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Kilometer - KM |
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Altimeter total |
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Experience value (1-5) |
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Difficulty (1-5) |
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Immediately after the end of the town of Playa del Ingles, on the sunny island of Gran Canaria, you're going up to the Mirador de Fataga, a small pass in Gran Canaria with 480m. From the small platform you have a good view back to Playa del Ingles, on the other side you can see below until Artedara. If you especially in the summer, this tour does not start early in the morning, you will sweat a lot here already. After the pass Mirador de Fataga you drive on this bike tour again a few meters down to Artedara. Artedara is a Canarian beautiful oasis with palm trees in the otherwise barren landscape in the summer on the southern tip of the Canary Islands of Gran Canaria. After that it is only uphill for Fataga over to San Bartolome de Tirajana. The highest point in the cycle tour is about 2 kilometers from San Bartolome de Tirajana at about 970m. San Bartolome de Tirajana is a very beautiful, mountain village on Gran Canaria. Far away from mass tourism and the hotel castles can be very good here, the traditional culture meet in Gran Canaria. For an extensive rest there in San Bartolome de Tirajana some fairly decent restaurants. From Fataga I realized that I have chosen for this bike quite a hot day, because it was the Kalima. In Fataga I had to stop at a small gas station. To buy a liter of mineral for the remainder of Gran Canaria bike tour up to San Bartolome de Tirajana. The Kalima as a hot wind blowing in a few days a year from Africa to Gran Canaria. The air is heated to 45 degrees. If you experience this weather phenomenon for the first time, everyone is sure very surprised. One thinks - Oh great! finally, a small pinch. However, these prizes are still making a lot hotter. And then when I was returning back from San Bartolome, it felt as you were sitting in the sauna on an exercise bike. Cycling is on Gran Canaria pretty sweaty in those days. The whole bike tour of Playa del Ingles from the town of San Bartolome de Tirajana is situated in the small town of San Bartolome de Tirajana. It is 333km ², the largest municipality in Gran Canaria. Of the former volcanic mountains in the center of Gran Canaria, the municipality of San Bartolome de Tirajana, in the southern part of Gran Canaria, located to the coast. Also, the tourist areas, such as for example Playa del Ingles, Maspalomas San Agustin, or part of it. The natives of Gran Canaria are really nice people. I paid for the 4 liters of chilled mineral water only 4 euros. (Probably out of pity for a tourist who is so insane. Well, at least I was not the only one who could not miss cycling on this day.) |
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Gran Canaria is an approximately circular island (with a diameter of about 50 kilometers) in the Atlantic Ocean and is one of the Canary Islands. About 800,000 people live in Gran Canaria. Of these, only about half in the capital Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Thus Gran Canaria is the third largest and second largest in population expected, according to the population the Canary Islands. Where the population has increased sharply in the last twenty years. The highest mountain in Gran Canaria is the extinct volcano Pico de las Nieves, 1.949m. From the highest elevations in the center of Gran Canaria, the terrain falls away to the coast conical. Approximately 2.2 million tourists each year to spend their holidays in Gran Canaria. Especially the cities in the south of San Agostin to Puerto Rico, specializing in tourism. Who wants to meet away from Gran Canaria tourism, should a car or bicycle rental and explore the inland or north of the beautiful island. Gran Canaria is known for its many bicycle tours, which are also almost the whole year to travel. Due to the very uniform climate of Gran Canaria is a popular year-round holiday destination. The temperatures are in the summer at about 26 ° C to 30 ° C and in winter at 22-24 ° C. These temperatures, the good roads and the varied landscape of Gran Canaria, the island of eternal spring make Gran Canaria into a dreamland for all cyclists. No wonder if many of us emigrate from our "Siberian" area to Gran Canaria. Even many professional cycling teams use the best climate on the Canary Islands for a winter training camp. Around the island of Gran Canaria, there are many different micro-climates of continental to subtropical. Huge rocks alternate with tropical vegetation and desert areas. So it may happen that the peaks a bit of snow and you can swim only a few miles up the coast in the Sea, yet pleasant temperatures.
From the mountains to the coast, many dry valleys are present. On rare rainy days in Gran Canaria but it can come even to that which many seek the way to torrential rain to the coast. It is also why a lot of very wide reinforced stream bed created. The 1813m high Roque Nublo is the symbol of Gran Canaria. Approximate. 300km long, the old routes that are now used as hiking trails and on Gran Canaria where you can also get to know very well. |
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