Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands

It was a beautiful day in Tenerife. Initially was cool but quickly warmed up during on walk on the harbor front. Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands at approximately 800 square miles. The highest mountain in Spain is located here. El Pico del Teide is 12,200 feet.

Santa Cruz has around 220,000 residents. The housing is built going up the hillsides. There is a wonderful waterfront promenade that goes past the various points of interest including the opera house. One interesting feature is the permanent exercise equipment along the way.

Since it was Sunday, all the shops were closed. The big excitement in town was the Tenerife Santa Cruz Extreme. There were several different length races. They had a big screen set up that showed the runners.....going up the side of the mountain on trails. Not your typical marathon or 5k race!
And while we didn't run the race, we did walk over 15,000 steps today.

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Pictures as we were arriving in Tenerife

Finish

Line 

for the Extreme Marathon

Hard 

to 

see 

as photo shot of 

big screen, but these are the runners on the mountain side

 Some of the buildings in Santa Cruze

Street art

Opera House

Fred said

this was the Rock n' Roll Hall of fame. There are a lot of different faces of artists painted on rocks.

 Street tiles celebrating the famous carnivals held here each year.

They have neat exercise equipment

 all along the waterfront.

Our sunset tonight as set sail for Spain. We lose another hour tonight. Tomorrow is a sea day before we get to Malaga.