CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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341 km from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, about 6 h 18 of riding. It goes by way of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Teide National Park, back through Teide National Park and back through San Cristóbal de La Laguna. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 53 km this is Teide National Park Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Las Palmas is a city that does not look like most people's idea of a Spanish island. It is large, with nearly four hundred thousand people, it sprawls along a narrow neck of land between two seas, and it is the busiest port in the Canary Islands. The beach of Las Canteras, a long curve of sand sheltered by a reef, runs right through the city, and the old district of Vegueta, with its colonial plazas and the cathedral, recalls the days when ships bound for the Americas stopped here for water.
Read the complete Las Palmas write-up.
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Las Palmas is where the day begins. Next is San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
La Laguna was the first Spanish colonial town not built behind walls, and its plan, a grid of straight streets around open squares, became a model for towns in the Americas. It was founded in the late fifteenth century, after the Spanish conquest of Tenerife, and for centuries it was the island's capital, with a cathedral, convents, a university from the eighteenth century, and tall houses with carved wooden balconies. UNESCO listed the old town in 1999. The city is cool and often misty, because it sits at about five hundred metres on a plateau where the trade-wind clouds gather, and the fine drizzle that drifts in from the north-east is a local fixture.
Read the complete San Cristóbal de La Laguna write-up.
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San Cristóbal de La Laguna comes up 45 km in. Next is San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Cristóbal de La Laguna write-up.
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91 km in you reach San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Next is Teide National Park.
Spain's highest mountain is a volcano standing in the middle of an island in the Atlantic, and that alone makes Teide worth the ride. It rises to 3,715 metres above sea level, and from the ocean floor it is one of the tallest volcanic structures on Earth. The national park around it, listed by UNESCO in 2007, is a high desert of pumice, lava and strange rock towers, set in an ancient caldera, the Cañadas, and the road across it is among the most extraordinary on any motorcycle map. The Roques de García, a cluster of twisted, wind-carved pillars, stand in front of the mountain like a stage set.
Read the complete Teide National Park write-up.
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Teide National Park, about halfway.
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Read the complete Teide National Park write-up.
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Teide National Park sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Teide National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Teide National Park write-up.
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back through Teide National Park comes up 226 km in. Next is back through San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Cristóbal de La Laguna write-up.
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272 km in you reach back through San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Next is back through San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Cristóbal de La Laguna write-up.
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back through San Cristóbal de La Laguna, late in the day. Next is Las Palmas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Palmas write-up.
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The route ends here after 341 km.
Las Palmas → San Cristóbal de La Laguna is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
San Cristóbal de La Laguna → Teide National Park is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teide National Park → back through San Cristóbal de La Laguna is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through San Cristóbal de La Laguna → Las Palmas is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.