Walk “TAMAIMO BIG LOOP”

Thursday 17th July, 2008

Mo, Ray and Moose.

 

After leaving home at 10am we arrived at Tamaimo which is situated just before Santiago del Teide and commenced our hike at 10.45am and with the aid of Rays new toy… a GPS, we headed uphill for one hour to Arguayo passing Montana del Angel.

The Route Past Angel Mountain

 

 

 

 

We walked up through this quaint village and passed a small museum but didn’t have time to go and investigate. We’ll do that another time.

We then walked up past cliffs and out onto the “Camino Real”. This is the ancient old route used by farmers to get round the island…it’s more a donkey trail really.

After another hour, this brought us down to the main road at the village of El Retamar. We continued downhill crossing the main road several times until we reach our destination of Tamaimo once again.

Santiago del Teide From The Highest Point

 

We found a lovely little Argentinian (edited) Venezuelan bar restaurant and supped the local red wine and ate chicken and chips, costing us less than 10 euros each.

 

 

 

The hike was 9 kilometres and we climbed from 1880 feet to 3230 feet in temperatures of mid 30´s and it took us about three hours.