Hi friends! We are a family of four. We left our stuff and our home in Sweden to work and travel abroad. Join us as we discover a world without Swedish meatballs, salt licorice and sour herring.
Let's be honest. These were (and should be today) islands belonging to Africa...They are just of the African coast.! Like many African lands, the islands were brutally taken from them...like the Americas....
I am 78% from Spain. I just found documentation of my paternal maternal ancestor lineage were from this island (1500s) My ethnicity has 1% North African. I now must add the Berbers in my heritage. I know little and will study love Genealogy
Se the dolphines in los cristIanos by kajak. Or watch the dolphine show in aqualand. Walk at the promenade near the water from los cristianos to LAS americas. Its amazing!
The video would have been much better if you had some pictures/videos of the night skies. It seems like you forgot what the main project was you wen to Mt Teide for.
Hello, how is Tove doing ? Hopefully recovered now 🙏 I’m suffering from pericarditis as well, it is a terrible pain and a long road to getting better, sending warm thoughts and just to thank you as well to having taken the time to document your journey.
we went up and saw absolutely nothing, being amateurs we had no idea that a full moon was going to light the place up to the same light pollution as a city centre... tour guide probably knew this full well already but obviously they still need to make money, so advice! make sure you check lunar cycle! do not go on a full moon if you can help it! still a good trip but a little ruined by the moon, had a better view of the stars out my bedroom last night in the centre of england
I’m of isleño descent myself. My ancestors left the island of Tenerife and settled in (Valenzuela) Dans La Fourche Parish, Louisiana in 1779. They would later settle in Victoria, Tx
But why did that host said they were dark haired & dark e yed with dark sk8n😢😮? The host should have b een an indigenous Guache NOT some White foreigner?
There are different accounts as to the looks of the Guanches. There are som “eye witnesses” that wrote down what they saw a very long time ago. And then we have the analyse of genetics that tell us another story.
Stop lying blond hahaha and they resembled Cro-Magnons sure bud.. Also, you forgot that Europeans had traded with them since before the foundation of Rome. Many Europeans permanently settled on the islands since the late middle ages. Let's not forget the bulk of them was not pale skin with blond hair either so stop lying to yourself. When Espinosa wrote his book it was century later after the invasion of Europeans. And the word rubia (blond) means many different things in old Spanish text. Btw western Europeans didn't have pale skin (white skin people) it was in low frequency in early farmers, but it spread in the bronze age. So light skin that we know in Western Europeans is very recent. Before this, all western Europeans had dark Skin so it would be impossible for Berbers to have light skin because the light skin DNA allele the SLC24A5 was introduced to East Africa from Europe around 5,000 yrs ago and spread with pastoralists from East Africa to others including San people, etc. Berbers are older than 5,000 yrs.
@@zackgalante4899Scientists really dont know how old white skin is or where it originated. Although some scientists are claiming it likely came from Neanderthals: More traits associated with your Neanderthal DNA. Its is known hair colour originated from Neanderthals and research shows light skin likely also originated from Neanderthals. Pigmentation genes for light skin in modern Eurasians such as POU2F, BNC2 and MC1R found in modern Eurasians, come from Neandertals and were retained according to climate. Adaptation of human skin color in various populations DNA taken from ancient Neanderthals shows that they also had genes for green, blue eyes, but also olive skin and dark hair and eyes. So white skin in modern humans could be as old as 48 000 years .
This is the real history: "In the 15th century the Spanish conquered Tenerife along with the other Canary Islands. The Guanches put up a great fight, but one by one the islands fell to the conquistadors. After colonisation the Guanches gradually disappeared. Many died of diseases that were introduced by the arrivals from mainland Europe" There is many people with their Dna in the islands...DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND FIND THE TRUTH...
@swedes-abroad I think the point being made is much broader, Canarians are sick of being referred to as no longer existing when this is not the case, since we are the direct descendants. The guanche culture lives on in us, much in the same way as any other culture in a contemporary context. Constantly referring to a dead or extinct culture is very offensive, and only serves as validation for further exploitation. I notice alot of foreign perspectives projecting this negative way of describing our situation through the use of poor language. When infact one of the best way to understand how guanches once existed, would be to study the local people. I mean common, this was literally only a few hundred years back, and the last historically recognised guanche clan of Tenerife only disappeared in the late 1800's.
Hello :) Beautiful video! I wonder if you have any advise of a nice high place to watch the starts at night, where I can leave the car closeby! Thank you!
Saludos desde la tribu Chaoui Amazigh, descendientes del rey Masinissa, Axel y Dehia, al este de Argelia, a los guanches, los amazighs de Canarias, nuestros hermanos de sangre y cultura.
I am Isleños of Louisiana… and although I am Hispanic, some Guanches DNA was discovered in my Genome… evidently my two main Canarian ancestors were a Spaniard and a Guanches 😂❤
Contrary to what many say the Spaniards never had colonies, but provinces that were given the same treatment as the Spaniards on the mainland...They mixed with the natives...Proof of it is the Dna carried by many islanders...There is a lot of disinformation about Spain and their provinces, NOT COLONIES...England had colonies, and the Dutch, French, Portuguese and others...Spain built the first three universities in the Americas almost 100 years before the first one in the USA, Havard in 1636...(…established by the Spaniards: the University of Santo Domingo (1538) in what is now the Dominican Republic and the University of Michoacán (1539) in Mexico.and in Lima, Perú)... and there were four more before the one in the USA...from 1551 to 1586 in Bolivia, another in Santo Domingo, Colombia, Ecuador, ...The Portuguese did not build any universities until 1912 and it was only one in Paraná...
Cariño disculpa pero desgraciadamente seguimos siendo colonia...y en cuanto a la mezcla de adn....a las niñas, niños, mujeres y hombres guanches eran llevados a la península y los vendían como esclavos. Un saludo desde Tenerife.
@@amparoalvarez9001uh, I'm mixed Yaqui, O’odham, Nahua, Swahili, Basque, Canarian, and Indo-European (including Spanish). I can assure you that the Spaniards had COLONIES, and no, the inhabitants therein were not treated the same as the PENINSULARES. Let alone those who were Brown or Black, always relegated to the bottom of the caste system. Yes, caste system. The Spaniards got into my DNA via rape and colonialism and a sense of racial superiority/privilege, just like the Dutch, English, and French. It's a “white” thing, predominantly. As a “mestizo” or “pardo” I can tell you my European ancestors were savage monsters compared to my non-Indo-European ancestors. Just a fact. Fact.
@@militantlymarginal You are only repeating the lies that Anglosaxons or protestants invented against Spain...True historians are telling a new history...
Stop lying blond hahaha and they resembled Cro-Magnons sure bud.. Also, you forgot that Europeans had traded with them since before the foundation of Rome. Many Europeans permanently settled on the islands since the late middle ages. Let's not forget the bulk of them was not pale skin with blond hair either so stop lying to yourself. When Espinosa wrote his book it was century later after the invasion of Europeans. And the word rubia (blond) means many different things in old Spanish text. Btw western Europeans didn't have pale skin (white skin people) it was in low frequency in early farmers, but it spread in the bronze age. So light skin that we know in Western Europeans is very recent. Before this, all western Europeans had dark Skin so it would be impossible for Berbers to have light skin because the light skin DNA allele the SLC24A5 was introduced to East Africa from Europe around 5,000 yrs ago and spread with pastoralists from East Africa to others including San people, etc. Berbers are older than 5,000 yrs.
@@michaelcullen6375 It's all factual and I can easily prove it bud 👍🏼. Blond hair North Africans do not and never existed. Modern-day Berbers are not the same dark skin people that invaded Spain. Today's Iberian peninsula spain portugal has a high concentration of Berber, arab/Jewish DNA. If you see modern-day Berbers from Northern Morocco, Algeria with blond hair it's because of the Barbary slave trade and native Iberian converts that were kicked out of Spain/Portugal by the king and queen. Millions of white European women and men were sold into slavery in North Africa. Places like Morocco have a high European admixture on their mtDNA mother's side due to the recent migration of European women as slaves. Do research
That's not entirely true, during the first colonial invasions, the guanches were described as 14ft tall giants, black in colour and monstrous in appearance. Later, guanches were being described as mixed tanned and light demographics. Even later, descriptions of certain guanche figures were described as light skin/ light hair. From this, one could conclude that the lower ranking members exposed to the sun where tanned, and leaders who did not work the land seemed more fair skin. There hair course were a mix of dark to light, which is typical of North Africa in general. If you want to go further back, blonde hair originates from East Africa.
B.S. Spanish were not exterminators...The British were the biggest exterminators everywhere they went they left no one...In America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and on and on...The Spanish did not colonized, they created cities, shared their culture, mixed with the people...They mixed with the Guanches...Many in the islands have their dna...The Guanches died of the diseases the Spaniards brought with them... This is the real history: "In the 15th century the Spanish conquered Tenerife along with the other Canary Islands. The Guanches put up a great fight, but one by one the islands fell to the conquistadors. After colonisation the Guanches gradually disappeared. (NOT TRUE) Many died of diseases that were introduced by the arrivals from mainland Europe" Many carry their Dna today...
Hi, is there much that a 7 year old can go on? I don’t fancy having tears all day if she is too small for everything. How much are fast track tickets ?
Hi! Thanks a lot for your concern! Tove have slowly but surly start to recover. Some time left until she is fully back to normal, but she is getting there. Thanks again for asking!
Hi, love your video. I'm going to visit Tenerife in 10 days, I would be grateful if you could recommend a place or an area to stay which is close to the Mercad de African Market in Santa Cruz. Thanks
Hi Angel! Thanks for asking! So good to hear you are going to visit Tenerife and Santa Cruz! I’m not aware of any particular place close to the market, mainly since we stayed in Los Christiania most of the time. I wish you all the best and enjoy your stay!
@@swedes-abroad thanks . i have seen improvement thankfully. I watch different alternative approaches and they say to fix my circadian rhythm and getting sunrise exposure and grounding/earthing. I will start this and recommend this for you guys as well. Good luck!
If I want to do some stargazing in Tenerife, what would be the best time of the year? Would you also say that stargazing on top of a mountain provides peak experience?
Thanks for your questions! If you are to check out the stars, you are up for something special! Best time to go is not so much connected to a season, rather, it’s more about weather. Try to go when there is no clouds, or at least when they are low level, because then you can get above them for clear skies. Also it’s best to go when there is no moon. (Unless you want to specifically check the moon out) it will be distracting as it shines. I sure recommend getting up high above the clouds. It’s easy, just drive up towards Teide! All the best!
