A flower carpet being laid in the streets of La Orotava
for the annual Corpus Cristi festival
This festival is a great draw for tourists - although mostly these are Spanish visitors
The last page took you to the south of Tenerife with its perpetual sunshine and warm even temperatures. The north of the island is very different with an Atlantic climate of clouds and changing weather. This supports considerable vegetation across the hills, much of it in the form of laurel forests. Here the villages and small towns are Spanish and, although it is changing, keep much of their cultural character and charm.
Two men working on the flower carpet
Pictures are laid out in chalk on the tarmac and then filled-in with flowers
Families working together on the pictures
A photographer getting the shot shown to the right
Village and sea, visited, but not destroyed by visitors
The village square with its church and beyond the sea
Quiet lanes with cooling breezes
Doorway to... drinks, apothecary?
Siesta time for this street
Hills and hairpin roads in the north of the island
Moss covered path through a laurel forest...
...and a dust one with no protection from the sun
A path through a gorge
Waterfall and pool
Wandering through the forests
Looking across the northern hills towards Mount Teide on the horizon. Something in the colours and textures of a Rousseau painting maybe?
The geology of tenerife comes, like that of the Faroes and Iceland, from being a volcano in the middle of the Atlantic. Here the squirts of lava can be seen forcing their way through cracks in older rocks.
Mount Teide beckoning above the clouds
The next page
accepts that invitation from the mountain and takes you up it, all 12,198 feet of it, a breath-taking place in both senses.
The last page was about the south of Tenerife
Go to some other hills with hairpin bends - in Vietnam
The south of Scotland has palms too - at Logan gardens
