It was middle of the night, when the alarm rang. Sigita jumped up full of excitement - Yeah, finally we'll visit Teide today. I just got to bed few hours earlier and wasn't really in the mood to drive an old truck up to a volcano. Although, thinking about it now, it does sound adventurous. After a short breakfast (or midnight snack), off we went into the night. The GPS calculated the shortest route for us, which was much more fun the main road we thought we would be taking. 2 hours and 2500m in altitude later, we reached the base of Teide's cable car. Just in time to make amazing pictures of the sunrise in this stunningly looking environment.
Peter
Today was the long awaited day when we went up the volcano el Teide and it was amazing! Wiki says "it is the third highest volcano on a volcanic ocean island". If you ever want to have a feeling you're on the Mars, this place definitely leaves that kind of impression. This can't be a place on Earth! :) We wanted to go there and see the sunrise but the first cable car should have been going up only at 9 am. Due to the wind, it was almost 1,5 h late. However, we managed to take some pictures of the peak in sunrise on our way there.
To reach the crater, we should have requested a permit 2 month earlier as it has limited number of people who can visit it. So we didn't get there. Anyway, I think this was an amazing experience and we were missing only the last 200 m to the peak. At 3554 m we both were as high as never before (well, except flying in a plain..:) ) !
Ouh, and I took plenty of rocks with me :D
Sigita
Teide in sunrise
A view from Teide
Taken while we were waiting at the cable car to get up to Teide
A view from Teide
The peak of Teide
A view from cable car
A view from Teide
Picture of Teide on our way to Los Gigantes
