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| Pico del Teide as seen from Los Roques. The volcano is the third largest on Earth, 3,718 m (12,185 feet) |
The peak seen through a zoom. The last volcanic eruption in Tenerife was
in 1909. It lasted only ten days. |
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Las Cañadas as seen from
Pico del Teide. |
The cable car takes you up from 2,356 m to 3,555 m (1,199m altitude difference) in 8 minutes. The cabin takes max. 38 persons. |
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| View to the North towards La Orotava valley and Puerto de la Cruz. | To the right you can see the Izaña Astrophysical Observatory. |
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Lava formations. |
Lava formations covered with ice. |
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| "Where birds do not reach - Donde las aves no llegan". Yet, we saw this sparrow in an altitude of almost 3700 meters. | Only a few plants have been able to adapt to the extreme conditions at this altitude. One of them is Gnaphalium teydeum. |
