The main roads on the island are good but sometimes arched,steep and askew.
Many tunnels throgh the mountain ridges relieves and speeds up the journey
We hired a car from AlmaTurist at Centrocancajos for 24 €/day.
Inger was the driver (she drove like a local Palmero), with me in the co-driver seat reading the map.

Our first route/21 Nov

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Driving the northern part by a Seat Ibiza.
Los Cancajos-Santa Cruz-BarloVento-La Mata-Roque de los Muchachos Peak, 2426m AMSL
-Canary Astrophysics International Observatory-Caldera de Taburiente National Park- Los Llanos de Aridane
and by the main road LP-2 through the tunnel back to Los Cancajos. 8 hours driving, about 250 km.

Our second route/22 Nov

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driving the southern and central part of the island by the Seat Ibiza.
Los Cancajos-Mazo-LaMata-Funcaliente-India-Llano-El Paso-Los Llanos-LaCumbrecita, 1287m AMSL
-airport-Los Cancajos.

Our third route/23 Nov
driving the west coast and returning the southern route back to Cancajos by the Seat Ibiza.
Los Cancajos-Tazacorte-El Puerto-Funcaliente-volkano San Antonio-Los Cancajos.

Our fourth route/1st Dec by a VW Polo.
driving to north and west again to see places we wanted to return to.
Through Santa Cruz to Los Sauces to admire the huge arched bridge across a valley between Barranco del Aqua and Los Sauces.
It is said to be the largest single arch bridge in Europe, 355 m long and 150m high.
Back to Santa Cruz, throgh tunnel to west coast. Lunch at El Paso. Second visit to Tazacorte and Puerto. Across the island back
before dark to Los Cancajos.140 km, whole day.

We did not hire any more cars after this as we considered to have seen the most interesting places.