I've recently been to Tenerife with my father, brother and couple of family friends. Tenerife is an island belonging to a group of islands, called Canary islands. The fun thing is that temperature there never goes below 15 celsius and never above 30 celsius, so its pretty much perfect time.
While there was cold 0 in Croatia, where we come from, on our arrival we we're greeted by hot sun as you can see on a picture bellow from the terace of our apartment.
Since most of us are bikers, we rented some motorcycles and went exploring the island for couple of days.
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On our first day with bikes we just rode around a bit and ran into an beach with black sand! You can see that both rocks and sand is black on the beach, and of course my father.
Since we were pretty tired we called it a day and decided we would do more exploring tomorrow.
Next day we managed to get to a little village called Masca, its situated in a valley and you could say its hidden from an unknowing eye. After sitting down in a small local bar (we had feeling as we we're visiting a friend at his home, didn't look like your traditional bar at all), we found out from locals that the reason their village is hidden in mountains is historical. They say that in the time of pirates, Tenerife was on hotspot being in middle of Europe/Africa and America, so the village is situated so that pirates can't get easily to them nor they can easily transfer pillaged treasure back to their ships. You can see the road to the village on picture bellow, didn't get one of the actual village but you can check it out on google.
After we have eaten our fair share of homemade prosciutto and cheese we sat on our bikes and went to the next stop, Icod de los Vinos the home of the Dragon tree. The Dragon tree is speculated to be one of the oldest living trees on Earth, esitimated to be from 800 up to 3000 years of age. No matter its age, it is a beautiful and huge tree. Sadly I'm not the biggest fan of taking pictures so I will put the picture from internet for you to get the idea of it.
And our last stop with bikes was the vulcan which "made" the island, Teide. It is a huge vulcan which had last eruption not so long ago, in year 1909. but they say its safe. Snapped a quick picture of my father (as you can see he is much more fond of photography than me) and we went back to our apartment.
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After those bike travels we returned our motorcycles back and enjoyed the rest of our vacation eating amazing foods. They have so many different types of fish, guess that's what you get when you're in the middle of ocean, which they are more than able to prepare properly (if you ever go to Tenerife make sure to check out fish restaurant in La Caleta). Apart from fish we had Harely's restaurant infront of our apartment which had one of best ribs I've ever tasted. Apart from eating we could enjoy swimming, raced around a bit with cartings and all the stuff you generally do on vacation (drink beers and do nothing :D ).