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Article: Beach Baroque
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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Theme parks Families flock to Tenerife to go wild in its weird
and wonderful theme parks. By Ben Ross
Mother Nature has provided ample evidence of her ingenuity on
Tenerife, the Canary Islands' largest chunk of planetary real
estate. Clearly, her first decision was to think big: Teide, the
island's huge central volcano, stretches a mighty 3,718m from the
Atlantic. Then, she went a bit Baroque: the black lava rock pools in
Garachico on the north coast, for example, and the peculiarly long-
needled Canarian pine tree. Finally, she provided some exhilaration:
the dramatic ridges and valleys of the Anaga range in the north, the
dazzling azure seas that hug the island's shores. Oh, and the ...