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Güimar, Tenerife, Spain - 3rd February 2014
By: Strunki
Hello Mum,
today we went to the southside of Tenerife, where we found some mysterious pyramids. Yes, You read right, they even have pyramids here in Güimar .
Not as huge as in Egypt or as well known as the ancient buildings in South-America, but here are some monuments that You can identify as pyramids.
We were welcomed by two impressive figureheads formerly ornated two vessels of the Olsen shipping company, that has sponsored this museum in cooperation with the norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl who rediscovered the pyramids here in the 80ties
störte said, the people here have so much luck that we found Helmuts boats yesterday, otherwise he had to enter this ship here, a replica in perfect plushie-size of the "Santa Maria", one of the three ships Christopher Columbus discovered the New World...
The next impressive exhibition piece was a huge long drum shaped as a crocodile from Papua-New Guinea
Then we went into the first building
and found at the entrance a rebuilded relief stele of "Kon-Tiki" a god of the Inkas and eponym for T. Heyerdahls first raft in 1947
This nice guy is a rebuilded statue of a south-indian native who is fishing
Look at this fierce Moche-man
Here we have a scene, how the native canarians, the Guanches looked
In this room we learned where in the world reedboats are used
And here we learned where in the world pyramids were built
The ancient canarians built pyramids as well...
Here we met huge, but friendly wooden Komodo dragons
The landscape to the seaside is also very nice
And some more views on pyramids again
And other nice scenes again
We are sooo astonished about this secret place
In another area of the museum we learned something about the canarian flora
Here is the sweet tabaiba (Euphorbia balsamifera)
And here Echium decaisnei
Euphorbia canarensis I found here
This plant also was nice but I forgot the name... sorry
In this bush we played a little bit
And here we see a blooming Aloe vera
Not very often You see the aeonium blooming
This tree we already know from the Canadas del Teide
The opuntia is an emigrant from america but very common here because until last century the conchenille louse was breeded on this plant for cropping the red karmesin pigment
Sugarcane, a very important ingriedience for störtes fave holiday drink
A violet nymphea
And what do the canaries produce today?
And here we have another last good reason for enjoying the stay in this magnificent museum: To test Thor´s rafts and boats
Kon Tiki
Ra and Tigris-Boats
Woow, what a full and nice day, but now we are tired enough to fall in sleep
Good night and sleep as well
Yours
UrselHH
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Posted Feb 3, 2014, 11:41 pm
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Punta Brava, Tenerife, Spain - 4th February 2014
By: Strunki
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Posted Feb 4, 2014, 11:50 pm Last edited Feb 5, 2014, 12:04 am by Strunki
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Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain - 5th February 2014
By: Strunki
Holá Mum,
this is Your UrselHH again for today
I learned the word for "mouse" in spanish language
Look, it´s ratón
Love You Mum
Yours UrselHH
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Posted Feb 5, 2014, 10:55 pm
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Playa San Marcos, Tenerife, Spain - 11th February 2014
By: Strunki
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Posted Feb 11, 2014, 8:39 pm Last edited Feb 11, 2014, 8:44 pm by Strunki
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