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Day 5 - Vamos a la playa

Today the sun was on our side most of the day. We woke up early and went to check out Playa de Los Christianos. It was only 20 minutes from our place.
This beach has golden sand and is close to the port with the same name. Next to this one is another beach, more beautiful from my point of view: Playa de Las Vistas. We had breakfast to a terrasse with balcony. After I finished my breakfast I went for a swim.
I got almost one hour to recharge my batteries on sun. What can I say?! The water is not so warm but the hot sun helps after you get out.
Then we went to Siam park, an aqua park. Yeah.. Not my thing. I don't like adrenaline.  We didn't stay too much because the water was only 2-3 degrees warmer than the ocean water. I checked out the beach. They have artificial waves :)). A little bit of tan, a ride on a river, where you are pushed by the water. If most of the way it's in slow-motion, before the finish there is a slide. For the pros that slide is low level but for me it was too much. The nicest part of this was that I ended up under an aquarium with sharks :)). The other attractions of the park were to high level, so no thanks!
They found that in Adeje there should be a beach club with heated swimming pool, so we went to check out that one. As I was suspecting, the water was not that warm but we stayed anyway. Because the weather was not so good (a little bit cloudy and windy) the entrance was free. We were the last ones to go. We caught the sunset here. The place had a nice view with the swimming pool on the edges.
After that we went back to the usual place, that Irish pub. Tonight was singing the same player from  two nights ago. I think I was the youngest person in the room, the average age was 45+. I am impressed they all still have the energy to enjoy life and good music. Cheers to that!
Playa de Los Christianos 

Playa de Las Vistas

Sunset on Costa Adeje

A minion with the girl from Frozen

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