Tenerife By Bus

Bus Routes: 483 [Las Americas], 460 [Icod], 383[Buenavista] to Garachico. Return: 383[Icod], 460[Las Americas], 483[El Medano] to Los Abrigos. Garachico is an interesting town of well preserved narrow streets and old buildings so I thought that it would be interesting to visit the Romería San Roque there on the 16th having seen the preparations a couple of weeks ago with my sister. I set of, as usual, on the 08:41 483 from Los Abrigos to Las Americas bus station using my bono ticket €1.90. After a 10 minute wait for the 460 to depart for Icod and a combined journey fare of €3.30 we departed on a very bright, clear day so, as the bus got held up on the bridge over the motorway, I took a photo in each direction along the TF-1. We journeyed onwards and, as the sun glinted off a large white cross up on the mountain ridge it reminded me of how many shrines and markers there are on the island. As we approached Santiago del Teide I took another photograph of the now verdant cou...

You may have seen on the news that large swathes of forest in southern Tenerife have been destroyed by fire which has been fought on the ground and in the air over the last week and, over the last couple of days, from the air. The skill and courage of these crews is to be admired as they fly continuously through the smoke just above the flames to help extinguish these fires. There were two planes performing circuits then landing at airport south to reload and refuel avoiding the scheduled flights as they went about their business. Several villages including Vilaflor, the highest village in Spain - see blog, have been evacuated and I hope that they can return to their home with minimum of damage soon. I took these photos from the end of the village near my apartment as the sun was setting. There are large tracts of smoke rather than cloud across the skyline and the aircraft lights can be seen as they circuit the fires. Probably best viewed as a slideshow. View my 'Fore...