Canary Islands Warnings or Dangers


	Time sharing appartment selling	Tip Rating:

By albleroy

on November 27, 2002

You will sertainly be attacked by people who will try to take you with them or to put you in a taxi to bring you to the selling office. They will present you lottery tickets, and be sure you are allways winning and you have to pick up your price in the office. There they will try to convince you to buy 1 or 2 week live long vacation etc.......... Don't beleave this, most of this company's does not excist, they are, on the paper, located on the Island Man or Write. But only paper companies. A lot of people are in justice with those (let say) companies. Make attention and does not sign papers.


	At the INTERIOR of the island...	Tip Rating:

By spetterke

on September 8, 2002

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At the INTERIOR of the island there is NO danger at all.But if you stay at the touristic places,like Maspalomas,you should be carefull at night. Criminals comming from Las Palmas,they commit burglary,through your windows,standing open for the heath at night.There are also many pickpockets on the street,and people who try to search contact with you,using an evasion.LOOK OUT!


	Like all Canary islands, La...	Tip Rating:

By AndreasK

on September 8, 2002

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Like all Canary islands, La Palma is of volcanic origin. La Caldera de Taburiente is a gigantic crater with a rim of 28 kms and up to 770 metres high. In November 2001, exactly one year after my last visit, several tourists were trapped in this volcano and were killed during a rainstorm.


	A massive sandstorm blowing...	Tip Rating:

By nulain

on September 8, 2002

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A massive sandstorm blowing off the northwest African desert has blanketed hundreds of thousands of square miles of the eastern Atlantic Ocean with a dense cloud of Saharan sand. The massive nature of this particular storm was first seen in a SeaWiFS image on Saturday, 26 February 2000 when it reached over 1000 miles into the Atlantic. These storms and the rising warm air can lift dust 15,000 feet or so above the African deserts and then out across the Atlantic, many times reaching as far as the Caribbean where they often require the local weather services to issue air pollution alerts as was recently the case in San Juan, Puerto Rico. More info at: SeaWiFS


	On our last day at La Palma,...	Tip Rating:

By Tamani

on September 8, 2002

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On our last day at La Palma, we planned a day at the beach. Unfortunately it was storming and we were not even allowed to walk along the water... So, if you plan a relaxing beach holiday...go somewhere else.


	Local Police	Tip Rating:

By cheekymarieh

on September 7, 2002

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It's A Fair Cop

The police like to have their photos taken - make sure you don't upset any by leaving them out of the ction.


	You have to take care of the...	Tip Rating:

By r_vank

on September 7, 2002

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You have to take care of the other drivers, it's seems they have a dangerougs style of driving a car.


	This is a general warning but...	Tip Rating:

By Georgie_B

on August 27, 2002

This is a general warning but covers all travel I think, INSURANCE I can't stress enough how important this is, I know sometimes we think its a waste of time and money but I can assure you its not. I fell ill with Pneumonia while in Tenerife (how I will never know, something to do with going from air con to heat I think) any way I was hospitalised and on a drip for three days in a private hospital in Playa de las Americas, I was really well looked after and fed and I only shared a room with two other people. On being discharged from the hospital they passed me all the details of my three day stay to me for my insurance, I would have had to fork out £900 GBP to pay for this treatment so I think £30 was worth it!


	It is not advised to drink the...	Tip Rating:

By telebug

on August 26, 2002

It is not advised to drink the tap water although we did for tea and coffee. It has a high level of minerals in it to purify it. But bottled water is cheap anyway.