Recent reviews Puerto de la Cruz
[MALU, 18/07/2010] The Chapel of San Telmo in Puerto de la Cruz is situated on a steep rock between the sea water swimming pools Lago Martiánez and the Plaza de Europa. If you stroll through the pedestrian precinct beside the sea you’re sure to come to the square where the small fare-free train starts and ends its tour to Loro Parque, the greatest tourist thing on Tenerife.
From there some steps and a ramp lead up to the Chapel, Africans selling watches and knickknack and local men with parrots waiting for tourists to be photographed with the birds can be found there at any time.
The Chapel is a small white
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[troggy, 04/10/2008] Off the beaton track but not isolated
[MALU, 19/05/2008] One of the lesser known attractions of Puerto de la Cruz, the resort in the north of Tenerife, is the Orchid Garden Sitio Litre. The mansion was built in 1730 and in 1774 the British merchant Archibald Little bought it together with a piece of land which he converted into a beautiful garden. Sitio is the Spanish word for site and the surname Little somehow changed into Litre. In 1856 the Vice Director of Bristol College, Charles Smith, purchased the property, his family owned the house until 1996, the mansion is still privately owned, but the garden has been opened to the public.
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[MALU, 12/05/2008] When we arrived at the Hotel Turquesa Playa in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, it was already pitch dark. Had it not been for the palm trees we had seen on the way from the airport and the warm breeze we had felt, we could have landed in a hotel in Margate or Brighton, we heard only English! Groups of elderly British ladies and gentlemen were toing and froing in the lobby or sitting together playing cards, drinking, smoking, chatting, laughing, we thought we had gate-crashed an OAPs party.
You think I should get going and describe the hotel proper instead of the guests? Well, I think
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[MALU, 10/05/2008] The moment tourists set foot on Tenerife they get to know that Loro Parque is one, if not the attraction of the island, a huge poster welcomes them, all trolleys in the airport carry a small one. So that they won´t forget the message, each bin on the island (more than 10 000 all in all) has a poster, too, showing a photo or a design of one of the animals of this small zoo.
It´s situated in Puerto de la Cruz, the well-known resort in the north of the island, in Punta Brava to be precise near the Playa Jardin beach, there is a free mini train to the park leaving from Avenida de Colon near Hot
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