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Teneriffa 2012 - part 8

Güimar District 2

Continuation of the Barranco de las Cambuesas, with a sometimes subtropical vegetation

Film: the steep road riding down in Arafo (1minut, 35 seconds)

Barranco de las Cambuesas

 

Güimar, the famous pyramids of Guimar. The proposition of Thor Heyerdahl was that this pyramids are build by the Maya Indians,
or at least learned to build, and not by the first Spanish farmers. Therefore he had different arguments: farmers
simply don’t build terraces in the form of pyramids, the old terraces never had sharp corners, the sides where never blunted,
farmers don’t build ceremonial staircases, the upper platform is in stone and therefore not suited for cultivation,
the sides of the pyramids are perfectly directed to the solstice. Moreover old vases and other utensils where found on Teneriffe
totally resembling old South American vases and utensils equally old.

 

 

 

Three replica’s of the ships build by Thor Heyerdahl to redo the routes of the old cultures long before the Christian era:
from Egypt to South America, from South America to the Easter Islands (Rapa Nui) Teneriffe en Sicily, and the merchant route
along the coast of the Pacific Ocean.

 

Pyramids of Güimar, the gardens

 

 

 

Pyramids of Güimar, the gardens: aloe