Daniel Pietzsch

Selfie

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:20:08 +0100

Selfie

La Gomera photoset 2/2. Part 1.

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:40:07 +0100

Coffee on La Gomera: not recommended, unless you know where it’s good. They often use the island’s tap-water, which contains lots of chlorine.

Watercress soup with Gofio.

Nicole in Vallehermoso.

Vallehermoso.

Sign at a campground.

Lots of forest trails to walk in the National Park in the center of the island.

Playa de Santiago

La Gomera photoset 2/2.

Part 1.

Panorama of Valle Gran Rey, La Gomera.

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:20:06 +0100

Panorama of Valle Gran Rey, La Gomera.

La Gomera photoset ½. Part 2.

Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:25:41 +0100

Seen from a day-long walk.

There are lots of little towns like this on La Gomera.

A significant part of La Gomera’s National Park was destroyed by a fire a couple of years back. You can still see this a lot.

View on the part of Valle Gran Rey where we stayed for 11 nights. We had an appartment in the white building in the center of this photo.

View from our roof-terrace.

Nicole on our day-long walk.

The beach of La Playa, Valle Gran Rey. We spent lots of sunny days here.

Often, you could see Teide on Tenerife from La Gomera.

La Gomera photoset ½.

Part 2.

This is how signs look on La Gomera to indicate a point of...

Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:15:50 +0100

This is how signs look on La Gomera to indicate a point of interest and photographic opportunity.
I wonder how many people recognise the symbol pictured.

On our last day on the Canary Islands, we took the early morning...

Wed, 24 Dec 2014 14:20:11 +0100

The Pico del Teide (3718m above sea level)

Fisheye-selfie at the top

Panorama

You’re still 200m from the very top, when the cablecar drops you.

The exhausting walk

On our last day on the Canary Islands, we took the early morning ferry from El Hierro to Tenerife, from where our plane departed in the early evening of that day.
Since it was perfect weather that day, we seized the opportunity to go up the Pico del Teide. The cablecar was operating and took us up another 1000+ meters from the rest of the national park to 3500 m and just below the peak. Since you need a permit to walk up the last 200 meters, we just walked around the peak a little. And this was quite a new experience: having never been that high up, walking at this altitude was pretty exhausting. My heart rate went up quite quickly after doing a few steps, especially uphill.

El Teide National Park Panorama

Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:37:18 +0100

El Teide National Park Panorama

While we spent most of our time on the islands La Gomera and El...

Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:43:03 +0100

El Teide. Unfortunately, it was too windy to go up that day.

Our rental car

Strong Nicole ;-)

While we spent most of our time on the islands La Gomera and El Hierro, the first two nights we stayed on Tenerife. The day in-between was spent visiting Teide National Park. Unfortunately, we couldn’t go up El Teide itself – Spain’s highest mountain with approx. 3700m above sea level – because it was too windy and the cablecar wasn’t operating. But we nevertheless enjoyed the volcanic landscape of the national park, which is still at around 2000m altitude.

(Fortunately, we were lucky enough to have perfect weather on our last day on the islands, so in the end, we still got the opportunity to go up the mountain…)

Descending onto Tenerife at the start of our 3-week honeymoon on...

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:41:36 +0100

Descending onto Tenerife at the start of our 3-week honeymoon on the Canary Islands.