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4CI2403 - The Atlantic Mountains in Spring

Thursday, March 21, 2024 | Peter Kuhn / Holger Homann | Europe | No comments

The Bikergang with the Orotava valley

Day01 - Welcome to Paradies La Gomera

Welcome to our Atlantic Mountains Extreme Tour on the Canary islands! And welcome to our international guests on this tour: Lisa and Frank from Canada, Jürgen from Germany, Mark from Switzerland, Alexandre, Fabio, Guilherme, Gustavo, Marino from Brazil, Chris and Tristan from the US. Taking the ferry to La Gomera and the rollercoaster starts!

The crew at Abrante viewpoint...

...and into the Laurel forest

Our beautiful lunch at the beach

And here is the group! And great vistas!

Surrounding the guy who discovered the Americas, Christopher Columbus...however, the Vikings might have been the (real) first to discover the (new) continent

After dinner we went for a drink in a small bar in San Sebastian and while outside La Gomera drowned in heavy rain we decided for another drink..

Day02 - Back to Tenerife and going to the green north

Our morning ride on La Gomera, clouds and sun taking its fast turns...

Our lovely couple, Lisa and Frank from Canada

at Roque Agando, magma leftovers from 14 million years ago

From the harbor in Los Christianos we went straight (not really!) up to the volcano El Teide. What a blast from sealevel up to 2.200m!

The amazing Teno mountains...

..and a relaxed coffee stop

After another blast up the mountain in the later afternoon...

some street life while checking in at our hotel

and a great dinner later!

Day03 - Discovering the green northsides of Tenerife and Gran Canaria

Our morning briefing on Tenerife...

...and a stop with a great view over the Orotova valley...

...und der erste Fotostop mit einer beeindruckenden Aussicht auf das Orotavatal

..followed another blast to Teide... what a ride up here!

Our astronauts close to the observatorio Izaña

Chris can't believe how beautiful the north-east of Gran Canaria is

Some relaxation after another day in motorcycle paradise!

And our dinner to start soon in our great hotel

Day04 - Restday Gran Canaria

Farewell in the morning to our hikers: Mark, Jürgen and Alexandre going for a hike today and later in the afternoon for a shorter ride on the motorcycle

On tiny twisty roads we reach the Caldera Bandama

A good coffee with freshly baked cakes

In parallel our hiking team went on a round trip through the beautiful mountains of Gran Canaria

Once you leave the touristic spots you are alone in the mountains...relaxing and peaceful and just the small things in life count

And our motorcycle team? Chris and Peter having a good time at the roadside..

Only Peter knows what Peter does..

Tristan making fun

...Alexandre presenting his gift from Chris, a lever brace from our ferry

Our boot beer develops..

...meeting other motorcycle riders

and a beautiful sunset from our outstanding location tonight

Alexandre brought a very good Japanese Whiskey which has to be tasted...and the crew does

Day05 - From GC back to Tenerife - another amazing day!

relaxed coffee in the morning before..

..reaching our ferry back to Tenerife

the Bikergang is looking forward to the ride down to Güimar

Lineup in Arico Viejo on the amazing TF-28

another coffee towards the end of our crazy ride on the TF-28...some might remember it as "La Fuentita" others as "leggins azules" )

Everybody safe and happy back at our hotel enjoying a drink at sunset

What a fun and happy tour with beautiful people combined with serious riding!
Thank you very much Lisa and Frank, Alexandre, Fabio, Chris, Tristan, Gustavo, Jürgen, Guilherme, Mark and Sandro for a great tour!
We hope to see you soon somewhere again!
Holger and Peter

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