Trip to Tenerife (Days 4 – 5)

Day 4

Since we weren’t a company that had to “go crazy” every day, we planned a non-committal day off on the fourth day. In the morning, we drove to Bollullo Beach, where the walking path runs above it, in the shade of the trees. Throughout the walk, you can admire nature and the extraordinary views this part of the country offers.

In the afternoon, our destination was Loro Park (zoo). On the way to it, we stopped at a lawnmower. The entrance fee for visiting the zoo was €40 per person. The park is very large. We walked through the entire garden for a couple of hours. We saw white lions, crocodiles, giraffes, flamingos, orcas...

The park is also very family-friendly, as there are many outdoor playgrounds, bars, and other entertainment for children to enjoy. They also have a varied program of performances that aim to stimulate interest in these activities.

Day 5

Since we couldn’t rest for a long time, the very next day we set off on a circular route around the Arenas Negras volcano. Chinyero is a famous hiking area near the volcano with views of blackened lava and a forest of Canary pines.

This time the organization was not taken over by K. So we went by car to the beginning of the reserve, where we left the car and set off. Of course, it was not written on Google that it is already 4 km to the start of the circular route. This route was otherwise not demanding, as it passed through pine trees and was not demanding.

As we got closer and closer to the volcano, there was less and less shade and the heat increased. Along the way, we met two travelers who told us that the circular route begins here. So we set out on a journey where we still didn’t know what awaited us…

Because we didn’t know that we would walk for so long in the sun, on black sand, without a signal, all the paths seemed the same to us and we slightly lost our sense of direction. Gradually we started to run out of water, we couldn’t orient ourselves where we were, so there was a little friction between us. But we made it back safely.

We were excited about the nature that we saw on this hike, as some of us had never been to any kind of desert and none of us had been near any volcanoes, so it impressed us.

The hike lasted about 4 hours, as we rested in the shade, ate, and drank a little. Later, we slowly returned home and along the way, we also stopped for pizza at one of the roadside restaurants.

Part of our company was exhausted by this hike, so Kaya and I went for a walk to the beach in El Medan by ourselves. The beaches near the apartment have black sand. We did not go to the public beach, but walked past the wild beaches and thus chose a bay where there were fewer people and quite calm. The sea was rough, but the water was warm.

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Dan 4

Ker nismo bili družba, ki bi vsak dan morala »hribolazit« smo si četrti dan planirali bol neobvezujoče. V dopoldanskih urah smo se zapeljali do plaže Bollullo, kjer poteka sprehajalna pot nad njo, v senci dreves. Skozi celoten sprehod lahko občuduješ naravo ter izjemne razglede, ki ti jih ponuja ta del države.

Popoldne je bila naša destinacija Loro Park (živalski vrt). Po poti do njega smo se ustavili na kosilcu. Vstopnina za ogled živalskega vrta je bila 40€ na osebo. Park je zelo velik, sprehodili smo se skozi celoten vrt, kar nam je vzelo par ur. Videli smo bele leve, krokodile, žirafe, flaminge, orke …

Dan 5

Ker seveda nismo mogli dolgo počivati smo se že naslednji dan podali na krožno pot okoli vulkana Arenas Negras. Chinyero je znano pohodniško območje v bližini vulkana s pogledom na počrnelo lavo in gozd kanarskih borovcev.

Organizacije tokrat ni prevzela Kaya. Tako smo se podali z avtom do začetka rezervata, kjer smo pustili avtomobil in se odpravili na pot. Seveda ni pisalo na googlu, da je do začetka krožne poti že 4km. Ta pot sicer ni bila zahtevna, saj je potekala skozi borovce in ni bila zahtevna.

Ko smo se bližali vedno bližje vulkanu, vedno manj je bilo sence, vročina je naraščala. Po poti smo srečali dva popotnika, ki sta nam povedala, da se tukaj začne krožna pot. Tako smo stopili na pot, kjer še vedeli nismo kaj nas čaka…

Ker nismo vedeli, da bomo toliko časa prehodili po soncu, na črnem pesku, brez signala, vse poti so se nam zdele enake in smo rahlo izgubili občutek za smer. Postopoma smo začeli ostajati brez vode, nismo se mogli orientirati kje smo, zato je vmes nastalo malo trenj med nami. Vendar smo se varno vrnili nazaj.

Glede narave, ki smo jo videli na tem pohodu smo pa bili navdušeni, sej nekateri izmed nas še nikoli niso bili v neke vrste puščavi in nobeden izmed nas še ni bil v bližini nobenega vulkana, tako nas je to vseeno zelo navdušilo.

Pohod je trajal približno 4 ure, saj smo v senci počivali, kaj malega pojedli in popili. Kasneje smo se počasi vračali proti domu in po poti smo se ustavili tudi na pizzi v eni izmed restavracij ob cesti.

Del naše družbe je ta pohod kar izčrpal, tako da sva se s K odpravili sami na sprehod do plaže v El Medanu. Plaže v bližini apartmaja so s črnim peskom. Nisva šle na javno plažo, ampak sva se sprehajale mimo divjih plaž in si tako izbrale zaliv, kjer je bilo manj ljudi in kar precej mirno. Morje je bilo sicer valovito, vendar voda je bila topla.