A TRIP TO TENERIFE - 12a
Sent : Thursday, February 9, 2006 1:59 PM
Subject : Lanzarote! part 1a
2:00 a.m. is a beastly hour to be about. I did manage to get a little over 4 hours of sleep, so that's something.
So we caught our bus at 3:35 a.m. and it took almost 2 hours of bus travel, including stops to wait for passengers, to get to the southern airport of Tenerife.
After processing through one of the smallest national airports I have ever been in, we took a small bus to our plane. About 45 minutes later we were wiping the sleep (or lack thereof) from our eyes on the fire island of Lanzarote.
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From
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Timanfaya National Park – The Fire Mountain
If sightseeing isn’t very high on your agenda. Make an effort to go to Fire Mountain. The views to be had are truly unique to this island.
Formed between 1730 and 1736, when more than 30 separate eruptions devastated the landscape and destroyed many local villages. The last eruption was in 1824. Though proof of the volcanoes activity is still seen by the demonstration on the mountain. A short coach trip around the national park will allow you to see the strangest of landscapes, with stopping points to get all your photos.
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From
www.lanzarote.com -
Timanfaya National Park
The Park is a monument to the untameable force of nature. The massive volcanic eruptions which lasted from 1730 until 1736 spewed rivers of fire and clouds of black ash leaving a dramatic landscape of twisted lava, destroying 9 villages and burying 13 further in cinders. The violent explosions could be heard from hundreds of kilometres from the island and was one of longest and most devastating of the world. Prior to the eruption, the south of Lanzarote was a fertile place of vineyards, agriculture and cattle farming.
They say that Nasa showed the astronauts of the Apollo 17 photos of Timanfaya Park’s lunar landscape to prepare them for the moon.
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