masca. A very... unique experience in a big bus. 

MustCat - A catamaran trip in the Atlantic

Before we went to Tenerife we could see the list of different trips we could book. My dad has done a lot of sailing when he was young so naturally we should get ourself on a boat somehow.
We ended up booking a trip with a huge catamaran boat called MustCat. The special thing with the tourist catamaran boats is the net in the front where you can lay right over the water, while the boat is sailing.

The crew on board was really nice and jokingly. They were playing around with people and was really good at explaing the creatures around us (whales and dolphins). They spoke 3 different languages so that everyone could follow along. They served a lot of different dirnks on board and you could drink as much as you wanted. You had to stay hydrated when you are on the sea for 3 hours in that heat.
While we sailed out one of the crew members asked if we wanted to go diving when we sailed close to the cliffs. I would have said yes big time if i actually had my swimsuit with me but i  was too stupid to do that. It was only 15 euros!!! Next time i will bring my swimsuit and take advantage of the deal. Either way, the french family that had taking over the nets didn't want to lay there when we weren't sailing, so my family took it over afterward and tried to get a small sea tan.

There are few rules on board and the crew started out with repeating these rules in english, german and french. But i just have to mention this really rude french family that no one told off. The boat was for relaxing and whale watching and it was marked where on the boat you could sit, but as soon the whales showed up, the french family was everywhere... Everywhere!!! And they jump in from of people so only they could see the whales. Another rule was that children under 12 could not stay in the nets, because the holes are big and they could fall through them. These french people didn't care and send their small children out on them and you could only be 4 in the net at a time, but these french people... they didn't care and send theit children out even though there were already 4 people in the net. When we were sailing home the little girl started to kick me... all the way back... And apparently stop doesn't mean stop in french. The parents clearly didn't care. So it ruined the trip a bit and i wanted to show you some pictures but many of them is really bad and filled with french people. But i'll cut them out for you.

Almost impossible to cut the french family out of the pictures, but here is little atlantic spotted dolphin and short finned pilot whale

Teide is hiding in the clouds but there was snow on the top!

Chilling in the net 

Tenerife - Los Christianos, from quiet fishing village to tourism paradise

Last weekend i got home from a week on Tenerife, the beautiful Spanish island close to the African west coat. I have been there before in 2012 when i went to secondary school ('gymnasium' in danish) on a studytrip because my A level was biology. It's a vulcanic island and it's far from any mainland so the nature has been partly untouched for hundreds of years at some places in the heights.

We lived in Los Christianos which is an old fishing village that has grown a lot since the tourists started to come to the island. Even i could see the different from 2012 to now. A few new hotels has been build since i was there last time. The village, or you can call it a city now, has grown together with the neighbor city Las Americas which was almost only build for the purpose of the tourists. That means it's not any traditional Spanish Canaria city and it's very affected by other cultures. That's why this is the place where you go to eat, drink and party. There is activity all day and all night near the beach and in the side streets, while Los Christianos is a bit more down to earth and relaxing.
That's why i recommended my family that we went there, instead of Las Americas. I think my family was kind of thankful for that, because loud music inside or outside the hotel though you had to go kind of far to get to the beach and all the resturents and souvenirer shops. The walk down there was not a problem for me and the weather is always warm so i think it was just ading to the experince that you had to pass all the locals to get down to the harbor where the big ferries are laying. You can also rent fishing rods and go big game fishing. There is small stalls lined up from different companies that get you on a boat so you can try to catch some fish you can't catch home in the cold north.

The harbor in Los Christianos around dinner time. 

The hill/mountain that kind of splits Los Christianos and Las Americas.
Picture taken from the terrace at Hotel Los Alisios.

We stayed at hotel Los Alisios (Again for my part) and i have to say that the hotel has become so much nicer than last time i was there. Not that there was anything wrong with it before but they have modernized all rooms and made new bathrooms (without tubs though) and it all just looked really nice and actually kind of Scandinavian? Maybe there was a reason for that, because there was a whole lot of Swedes and Norwegians at the hotel and some of the staff could speak Swedish.
To our big surprise and to my dad amusment we could actually watch DR1 on there TVs in the rooms and follow the danish news. There was a lot of different channels from a lot of other different countries so you could see the news from where ever you come from. That's a nice detail.
The rooms (or call it flats) were will full kitchen so we could eat breakfast in our rooms. A few of the days we went down and ate at the restaurant at the hotel and the buffet was really nice. There was a lot to choose from even though i'm allergic to a few things.
It's a hotel i can highly recommend if you are not somehow physically disabled. The hotel is laying on a "small" hill and is quiet a walk away from the main city/tourist area.

Kitchen and dining table.

I don't have a picture of the main bedroom where my parents stayed. Only this where i stayed.
Perhaps the most comfortable hotel bed i have ever slept in. No jokes!

The new bathrooms.

Tilbage fra Tenerife :(

Jeg er så nederen over Danmark lige i denne periode >.<
Nu har jeg lige været en dejlig dejlig uge på Tenerife med 2z og så kommer man hjem til kulde, 2 par tykke sokker... og kulde....
Det har virkelig været en fantastisk tur hvor vi har vandret i kløfter, bjerg skråninger og på vulkanen Teide. Vi har set vilde delfiner og hvaler, surfer og kørt karting!! Hotellet/lejlighederne var så gode og der blev skiftet sengetøj og vasket op for os hver dag! Der var en pool lige neden for vores teresse og hvis man kiggede ud af vinduet om morgen så man bjerge<3
Jeg har aldrig været så skønt et sted!!!
Gad godt jeg boede sådan et sted! Jeg vil have palmer i baghaven!! :(
ps. vi løb da også lige ind i årets karneval mens vi var der nede :D

Så det i dag.. TENERIFE!!!

Så det i dag jeg tager af sted :D
Jeg har ventet i lang tid på at komme afsted og min kuffert har været pakket i et godt stykke tid xD
Jeg glæder mig til at skulde vandre på en vulkan og se små delfiner<3  Og jeg glæder mig til at se hvad det egentlig er for nogle lejligheder vi kommer til at bo i :o
Det kan kun blive bedre end det mig og Ayla boede i i London xD
Nu sidder jeg bare og venter på min far kommer hjem fra genoptræning og vi kan få noget mad :o
Så kommer min mor hjem og skal kører mig op på gym for at pakke færdig, da vi skal dele en kuffert xD

Studieturen går til Tenerife!

Jeg ville lige ligget et indlæg mere ud.. mest for at blærer mig lidt xD
Jeg skal til Tenerife på studietur! som er noget helt andet end de gang jeg har været i Berlin, men som selvfølgedig også var skønt.. anden gang... da det ikke var Mønsted skole...
anyway...
Du kan se billeder fra det hotel vi skal bo på her nedenunder :D
Vi ved ikke helt hvad vi skal lave i nu, ud over vi skal gå rundt oppe på en vulkan og kigge på blomster... og fugle... xD
Jeg er dog lidt urolig for det med bagagen.. de havde vist regnet med at vi kun skulle have håndbagage med alle sammen til en hel uge... hvad tænker de på?? En klasse med 25 elever... 22 af dem er piger... kun håndbagage?? ej vel?
Håber de finde ud af noget INDEN vi skal til at afsted!! For jeg kan ikke pakke udstyr til en hel uge i en taske på størrelse med vores skoletaske!! Kan knap nok have mit gymnastiktøj + en enkelt bog eller to D: