Volcano Tinaguache – Costa Teguise
On Monday afternoon we decided to go to Tinaguache volcano (https://mapy.cz/s/moserasoha) which is just behind Costa Teguise and it was about 3 km from the hotel. It took some time to my friend and her kids to get prepared, so we were leaving the hotel at 17:00 and when we came to the volcano, the sun was almost going down. Although the volcano is only 226 m above sea level, it was quite big ascent to the peak and we were almost crawling on all fours, not because it was so steep, but rather to make sure the children do not fall because when we were standing, the wind was quite big. Because my friend gave to her 4 year old daughter only sandals, they gave up even before we did. We gave up in a while too because it was still about 500 meters to the top and it was clear that it will start to get dark soon. So we began to descend slowly, again on all fours, to be more certain that we would not fall or the foot would not slip.
After a while we saw a family with 3 children who walked with the same ease as if they were walking on a flat land and the man even had a child about 5 years old in a scarf. When I start to talk to them I found out that they were from France, so I started to talk to them in French. The man asked me where we had the car, so I said nowhere that we were walking on foot from our hotel. So they offered us to go together with them in their car. I replied that we could not fit in such a number. But he said that´s ok that we could squeeze. We said it is ok for us to go on foot. After a while they stopped us anyway with an offer to take us. So I suggested they take my friend with a 4-year-old daughter, and I, my son and my friend´s son can go on foot. They said it is ok to squeeze and that someone can go to the car trunk. They were so nice that they asked their two children to go into the trunk, we got in to back seats – my son was sitting on my knees, my friend’s daughter on her knees and her son was sitting alone. The lady was sitting on passenger´s seat with a child on her knees as well. So we were fully occupied – 10 people in a small car :p . Fortunately, it was only two kilometers, but since it was really dark after the descent from the volcano, we were glad to not have to go on foot.
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