How can many millions of tourists be wrong? Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands. It has an island population that is almost half the total of inhabitants for the whole Canary Island chain. While part of the country of Spain, Tenerife is totally autonomous, with its capital in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The island is home to El Teide, the 3rd largest volcano in the world and Spain’s highest elevation. Centuries ago Tenerife was referred to as the Island of Hell by ancient travellers who may have experienced volcanic eruptions during their visit.

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What can be more fun than enjoying your summer vacations in an exclusive beach resort? Even for those who cannot afford spending a fortune on luxury vacations can visit resort towns and stay at budget hotels. The encouraging factor about these places is the fact that they offer a multitude of accommodation, dining, entertainment and fun options.

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In Santa Cruz is the Museum of Nature and Man, or as it is locally called the ‘Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre’. This is a museum that contains many significant archaeological finds and is considered one of the number one spots for repository objects from the Prehispanic Canary Islands. The museum can also boast that it has the best natural library out of all the Canary Islands as it has palaeontological, botanical, entomological and marine and terrestrial vertebrate collections, showing that it is no slouch when it comes to research and when it comes to what people want to see. It does this by integrating the Archaeological Museum of Tenerife, the Bioantropología’s Canary Institute and the Museum of Natural Sciences of Tenerife, the archaeological section of the museum was founded in 1958.

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