Picturesque Tenerife & La Gomera

A few days ago, I came back from my vacation and now want to share some of my vacation pictures! As usual, I've made far too many of them and will never be able to use them all to put on my walls or in photo albums, but it was fun looking through all of them and some will go on the blog here .. and of course I will endlessly spam Instagram with it! ;)

As I actually enjoy writing about my travels in my letters, I guess there won't be too much text here - would be boring for my penpals who read my blog to have to read about it twice, wouldn't it? But maybe it would be fun to actually see the places I ramble on about in my letters? I hope so ;) Anyway, let's just say that my vacation was lovely and it was fun to discover another two Canary Islands, and I definitely want to go back to also discover those I haven't visited yet. It wasn't as relaxing as I had hoped for because of damn karaoke bars around the hotel and I didn't get as much sleep as I wanted, but I had some fun trips and saw a lot. And here come the pictures!

Let's start with La Gomera. A one day trip was too short do explore all of it, but it did provide me with some great views..

 

..and a walk through (small parts of) Garajonay National Park. I would have loved to spend more time there, it is so beautiful and peaceful! 

Isn't it magical?

Me from behind .. somehow those photos always turn out better ;P

But Tenerife, the main location of my vacation where I spent the rest of the two weeks, also has some beautiful places once you leave the touristy towns that only consist of giant hotels, bars and souvenir shops behind. I especially loved the Teide National Park! I couldn't actually get on top of the mountain, so this remains on my travel bucket list and I'll need to come back to fulfill it, but it was also nice to just see the area.

I also visited the very old and big dragon tree, located in Icod de los Vinos, that the locals seem to extremely proud of.

And of course I couldn't go to the Canaries without going on a boat trip! I was impressed by the giant cliffs of Los Gigantes..

 ..but even more so by the many dolphins and few pilot whales that I was able to spot from the boat. I go on such a trip during all my visits on the Canary Islands, but it fascinates me again every time to see those animals in their natural habitat.