Path from Los Silos to Buenavista

Municiality: Los Silos-Buenavista 
Aproximate duration: 1:15 H (go and back)
Maximun height: 17m
Minimun height: 4m
Distance: 3 ,15km (go) 

Area Information

It is a path , where we go across the coast. In this zone we find natural puddles and rocky zone, where it is possible to see the different forms of the lava on having entered in touch with the water.

The predominant vegetation are the tuneras (Opuntia ficus-indicates), tabaibas (Euphorbia balsamifera) and cardones (Pachycereus pringlei). Also we find several greenhouses of banana plantations.

The Path

Description of the Path 

The drop of the path

We are in the municipality of Los Silos, exactly in the nearest of the municipal swimming pool.

In this point that possesses parking, we can leave the car. Or to come to the zone by bus (line 107 Santa Cruz-Buenavista); (line 363 Puerto de la Cruz-Buenavista): or by taxi.

We beggin  the path taking the track that one finds to the left side of the whale, a skeleton of whale, similar to the one which ran aground on the coast.

Lava and the path

It is common to find during the walk cars and bicycles,  so it is comfortable and wide enough to walk. It does not have great  slope and at all time we are near to the coast. It is a path trought a road, withouth signposting, but it is the own  track the one that is showing us  the direction of the same one.

Along the tour we are finding some puddles where it is possible to swimm (charco Don Gabino, Charco de los Chocos, la zona de los Esposos, etc)

Coast

We go in direction  towards Buenavista's municipality of the North, just the poing where one finds the beacon. Before coming to the same one we find El Rayo (the Beam), a hollow formed by the sea erosion (though it is said that it was produced by a beam).

El Rayo

In this case we finish in Buenavista's beacon, but there is a possibility of continuing for the coast of the above mentioned municipality and of managing to connect with the golf course, or, since in this case on having come to the Beam we returned to the beginning zone. 

On having been  in the coast, having remembered that in heat days we do not have zone of shade and it is possible to make a bit costly, but we can refresh with the bath, always with precaution.

During the path