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About Mirador de la Tarta
To have one of the most incredible views of the Teide flanked by the spectacular sea of clouds and that is often located at the foot of the mountain next to the pine forest of Parque Natural de Corona Forestal you have to stop at the Mirador de la Tarta. This viewpoint has this curious name because from it you can see a cut with several stratifications that resembles the different layers of a cake. As mentioned from here you can see the sea of clouds, but when the trade winds allow you can see the Valle de la Orotava, but without a doubt, the game of layers with different colors that can be observe, of different materials expelled by the volcano make this point a place of obligatory stop.
Each of the layers that can be seen in the Mirador de la Tarta corresponds to a different eruption, a white layer resulting from a violent eruption that detached pumice stone at high altitude and that the wind dragged to the area. On the other hand darker layers that form basaltic picto, emitted by nearby volcanic cones and fruit of a softer eruption, a black and reddish layer other.
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