The Mount Teide National Park on Tenerife is an area of geological formations - volcanoes, craters, vents, lava fields and interesting rock formations. The national park is dominated by Mount Teide. Its summit is the highest point in Spain, which surprised me. It is at 3715 m and is also the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic. It last erupted in 1909.
The week before I visited, Storm Celia brought snow to Gran Canaria. There was certainly snow on Mount Teide and the roads through the park.
First view of Mount Teide -
The Canary Island Pine forests -
The Teide Observatory -
We continued along and our next stop was at Portillo Alto, where we had a different view of the volcano, 2nd photo shows a crater the other side of the road -
We continued on to the Canadas caldera. On the way we passed fields of pumice with lumps of glassy black obsidian, and lava channels -
When we reached the main viewing area, the road and parking areas were absolutely packed with vehicles and people.
The lava fields of Las Canadas caldera. The lava is the 'aa' type, meaning it is rough and knobbly and hard to walk on.
We were so lucky with the weather. In fact we were above the clouds, but had to go through them to go back down to Santa Cruz
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