We awoke early this morning as I had booked us a kayaking excursion that was located in Los Cristianos , which was over an hours drive away. We made our way through the windy mountainous terrain of Tenerife, thankfully getting stuck behind a semi, as Nicks driving in our tiny Volkswagen Polo, is as terrible as his driving in his Subaru WRX – too fast and clunky for me. We arrived in Los Cristianos confused as to the location of Xplore Tenerife, but finally found it located down near the water under an apartment complex. We grabbed our wet suites, goggles and paddles and made our way to our double  kayak at the waters edge.

I told Nick based on past experience I had prepared myself not to see a single dolphin.  I’m glad I had prepared myself to be disappointed, because we experienced more dolphins swimming around our kayak than I could have hoped for. It did take awhile to reach them and in my opinion the stupid boats kept scaring them off, but they were there. One even swimming within 10 feet of our kayak. We paddled around with them for a while before making our way over near the cliffs that plunged into the sea. Jumping out of our kayaks to now go swimming with a turtle. There were a ton of divers here so needless to say the turtle was attracted to their bubbles and often times could be seen riding on their backs. He got up close and personal. After swimming around, or in my case, flailing around because of the cold water, we made our way back to our kayaks making our way back to shore. 

After we cleaned up, we walked nearby to a bar called Charlotte, knowing everything in the area was going to be touristy, we obviously chose this place for its name. I had a burger and cerveza, Nick, a club sandwich, and we shared chips and guacamole. 

Nick had marked on his map a winery that was just north of Los Christinos, and it was literally north, straight up the mountain via the tiniest, windiest roads ever. Thank goodness there was alcohol at the top. We found the winery to ourselves and when I asked if they got a lot of visitors, he stated that they generally had a lot of people pass through, sadly by the time we arrived it was poring down rain. The climate change within Tenerife is unreal. One minute is sunny and hot, the next raining and freezing, nick tells this is what happens when you go up 6000 feet within 30 minutes.

After enjoying a bottle of vino blanco in what felt like an abandoned winery, we grabbed another bottle to enjoy back at the apt, we headed to locate Los Gigantes, giant cliffs that plunged into the water. These were one thing that I had marked in my map and while we had to drive out of our way to see them, I’m so glad we did. They were quite impressive, while nothing special they were beautiful!

We then headed to to find Tenerife’s oldest village, winding down the smallest, steepest roads we continued to drive right past it as it was raining, and I’m guessing that nick had no interest in stopping.

Knowing that we had another early am flight we headed back to the apt to get packed up. We did decide to go grab something to eat in one of Tenerife’s only open restaurants, we set out on our walk to quickly turn around realizing that neither of us was really glad hungry and the place was farther up hill than we realized. Therefore we ended back at the German bar by our place to find even more Germans than the night before. We shared a plate of bratwurst and fries and each had a beverage before calling it a night.