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Music festival WOMAD (World of Music and Dance)

Saturday, November 1st, 2008
If you would like to listen to faboulus live music from all over the world, you should not miss the famous World of Music, Art and Dance (WOMAD) festival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. WOMAD festivals take place in over 20 countries, on 4 continents. For the past eight years, the Parque de Santa Catalina - a city square close to spectacular the Playa de las Canteras beach - has been the heart of the festival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. During these 3-4 days, you can not only enjoy various live musical performances, but also workshops, stalls, night shows, DJ sessions, as well as children events. The original idea of Peter Gabriel – the founder of the festival, was to evoke interest in celebrating, and first of all, in sharing the world music, arts and dance. Now, the festival attracts crowds of fans and ...
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The other side of Gran Canaria

Monday, September 1st, 2008
Gran Canaria, being the most popular of all the Canary Islands, is known for its party-scene. However, tourists should not miss all the beautiful calm places the island also has to offer. Gran Canaria's landscape varies from desert, like dunes, over pinewoods to ~2000m high mountains in the centre of the island. The big variety of landscapes available on this relatively small island invites visitors to go hiking or even to discover by backpacking. Burg In additon, the cathedral of Santa Ana and the boulevard Calle Mayor de Triana in Las Palmas, the capital of the island, are very popular destinations for culture-interested visitors. The Palmitos Park near Maspalomas is a beautiful botanical garden which also acommodates monkeys, crocodiles, an orchid house, an aquarium with different species of fishes and coral displays, and Europe's largest butterfly house.

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Leak!!

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
As you might have heard, the night of sunday, a pipe which supplies the Unelco Power station with fuel-oil, the one situated at the entrance of Las Palmas, got damaged, causing a yet unknown amount of fuel-oil to get out and affect a shore stretch of 600m at the 'Las Gaviotas' beach near 'Jinamar'. The same night 'Disa', the company in charge of the supply, was alerted of this problem aswell as the 'Guardia Civil' and the local environment office. Though, there was barely nothing to do until the next day when the diggers started to clean the sand and the adjacent land, which luckily acted as a 'sponge', impeding huge ammounts of fuel-oil getting into the water. The cleaning works still continue today as this last two days the workers have been removing as much as possible with shovels and their bare hands. Tomorrow they will continue but with pressurizee ...
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