Teneriffe, Canary Islands

Our last stop was the Teneriffe, Canary Islands. We decided that we wanted to see if we could get a camel ride today since we didn’t get one yesterday, so when we got off the boat we asked a taxi driver and found out there was a place on the island that had camel rides. We walked to the bus station and got a ticket to go to the city where they give camel rides. We were a little worried that we wouldn’t have enough money to take the camel ride, but we had already bought our bus ticket, so we decided to head to the place and hope that we had enough. We made it there in fairly good time and had about an hour and 15 minutes before the bus that we needed to take back would come by to take us back to the city we needed. We found out it would cost 8 euro for a camel ride each, but we only had 12 euro and 15 American dollars. The camel place wouldn’t take American Express, so we didn’t know what to do. I was just going to take the ride, but at the last minute, Jake found someone that was willing to give us 10 euro if we gave them our 15 American dollars. We were both able to go on the camel ride. They had Arab garb there for us to wear while we rode the camels. It was fun. It was a really bumpy ride. Jake and I rode one camel, and they had to put a bag of sand on my side of the camel to even out the load. The ride lasted for about 20 minutes. I’m glad that we were both able to go. When we were done we found out that we missed the bus by about 5 minutes or less, so we decided to try to hitch hike to the next town to catch a bus. Some people that were riding camels with us picked us up and took us back about half way to where we needed to go. They were really nice. So because of that we didn’t need one of the bus tickets that we bought. We were able to sell it while we were on the bus back to Santa Cruz. We got back there with about 45 minutes to spare before we needed to be back on the boat. We had about 5 euro in change that we had to spend because this is our last port and the banks won’t take change and give us dollars, so we went and bought a spoon for my mom and some fingernail clippers. Our fingernail clippers were lost, so we really needed some, so they are our souvenir from the Canary Islands. We were glad that we were able to get our camel ride on our trip.