My Christmas time on the Canary Islands

Christmas is a family festival, but as I’m here on Tenerife I experienced it this year pretty different. It was really intensive time with a lot of different things to do. This time I will show you my Christmas through photos.

The season stated on 16 of December when we made a Christmas concert in the old age home that  we  are having a voluntary project for the young people form La Laguna. On the next day all of the ladies were still smiling and singing christmas songs. 

This magnificent day finished with a circling around the North Part of the island and having un amazing time with our friends.

The alternative christmas tree that we found in one of the towns is the sign of our Christmas here on the Canary Islands. 

Almost whole month on the streets of La Laguna every night there were different  group of people walking and singing Crhistmas songs.

The city was decorated really beautifu.

Really interesting part for me were the BELENES. This so nice different size cines of the birth of Jesus that we don't have in my country. We also were on one exhibition of belenes form different countries. Each country had his typical features in the apparence of the statues. 

One of the best things to be on island like Tenerife for Christmas was that on 23 of  December we were on the beach.

Our Christmas Eve day started with one really intersting activity that I organized with my organization AURI and Loro Parque, the local zoo. We let one turtle which was on a treatment in the Loro Parque in the ocean.

The day finished with our small Christmas Eve International dinner. As always after the abundant dinner wew went to sleep even here the tradicion is that the young people are going out on a party after the family dinner.

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On the 25th evening there was one wonderful Christmas concert in Santa Cruz from the Philharmonic of Tenerife. Yhis was my first classical concert and I'm really amazed from it. 

On 28th of December we participated in the First Youth Day organised to inform the young people about the youth organizations and their activities in the town. We were representing the Youth in Accion Programme and EVS.

This day we finished going out with friends and having a typical dinner and going to dance after this.

Between the typical resturant - Guachinche, and the disco we past to see Brendan in the bar of his father and he made us helping him with his song. It was really funny.

On the Ney Years Eve we were on a great party where we tried different traditions for this day and it was really funny. 

Shortly this is my Christmas time here on the Canary Islands and now I'm waiting for one even more importatn festival "Los Reyes Magos"on 6 of January.