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Canary Islands Adventure

Canary Islands Adventure

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Experience nature and culture on a sailing cruise around the Canary Islands.

This voyage is a voyage through time. A lot of footprints of the past are waiting to be found. Today, these relics of the past, areas of natural beauty and volcanic landscapes come together to form a spectacular scenery.

Trip Name
Canary Islands Adventure
Days
9
Overview
Vessel Type: Tall Ship (Sailing) Length: 109 metres Passenger Capacity: 64 Built / refurbished: 1931 / 2011 Sea Cloud is a ship with a soul, imbued by the original owners, Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband E.F. Hutton in the 1930’s. The ship has played host to royalty, known service in wartime, and sailed the world over. She is a vessel of incomparable grace that harks back to the golden age of ship travel. Once you’ve been on Sea Cloud under full sail, you’ll begin your own love affair. Welcome aboard a legend Sea Cloud accommodates 58 guests in 28 outside cabins including two original owner’s suites that still feature original marble baths and fireplaces. At 360 feet she is an expansive ship with extensive public spaces on the top deck, where we luxuriate in deck chairs and watch the crew of 18 go aloft in the web of riggings to hand-set her 30 sails. Her dining room is hung with marine oil paintings of the period and accommodates all guests at once for a single seating. We’ll gather in the lounge each evening for Recap. Life aboard is a uniquely pleasing mix of elegance and informality—a return to the golden age of sailing in shorts and deck shoes. You’ll find all shipboard services impeccable.  Discover the romance of tall ship sailingExperience something many people don’t know exists in the 21st century—the romance of life under square sails. Discover the thrill of standing on deck as Sea Cloud gently glides through the water, her crew aloft in the riggings, running out and reefing sails. Settle in to your favorite areas on the top deck and bask in the incomparable experience of traveling aboard the finest tall ship to ever sail the seas. Lose yourself in an adventure that, in this day and age, is almost unimaginable. Please note deck and suite plans are indicative only and may vary slightly.

Itinerary



Day 1 - Day 1 - Las Palmas/Gran Canaria (Spain)
With its black volcano almost 2,000 metres (6,561 foot) high and endless white beaches along the coastline, the island of Gran Canaria displays a huge variety of landscapes. A "continent in miniature" with rugged rock formations, dense pine forests, dry valleys and reservoirs in the interior, lush vegetation in the north, shimmering dune landscapes in the south and weirdly shaped cliffs in the west. Almost half the island has been registered by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve. The capital, Las Palmas, is no less colourful, with its port and history stretching back 500 years. The showpiece of this historic old town is the magnificent Santa Ana Cathedral.
Day 2 - Day 2 - Las Palmas/Gran Canaria & Santa Cruz/Tenerife (Spain)
Even from afar you can see the impressive panorama with Tenerife's landmark, Mount Teide. Its peak is the highest in Spain at 3,718 metres (12,200 foot) and is often covered in snow. The Las Cañadas National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a high volcanic plateau at the foot of Teide, surrounded by a circle of rock that rises up steeply. Volcanic activity has created strange-looking rock formations here which are adorned with a huge range of colours and seem like a unique synthesis of nature's art. In contrast to this are the fertile valleys of the north, a barren, almost desert-like south and the island's vibrant capital city, Santa Cruz.
Day 3 - Day 3 - Santa Cruz/Tenerife & San Sebastián/La Gomera (Spain)
Many people consider La Gomera to be the most wildly romantic island in the Canaries. Rugged gorges, craggy hillsides, fertile valleys and evergreen cloud forests characterise the landscape. The Garajonay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, embraces the whole central mountain area and is an unusual little spot. Ancient bay trees, heather bushes as high as trees and metre-high ferns form a cloud forest where treemoss hangs from the trees and mosses cling to gnarled branches - a truly mystical natural spectacle which has existed for millions of years.
Day 4 - Day 4 - San Sebastián/La Gomera & Puerto de la Estaca/El Hierro (Spain)
Volcanic activity has created a wildly romantic and varied natural landscape. A black lava desert and strange rock formations with oddly shaped, wind-defying juniper trees in the south, orchards, vineyards, fig and almond groves in the north, lush green meadows and pastures in the high plateaus, and perhaps the most beautiful pine forests in the archipelago. El Hierro, the smallest and newest of the Canary Islands, is almost completely edged with steeply sloping, rugged cliffs and the spray from the surging ocean. UNESCO has designated it a Biosphere Reserve.
Day 5 - Days 5 & 6 - Puerto de la Estaca/El Hierro & Santa Cruz/La Palma (Spain)
The combination of small size and great height make the lush green volcanic island of La Palma one of the steepest islands on earth. The white houses in the island's capital shine out from wooded mountain slopes and the old town centre of Santa Cruz is covered by a preservation order principally because of its Canarian houses with their artistically decorated wooden balconies. The Caldera de Taburiente towers above the north of the island. With a diameter of nine kilometres (5.6 miles) and surrounded by crater walls more than 2,000 metres (6,561 foot) high, it is one of the world's largest volcanic craters. Behind the caldera is the cloud forest of Los Tilos. The Biosphere Reserve was extended by UNESCO to cover the whole island of La Palma.
Day 6 - Days 7 & 8 - Santa Cruz/La Palma & Los Cristianos/Tenerife (Spain)
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Day 7 - Day 9 - Las Palmas/Gran Canaria (Spain)
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Day 8 - Please Note:
Itinerary subject to change! Optional excursions are not included in the rate.

Trip Dates

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26-11-201804-12-2018EUR €0GTY Double Cabin
26-11-201804-12-2018EUR €0Category 5
26-11-201804-12-2018EUR €0Category 4
26-11-201804-12-2018EUR €0GTY Single Cabin
26-11-201804-12-2018EUR €0Category 3
26-11-201804-12-2018EUR €0Category 2
26-11-201804-12-2018EUR €0Category 1
26-11-201804-12-2018EUR €0Category C
26-11-201804-12-2018EUR €0Category B
26-11-201804-12-2018EUR €0Category A

Inclusions

    • Discover the island of Gran Canaria that displays a huge variety of landscapes.
    • See the impressive panorama of Tenerife's landmark, Mount Teide.
    • Visit La Gomera
    • the most wildly romantic island in the Canaries.
    • Explore El Hierro, the smallest and newest of the Canary Islands.

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