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Amusement park “Aqualand”

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Originally there were two amusement parks focussing on water fun at Gran Canaria: the so called “AquaSur” as well as the “Ocean Park”. The last one was located at mid Maspalomas, but it is out of order nowadays. The “Aquasur” finally turned into “Aqualand” in the course of the years and makes the largest leisure park of the isle by now. Covering a surface area of about 90.000 square metres this theme park aims at offering a great amount of water- based attractions such as for example more than 30 water slides. There is a certain area addressing at children which also contains a great variety of the park’s mascot, the “Aqualand”- ape. Another amazing attraction is the famous “Tornado”, a closed flume entertaining visitors by presenting light- and sound effects while sliding. Furthermore there are tourist features like the “Mamut” for four persons, the “Crazy Race” with nine parallel ...

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Pictures of yesterdays tragedy

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Here you can see the covered bodies of immigrants after their death was certified and several agents of the 'Guardia Civil', two of them recovering a body from the waterat the 'Risco Verde' beach in Agüimes. You can also see the half sunk 'patera' and it being pulled out of the water later on and the enormous efforts done supported by the rescue helicopter and the sea rescue patrol boat. Really sad images that immigration gives us almost every day. :(

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380 million € Runway

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Plane

Not a 'million dollar, baby,' ;) but 380 mil. € is the estimated budget of the project for the new Gando Airport Runway. The president of the Gran Canaria Council, José Miguel Pérez, advanced yesterday some details of the project that soon will be presented by the 'furtherance ministry'. The time-frame is estimated to be 38 months but the beginning hasn't been determined yet. The new runway will be connected to the actual one and will have a length of 1.100 meters and will also be suitable for class F aircrafts, like the new Airbus A380. This new runway will make Gran Canaria a very important enclave for trans atlantic flights. Well..., though good for us on the one side, the environmental impact of this will be also considerable.

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“The branch” without branches

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

One of the most famous, if not the most famous, 'fiesta' on Gran Canaria is "La Rama", which literally means 'the branch' but is at the same time short for "La Bajada de la Rama" or 'the descent of the branch', is held every year in August 4th, which would be tomorrow. Traditionally the celebration is about going up the valley of Agaete dancing to the sound of a marching band, getting some tree branches, previously taken from trees in the 'tamadaba forrest', and taking them down (always dancing) to the 'port of Las Nieves' (the port of Agaete) to Our Lady of Las Nieves, who reside in the port hermitage, as an offering, after hitting the ports' waters with them. The mayor and the different neighbourhood associations of Agaete have decided not to carry branches this year, as a gesture of solidarity for the catastrophe suffered by the island due to ...

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Pictures

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

As i sat yesterday evening at home, listening to the constant radio reports about the fires i didn't realize how close the fire was to Maspalomas until my mother gave me a call and told me: "...go out and take some pictures of the red sun...". So i took my cam and went outside and saw that the smoke was almost over us. The smell of burnt wood was impossible to go unnoticed:

I couldn't really see much, so i took my car and went to higher grounds, i made it a few kilometers above 'El Salobre', the neighbourhood over 'El Tablero'. Here is what i saw: