Social events

Four events are foreseen during the conference.

Please fill in the form to select the excursion on Wednesday afternoon and let us know if you will take part in the conference dinner. To pay for Social Events, please print out the Credit Card Payment Form, fill in all the applicable fields, and submit it by Fax: +34 922 605 298 or e-mail: iaus283@iac.es, indicating the number of the accompanying persons, or by bank transfer sending a scanned copy by e-mail. Payments will NOT be accepted at the event (nor cash nor credit cards).

Sunday, 24

Welcome reception at the Conference Centre (18:00-20:30h)

Wednesday, 27

1) Visit to the Teide Nacional Park (10€ each)

2) Dolphins and whales (50€ each). This excursion is limited to 86 pax.

Thursday, 28

Closing dinner (50€ each)

Wednesday, 27^th

1) Visit to the Teide National Park (15:00-20:00h)

We have organised a tour of the spectacular National Park, recently accepted as UNESCO world heritage site. Buses will leave from a point opposite to the Beatriz Atlantis Hotel at 15:00h and take us to El Portillo, within the Teide National Park (altitude some 2.200 m). We will be met by tourist guides of the Park Service, who will lead us on a 2-hour tour. Afterwards we will visit the Park's Visitors Centre where we will see a film about the origin of Tenerife's volcanoes, and visit the botanical garden. Buses will bring you back to the hotel for a 20:00 arrival.

We strongly recommend that you bring sunscreen, hat and jacket.

2) Dolphin watching trip (12:45-19:00h)

We will leave the Conference Centre by bus at 12:55 (after last session) to the port of Los Gigantes. The boat tour will take 3 hours, from 14:30-17:30, and we hope to see dolphins or whales. We will see the spectacular cliffs of Los Gigantes. Lunch and drinks will be served (paella with chicken, soft drinks, beer, wine and water). Buses will bring you back to the hotel for a 19:00 arrival.

Participants attending the dolphins and whales excursion are encouraged to bring sunscreen, swimsuit and towel.

Thursday, 28^th

- Group photograph will be taken in the gardens (after the morning last session)

- Conference dinner (20:00-23:00)

Buses will leave the hotels at 20:00 to take us to Finca Zamora and will return before midnight.