Lift secrets Canadas del Teide for their unusual climate in Tenerife.
Canadas del Teide (spelled Cañadas in Spanish) have their own sun, wind, cloud and weather rules. You will find them for ever different in this outlandish world of no norm.Only the purity of its air and ultra violet rays will always be there. Take care, bring protection for it. Often, big clouds rise up from the the west coast to a height between 1200 and 1600 meters and hug the slopes. That's when you might wonder if intruding into Cañadas heights might be worth your while. The strong Tenerife sun will, however, not give all this moisture much of a chance. It, seldom, enters the altogether 47 square km embracing crater called Canadas del Teide. You know walks and climbs during noon times are no good but, you might be unaware that temperatures can go way above 30 degrees Celsius by Mount Teide and other spots or reach below freezing, any time from November to April. Out of sheer curiosity I checked out the weather by the OT Observatory Teide of Iñaza on its homepage with its webcams on a rainy day end of November 2008. I understood little by its telescope readings. Its Webcam, however gave a clue. The area of Iñaza looked bathed in gray color with no sun around.
As the Cañadas del Teide can be reached from there within a few minutes I wouldn't chance it to go there, you see... During extremely high snow fall, roads within are even cordoned off. Mountains with peaks of different height, length and formation let Tenerife sun and winds through in all sorts of ways. Some mountain banks offer shelter to everything growing between creeks while others are exposed to trade winds which are more often cool. The warm exceptions are Elysian winds coming down from the Azores. The safest and most pleasant way to experience climate in Tenerife in the Cañadas del Teide for the first time is to do a trip with a tour bus or with a rented car. A tour guide knows the Caņadas. He may foresee bad weather for a trip and isn't shy to deal with it. Rather do your own Canadas del Teide excursions in summer, spring or, early autumn, provided you have much time and experience with all parts of the island of Tenerife. Take a rented car for your own freedom to quit because of warm or cold you are not happy with. On general, though, climate in Tenerife Cañadas is very fair.
Escape into a protected land of rocks, lava, sand and unsurpassed beauty of an unusual kind where Tenerife sun may produce wonders of Canary pine growth, of agaves bending down from spike climber heights or, where miniature plant wonders hide lizards and butterflies. Generally, you will feel like driving within a movie once up there below mount Teide on its cauldron plateau. Take your time for easy go riding by a sometimes endless seeming chain of mountains bathed in sun light or even in snow. Please, return from Canadas del Teide to the biggest of all Canary Islands where everybody with rented or own holiday home in Tenerife loves this region of Spain by its highest peak. Back to Top of Page?
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