Tenerife Photos by Hetty
1st March 2018
We wandered around La Orotava, an old town founded in the 16th century by Spanish invaders; a wealthy town in its day
Puerto de la Cruz below
Former monastery
La Casa de los Balcones, built in 1632, now a museum
The town hall square, which they cover with sand art at a festival
Sand art
9 water-powered mills, originally for sugar, remain from the 17th and 18th century – one still working
A dragon tree
Birds of paradise plants (and other of our ‘house plants’) are in the gardens
Next – Cruz de Carmen to Punta del Hildago