The last couple days we’ve been extending our walks and testing the state of our feet. So, we hiked Montaña Roja and surrounds yesterday (about 5 miles) and then walked to Los Abrigos for lunch today (about 8 miles total).
Montaña Roja is a prominent geologic feature from El Médano. It’s what’s left of a volcanic cone that has been eroded by the sea on one side, giving it the shape of a wave or shark’s tooth. It’s about 500 ft elevation. For our state of mobility, it was enough for us and the views are great.
We hiked it from the El Médano side (the gentle side), and then came back to the house via the some lesser hills and paths.
The next day we decided to walk to Los Abrigos, a quiet fishing town with some restaurants that we read served the best and freshest fish in Tenerife. The walk is along the sea the whole way, with some great little bays and views.
One thing that’s amazing are these huge greenhouse type structures that we see all over Tenerife. They are covered in some sort of cloth, not like a hothouse. Vegetables and bananas and other crops are grown in these structures, probably protecting them from the winds and harsh sun. The one in the picture below is almost a mile across and a half mile wide. What Chris is walking in front of is the narrow side, so they are huge!
Arriving in Los Abrigos, it’s as described…the old village is particularly quaint, with narrow streets and cobbles, and the whole town spice-and-span neat and well maintained – a lovely seaside village with a waterfront with many restaurants to choose from.
The hardest choice we had was choosing a restaurant! We ordered some calamari and grilled fish for two, which was more like grilled fish for four, AND a mixed salad but somehow we ate it all. Yum and yum (and yum). With the meal come these potatoes called Canarian potatoes that are pretty great. I think they brine them before cooking so they have plenty of salt without having to sprinkle salt on them. They brought three different dipping sauces too that were pretty much good on everything. The seafood display was in the kitchen, and so that’s where our lunch came from.
In the map above, Montaña Roja is on that knob sticking out below our walking path. And the flat grey areas are greenhouses, so you get an idea of their scale.
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