What to see on Gran Canaria: awesome old south cities
It includes such cities as Aguimes, Ingenio and Telde.
Everyone who arrives in Gran Canaria visit this area, since the airport is located here. The first town on our way was Aguimes. Small, just a few streets, but quite picturesque and interesting among others. We stopped at the top of the serpentine to shoot the sunrise before the entrance to the town.
The Canarian small towns that are not the resorts, but only for a day visit, are sincere, friendly and trusting. Here, for example, you may see ordinary buns in the bags that baker delivers before dawn to all his customers. We just caught him by this) Long buns for some, burger buns for others, for private houses and bars. This is so cute!
This town is unique in its architecture among others. If there are similar houses anywhere else, they are not in such amount. And these homes are unique due to unusual tiling, whose textures can be with round and rectangular stones.
Gran Canaria is an amazing island. Here you can feel yourself in several countries. In this town, for instance, somewhere in Eastern lands, due to the presence of this camel, for instance.
The Canarians are very friendly people; it’s especially felt in these small towns, where everyone you meet is greeting you friendly: Hola! It’s a small deed that makes the world kinder and friendlier. The very pronunciation and sounding of the word Hola (heard as O-L-A) as embraces, as from special offers: Free hug. You can notice as the island guests from other countries also try to greet everyone they meet, but not all) We also greeted this way when climbed up the Teide volcano, walked in the small towns. And in large cities or resorts, there’s no such habit, unfortunately. And it would be so nice to always greet everyone, merely such a simple OLA.
In the town of Aguimes you can find iron sculptures suited to every fancy: people working and animals waiting behind every corner. Although you can walk across it in 20-30 minutes, since it’s a small settlement, but you may hold on near each wall or a small street out of curiosity.
Quiet morning, it was getting light. Only one bar was open and cleaners were sweeping the streets and greeting.
We spent a little time there, and went to another – Ingenio. But this city was unphotogenic in our opinion, so we didn’t stay there for long)
We didn’t shoot the third town Telde, just sat down at a local coffee shop, although there’s no such meaning of a café as we are used to, mostly Bar Cafeteria with dark rooms, fast food and gambling machines. We enjoyed two clients absorbed by their morning reading, who stuck their eyes to the newspapers, so we could take pictures from any angle. They would probably noticed only if we put the camera in front of the newspaper)
These places are so local that the owners, who, probably, are the waiters, don’t even speak English. That’s how we tasted Barakitos for the first time – national Canarian coffee, which is made from espresso with the addition of liqueur and condensed milk, as well as citrus peel, such as orange or lime. Friendly woman didn’t understand the word cappuccino, and possibly she didn’t have it on the menu, but said okay, and brought us delicious coffee. Our advice: it’s better to order local and well-known Barakitos here on the island than cappuccino, which may be not as the one served in Europe; we have tasted many)
And the following amused us: when we asked a wifi password, the waitress didn’t bring a paper for a while, as it turned out, she had to climb up somewhere to the router and write off a very long password, which, perhaps, no one has never asked before. It’s important to read a newspaper, as those two gentlemen did.
There’s a shopping district right near Teide. A giant four-storey moll El Mirador and an outlet center without a roof, where it’s so unusual to walk, since it’s always sunny here, so they can afford it. Las Terrazas Outlet with well-known brands of clothing. As for El Mirador – we felt like in American films, where stores are of gigantic size, where the very stores offer bags (like carts in the supermarket) so that you could chose to try on more than hands can hold, huge shopping lines and many offers. Everything smells, is shining, glowing, calling. 90% of all offered to people is actually of no need!
IKEA, MediaMarkt, Leroy, and probably lots of other things are also located in this district, but on both sides of the highway, so you cannot avoid long rides and junctions) So, if you need shopping on Gran Canaria, you should go towards Telde – between the capital Las Palmas and the airport.
With love, RH.
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