Gran Canaria ist adequate for activity holidays and sports.

Today we have two tips for ventures and leisure time activities on Gran Canaria.

Firstly we want to inform you about the website ofv Grancanaria-Excursions.com. On this website you find a huge offer of excursions all over the island. At Grancanariaexcursions.com you can book many kinds of day trips to different places and destinations.

In the range you find a trip to Las Palmas, on wich you can discover the capitol of Gran Canaria, with its famous quarter of La Vegueta full of shops and sights. For those who are interested in the history of Gran Canaria, we recomment the Ancient History Tour, starting in Guadedeque, where you can view some caves from the aborigines of Gran Canaria. This half day trip guides you to different viewpoints and characteristic places of the isle. Another excursion offered, ist the Gran Premium Tour. During this day trip you can view the giant pine of Teror (Pino de Teror) and visit other, interesting villages on Gran Canaria.

On the webpage of Grancanariaexcursions.com you can book day trips and half day trips on the island as well as boat trips on the Atlantic Ocean.

If you are interested at the excursions of Grancanariaexcursions.com, you can have a look on their website below:
Grancanariaexcursions.com

One of the most favorite trips for a holiday is a sport fishing boat trip. Therefore you find at your disposal a modern boat with space for up to six sport fishers. This boat is called Blue Marlin 3 and it is as well available for a private charter. You have the possibility to join a trip on the Blue Marlin 3 without being a sport fisher. A boat trip with Blue Marlin 3 can be a spectacular holiday experience and you can be witness of great fishing.

If you would like to know more about sport fishing trips on Blue Marlin 3 ahead the costs of Gran Canaria, you can join the website below: Blue Marlin 3

On Cosascanarias.com you find Audio/TV items, pets and pet accesories as well as goods for house and garden. For all who are interested in antiques, Cosascanarias.com sometimes has attractive offers. Cars and accesories are as well anounced on this webpage.

Another rubric on the page of Cosascanarias.com ist Real Estate, where you can find offers for properties and rental objects in the area of the Canary archipelago.

If you are looking for private contacts with people to share leisure time and hobbies, you can have a look at the announces on Cosascanarias.com.

Vacations, journeys and excursions are as well offered on this variable website. There is as well a category about employment on the Cosascanarias.com site.

Cosascanarias.com is lika a virtual market place on the Canary Isles, which offers you anything you can imagine.

If you are intersted or you are looking for something, you can have a look at their site: Cosascanarias.com

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 water slides, a “mini park” for kid, the two “Kamikaze” slides (meaning high speed), “Rapids” as special rafting adventures as well as “Aquamania”, “Congo River” and a swimming pool with artificial waves for relaxing.

Situated at a tropical oasis in the southern part of the isle “Aqualand” is not far away from Maspalomas and is open to the public all- season because of its advantageous constantly warm temperatures.

Without renting a hire car the amusement park is approachable by using public transport. So there are two bus routes, one of them line 45 (Playa del Ingles / San Agustin) and the other one line 70 (Puerto Rico / Faro Maspalomas).

naturist association has been demanding a nudist area at the ‘Las Canteras‘ beach in Las Palmas for years, an idea that is now being overthought by the local coastal councillorship. Last July 15th was the international “swimsuitless day” and due to this the canary islands naturist association (Aniscan) wanted to state their claim for a nudist area at the ‘Las Canteras‘ beach.

Paco Ojeda, the president of Aniscan, is greatful that the Las Palmas council is going through this idea, which he stated would be a great touristic appeal for those naturists who decide to stay at the south of Gran Canaria since there are only nudist areas in this part of the isle.

Well, good news for those who like to hang around the beach in their birthday suit

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 the forrest fires. Only a few selected people, the usual devotees, will carry some, and the rest will get green handkerchiefs at the same place where they would normally get their branch.

Wow…, i got no words for this…
That is a really really nice gesture.

to provide sunshine wherever it’s needed and we on Gran Canaria fortunately have plenty of it. The Red Cross organizes from this monday till mid september and initiative to help handicaped people enjoy the beach as much as we do. The “leisure at the beach program” gives people with mobility problems the oportunity to take walk at the shore or a dip of the ‘Las Canteras‘ beach in Las Palmas.

For those living in Las Palmas the program includes a “pick-up service” in the morning for those who need it and then from 11:30 till 16:30, several volunteers will help take care of them. Other activities are planed too, swapping the seashore with visits to different places of Gran Canaria.

Now that is one good news i think. Great guys!!

here on the isle, and everywhere else. The simpsons make it to hollywood in “The Simpsons Movie”. The official release date is this friday (27/07/07) but some theatres will screen it tomorrow. This weekend was the pre-release in the small town of Springfield, in the US state of Vermont, who won the airing of this movie in their town after a voting contest with 13 other Springfields’.

Yesterday was the premiere in L.A.(California) with about 300 invited guests. The Simpsons as a show for its own celebrate this year their 18 years of airing, with 400 episodes yet aired in 18 seasons, but “the Simpsons-franchise” celebrate their 20th birthday since it first started to see the light in April 1987 in “The Tracey Ullman Show”.

Whatever your age, sex, political orientation or religion is, i think this movie will be great!!

I’m back again yeeaayy!! hahaha
I have been very busy the last months and I just wanted to start over again with some good news.

Therefore, here I go. The ‘port of Mogan‘ and the ‘Amadores beach‘, both in the municipality of Mogan, have been awarded once again with the so called "blue flag", which is given by the ‘Federation for Environmental Education’ for excelcent quality, cleanliness, accessibility and security of their waters and beaches.

The other "blueflagged" beaches on Gran Canaria are: the ‘Las Canteras‘ beach in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the ‘Melenara‘ beach in Telde and the beaches of ‘San Agustín‘, ‘Playa del Inglés‘ and ‘Maspalomas‘ in San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
The other "blueflagged" ports are: the port of ‘Pasito Blanco‘ in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana and the only "blueflagged" non coastal area is the nature park of the ‘Dunes of Maspalomas‘, also in San Bartolomé

That’s nice, huh?? 27 beaches and 3 ports are "blueflagged" this year on the entire archipielago.

Don’t think it’s intentionally but a students life is busy while the exams last.
Please be patient, i finish this Tuesday and hopefully be posting again from then onwards

Thank you, Rayco.

Don’t get alarmed tonight,

if the entire island seems to be submerged in chaos with bonfires everywhere. We are neither under attack nor have been hit by a meteor shower.
If you don’t have nothing to do tonight, i higly recomend you wherever you are on the isle, but specially those near to the Playa del Inlges (San Bartolomé) and the Canteras (Las Palmas) beaches to visit these beaches around 12:00 PM.

Like every year in june, normally coinciding with days around the summer solstice, the night of the 23rd to 24th, we celebrate
“San Juan”. In this peculiar festivity there is a large fireworks spectacle and people make huge bonfires almost everywhere but the bigest are seen at the beaches. This was originally made to “strengthen the sun”, since the days will get shorter every day until the winter solstice.

You should witness this festivity, it is very spectacular.

May 30th is the ‘dia de canarias‘, that is literally, the canaries day. The ‘dia de canarias’ celebrates the aniversary of the first session of the canarian parliament held in 1983, 10 months after we were publicly declared an autonomous region.

A lot of municipalities decorate the streets and organize special events. I would like to focus on th municipality of Mogan, where there’ll be a lot of interesting things done. Today will be the official start of the ‘San Antonio’ festivities in Mogan. At the 30th there will be a craftwork and gastronomy fair held in the ‘Plaza de las Marañuelas’ in Arguineguin at 18:00 which is something i highly recomend you.

Have a nice ‘canaries day’

One of these days i’ll finish uploading all the info on the main page on appartments and homes to rent, hotels, cottages, etc… here on Gran Canaria. When i have everything uploaded i’ll post again with all the main links, but i think you’ll find it very interesting to have a look at its’ content.

Stay tuned for the upcoming info.

where i posted the different museums on the isle but with their spanish names, so i thought to myself they wouldn’t mean anything to you if you didn’t live here for a long time or even speak spanish.

Therefore here is a downloadable file for those of you who would like a printable version of the table. Plus, i added som extra info, a small description so you’d know what the museums are all about.
I hope its usefull: Museums

posted a comment the Vegueta post, asking for some information about some museums here on the isle. Since i think this is something interesting to know for everybody, i prefer posting it as a normal post rather than as a response on a comment.

Here are the different museums:

and you’re planing to take a trip to Las Palmas, i would highly recomend you the ‘old part’ of the city, Vegueta. In this beautiful area, which is being renewed to be only pedestrian, you can find the market of Vegueta and several restaurants in which you can enjoy typical canarian food. I personally would recomend you “El Herreño”.

The streets of Vegueta are very beautiful, have a look:

You can also find in Vegueta, the “house of Columbus” which is a museum about Chistopher Columbus.

the rest of the Tejeda pictures i posted yesterday. Oh and, by the way, Tejeda is highly recomendable visiting at any time of the year, specially after some rainy days when the weather is sunny again.

Thanks again to Josele, for the great pictures…

finally i manage to post again. I’m really sorry for this unmeant break. Things came together all at the same time, construction works at home, refurbishment, college works,… :S
I’ll hopefully be able to manage it so this won’t happen again.

As a matter of ‘reward’ i post you this awesome pictures a friend took for me of Tejeda, at our islands heart. I’ll post some now and the rest on another post, since they’re a lot.
I was just as astonished as you’ll be after going through them:

Josele, thanks for the pictures…

i had the chance to take a trip with a friend on a Cessna, flying over the south of Gran Canaria, and i have to say it was just great. And as you might have noticed it seems that i have always my camera with me…
Here are some of the best shots i took:

Thanks for the ride Krile…

Look at the amazing beach day we had today in “Anfi” (Anfi Del Mar, after Arguineguín in the municipality of Mogan). 28º degrees and no sign of any wind. Just glorious.
Doesn’t this look like the damn paradise …Sure it does!!

is the last carnival weekend. Last weeks saturday the carnival queen of maspalomas was elected. Cristina Mahuego was the winning candidate wearing a dress named "La Joya del Nilo" (the Jewel of the Nile) representing the "El Muelle" Shopping Center in Las Palmas.

Yesterday night took place the Drag Queen Gala and tomorrow will be the big carnival parade going through all “Playa del Ingles”, Gran Canarias‘ “touristic heart” in San Bartolomé.

As almost every carnival event we highly recomend you to have a look at it. You surely won’t be disappointed.

said goodbye to their carnival fests burning the typical huge sardine, made out of wire and paperpaste. Normally during the “sardines’ burying” all the participants in this parade dress like widows spending the entire parade crying out loudly.

This is our typical way of ending the carnival festivities and every city that has a carnival parade has this “burying” and is pretty funny.

If you have the oportunity to see this, i recomend it to you.

was the main carnival parade in Las Palmas which, according to the city’s “local police” mobilized about 200.000 people between viewers and participants. Pirates, policemen, prostitues, devils, men dressed as women, politicians, judges, attorneys and a huge et cetera lived up this years parade, which started at 17:00 at the “Castillo de la Luz” in the area known as “el Puerto”.

90 floats and decorated cars took part in this picturesque event, makin it come to an end around midnight. The animators on the floats also mentioned how well and ’sweet’ the parade was going in contrast to the ’sourness’ Tenerife had to be going through due to the controversy created at the Carnival Queen Gala which was directed by dancer Rafael ‘Amargo’ (which actually means SOUR).

Well, that unfortunately, will teach us not to bring people in who do not understand our carnival.

Las Palmas‘ night-life is completely stuck on carnival. The carnival queen has been elected, the “murgas” contest has already a winner and it’s still not over. This weekend, “the big weekend”, the most picturesque show is still to be run. The “judges” have made their decision, electing the 15 final candidates from out of 28, to be finalists and take part in this spectacular show, The Drag-Queen show.

It’ll be presented by spanish actress “Loles Leon” and will start at 21:00, at the stage of the “Santa Catalina” park. The show will feature the star performance of Gloria Gaynor.

I’ll try to make some pics and post them. This show is highly recomendable and you surely wouldn’t want to miss it. Just Great

more or less the first or second week of february, one of the most picturesque, atractive and traditional fests of Gran Canaria take place in Tejeda and in Valsequillo the week after. When the almond tree flowers sprout, announcing the begining of spring-time, the center of the island, where these trees grow, turns into one of the most beautiful landscapes you could possibly imagine.

Have a look at some pictures of it in Tejeda:

Thanks to Jose and his sister for the pics.

this will be a good news for you. The “Perez Galdós” theatre in Las Palmas that is being renewed is coming to an end. The 1016 new seats have been already installed are were presented by Las Palmas mayor “Pepa Luzardo”.

The seats have translators in which the spoken or sung text being interpreted will be shown in 7 different languages. This system and the stages’ motorized features are said by the architect in charge of the project to be the most difficult things to build. The air conditioning system and the curtains are already set up. When fnished, it is said to be the 3rd biggest theatre in Spain, right after Madrids’ “royal theatre” and Barcelonas’ “Liceo”.

Well then, nice to be known for that. The grand opening will be in April.

and i must say "what a deception". I truly expected more from it due to the good publicity they gave to it. If you’d like to go to the movies here, there’s a possibility. The "Yelmo Cineplex" cinema at the "Atlantico Shopping Center" in Vecindario(Santa Lucia) offers movies shown in it’s original language (normally english). So you might want to go, chek out the movies playing now:

Personally i’ve just seen “The Departed” and it’s very good, but i’ve been told that “A Good Year” is also worth seing.

the terraces will be structured in a different way. Due to past years access problem to them, the organization has decided to install 3 terraces. Two of them, “Can Can” and “Charlot”, in a closed space and the third one named “Boulevard” will will have no areal restrictions. “Boulevard” will then consist of 30 refreshment stalls, the so called “chiringuitos”.

Beside this, there will be 30 “chiringuitos” more of which (grancanariagay.com listen up ) 16 will be the as “chiringay” known stalls specially for the gay/lesbian comunity.
Also there’ll be 2 taverns, 3 fritter stalls, 9 candy stalls, 5 hamburger stalls and 5 other different stalls that’ll get along with the night life.

Have Fun!!

This last three days, the three phases of the “Murgas” contest had taken place at the “Santa Catalina” park in Las Palmas. A “Murga” (spelled:”moorgah” ) is a group of, normally 15 or more, people who dress up usually all the same and perform on the stage singing acid and critic lyrics dealing with politics as well as problems of todays society with a lot of humor and irony. Normally the songs are performed on popular songs, but with their own lyrics, just accompained with percussion and every members kazoo.

This constest is very popular on the canary islands and due to their acid humor and irony always something to laugh about, since normally if they don’t sing about politics in general (Spain-wide) “Murgas” from Las Palmas mock Tenerife and viceversa.

The finals of this contest are held tomorrow at 20:00 with free entrance at the “Santa Catalina” park. I’ll try topost some pictures asap. If you’re interested about it……drop by.

Here are the names and e-mail addresses of the golf-courts we have on Gran Canaria. Please, if you want to know something specific, you can always post a comment and we’ll answer as soon as possible.

Real Club de Golf De Las Palmas – cglp@realclubgolfdelaspalmas.com

Lopesan Meloneras Golf – melonerasgolf@lopesanhr.com

Campo de Golf Maspalomas – reservas@maspalomasgolf.net

Salobre Golf & Resort – reservation@salobregolfresort.com

El Cortijo Club de Campo – clubcampo@elcortijo.es

El Cortijo Golf Center – insular@airtel.net

Anfi Tauro Golf – golf@anfi.es

Have fun.

You like hanging around the pool all day long getting toasted by the sun? Sick of carrying home 2 buckets of beach sand? Got kids and tired of them brabbling all day long. Maybe this can help. AQUASUR, Gran Canarias‘ biggest water-slide park is near you. It has 13 attractions and all in all 33 slides, as well as several pools, souvenir-shops and a cafeteria within a surface of 90.000m².

Thanks to our splendid weather the park opens daily (except in case of bad weather conditions) from 10:00 to 17:00. Adults pay 22,50€ and kids pay 16,00€ and it’s situated on the road to “Palmitos Park” km 3. You can get here also by bus, taking line 45 or line 70, depending where you’re coming from.

Try it!! You and your kids will enjoy it.