Gran Canaria Experience

Description

Taking the most comfortable and fastest ferry from Tenerife to Gran Canaria, the Fred Olsen Express, we arrive at Puerto de las Nieves in Agaete and head straight to the historic district of Vegueta for a walk through its streets full of culture and history.

After exploring Vegueta, we’ll head to the Poema del Mar Aquarium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. This impressive theme park, which opened on 17 December 2017, will immerse us in the majesty of nature in three incomparable environments: jungle, beach reef and deep ocean. In its 12,000 square metres, we will find 35 marine and riverine ecosystems from all over the world. With its name and architectural lines, the aquarium pays tribute to the Canarian artist Néstor de la Torre, a leading figure in the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, and his work ‘Poemas del Atlántico’ (Poems of the Atlantic). Here we can admire the largest curved glass in the world (a methacrylate weighing 140 tonnes, 36 metres long and 7 metres high), which displays around 350 species from 35 different ecosystems, including sharks, piranhas, freshwater rays, crocodiles and sea dragons.

Our last stop will be at the Arehucas distilleries, where we will learn the secret of the uniqueness of its rums, a journey through the history, tradition and know-how of Arehucas. During the visit, we will explore one of the oldest rum cellars in Europe, made up of 4,308 American oak barrels, some of which are signed by famous personalities. Here we will learn about the process of making this drink and enjoy a tasting of rums and liqueurs to end the day with a good taste in our mouths.

After this experience we will return to Puerto de las Nieves in Agaete to take the ferry back to Tenerife.