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From the beach it's up twisting roads into the Anaga Mountains, they remind me of the centre of Sardinia, the craggy mountains, the bushes and cacti typical for the Mediterranean macchia. When we came to a fork we moved down again, our next destination was the village Taganana on the north ... Read review
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...up twisting roads into the Anaga Mountains, they remind me of the centre of Sardinia, the craggy mountains, the bushes and cacti typical for the Mediterranean macchia. When we came to a fork we moved down again, our next destination was the village Taganana on the north coast, accessible only by one road or by boat. The inhabitants used to be either fishermen or workers on the sugar cane plantations which the Spaniards had introduced, now they live ... ...bushes are enormous in the Anaga Mountains, try to imagine heather 3m high! We had reached the Mercedes Forest (after the village Las Mercedes nearby), we were in the so-called Laura Silva, the Laurel Forest, which once, many millions of years ago, covered the whole of the European continent. When the climate became colder it receded to the Canary islands - just like tourists do nowadays!
We were lucky not to find the Mercedes Forest moist which ...
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