BAIRD FAMILY HOLIDAY TO TENERIFE Strongly influenced by the tribal culture of the Guanches (the original inhabitants), Tenerife was conquered by the Spanish 500 years ago. Home of Mount Teide, Spain's tallest peak, and to the popular beach resort of Los Gigantes, today visitors flock to Loro Park to see tropical birds, to Tenerife Zoo Monkey Park and to Parque Nacional Las Canadas del Teide's volcanic rock formations. The island is easily explored by car or with a "bono bus" ticket, which offers reductions on regular prices
Playa Olid Apartments
Avenida Ernesto Sarti 18
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38660
Spain
The sun-drenched Canary Islands lie close to North Africa and have an exotic flavour of their own. Hundreds of volcanoes, rolling sand dunes, rich forests and rugged cliffs dapple these seven Atlantic gems. Catch a ferry to Lanzarote. Ride a camel through volcanic Timanfaya National Park.
Tenerife is a rugged and volcanic island sculpted by successive eruptions throughout its history. There are four historically recorded volcanic eruptions, none of which has led to casualties. The first occurred in 1704, when the Arafo, Fasnia and Siete Fuentes volcanoes erupted simultaneously. Two years later, in 1706, the greatest eruption occurred at Trevejo. This volcano produced great quantities of lava which buried the city and port of Garachico. The last eruption of the 18th century happened in 1798 at Cañadas de Teide, in Chahorra. Finally, and most recently, in 1909 the Chinyero volcano, in the municipality of Santiago del Teide, erupted.
Playa de las Américas is a purpose-built holiday resort in the northern part of the Municipality of Arona, close to the adjoining Municipality of Adeje in the south of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. It was built in the 1960s beside the town of Los Cristianos and stretching northward to the Costa Adeje. The resort area features bars, nightclubs, restaurants, attractions, beaches, most of which are man-made from imported sand from Africa due to the darkness of the native volcanic sand. Playa de las Americas is a center of nightlife in Tenerife. Nightlife is spread around the resort and include the Veronicas strip, Starco Commercial Centre and the Patch. It's main road is Las Americas Avenue full of expensive and cheap shops. It is sunny all year through.
The Veronicas Strip It hosts bars and clubs over three floors in five buildings. Bars and clubs can be found in this area. It has a reputation of being very boisterous and can often be the subject of bad publicity due to fighting incidents, however recent regeneration and increased police presence has seen violence greatly reduced compared to the late 1990s.
Los Cristianos has a population approximately 11,500 (1991), situated on the south coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife. . The town centre is around the Los Cristianos bay, but is rapidly expanding inland with modern development. The town is a popular tourist resort and includes an important ferry port.
Unlike its bustling neighbour, Playa de las Américas, this town has a history that predates the tourist boom of the 1970s and 1980s. For many years this holiday hub was a quiet fishing village and evidence of its humble origins can still be seen in the typical Canarian architecture of the older buildings.