Pyramids of Güímar — Attraction in Güímar

Just looking at the various islands out in the Atlantic on google maps and reading their various histories and reviewing both their internal histories, but also their interrelatedness to larger history in general. When I saw the word Tenerife I seemed to recall pyramids, and lo, I have now studied this set of islands as well. The stepped pyramid is a worldwide phenomena of parallel solutions to; man's desire to form social groups after the advent of farming permitted sedentary habitation. We then required social order to achieve this social desire. Uniting in common social purpose, under a system of social order puts the smart or strong at the top where rules of behavior must be promulgated for the common good. Consider also that they as the leading society members having possibly had more time, capacity, and desire to maintain order are probably carrying more of the verbal history and accumulated knowledge of the group, and are understandably expected to provide explanation of the observable. What leaders cannot explain outright they naturally attribute to physical actors that usually take on a human character much like we view animals as characters intent upon individual courses of independent action even though they as we are part of a larger ecosystem. Examples of theses common historical misunderstandings are wind, thunder, rain clouds, stars, planets, comets etc. that can be observed to be powerful actors, uncontrollable actors, independent actors, in motion, alive, acting out a life of their own we could not yet understand. So, we understood these more powerful actors in terms of our own modalities. We gave them outsized human emotions, and personalities based on their observable outsized power over our lives. We built them, and those that appeared to understand them homes on high from whence our world, and lives could be ordered because it meant our genes could survive and win in the great competition of life. Man alone seeks control of his destiny through understanding the true nature of his universe such that his seed shall survive. The sweep of history is wide, but its depth, although profound at four billion years brings all that we observe and are aware of as myriad separate entities and details back to one point particle. We ARE all one. The universe is one point particle both at the alpha, and the omega...

Having read the other reviews, we'd kinda thought twice about visiting The Pyramids of Guimar in previous years. This year's more relaxed place gave us the perfect opportunity to check this site out properly.

We arrived at 14:00 and left at closing time (18:00), which was a bit of a shock really. I had completely lost track of time. We didn't overly have to rush the last few parts of the attraction but I kinda wish we had more time to ponder all that was on display. Still, our tardiness did not detract from our enjoyment of what was on offer.

Having paid for premium admission (18€ pp), we had access to all that was on offer: The museum, pyramids, auditorium (with video show)… sustainable garden, Tropicana and Poison Garden (parents with kids, heed the warnings!). Seriously, I have no idea how people can say that they looked from the road/car park and decide that they've "seen all that's on offer".

You learn about this guy, Thor Heyerdahl, and how he had an awesome life time exploring his ideas on how people and ideas/traditions spread throughout the developing World. The whole tour explores the ties between this site's pyramids, and the local traditions of the Canarian people, and the 'structures' and traditions found elsewhere.

The usual facilities can be found here also; toilets, cafe etc.

I wish we'd arrived a little earlier in the day. The Pyramids of Guimar gets a five star thumbs...

Well... The surrounding environment well builtout, I can't complain at all, the staff kind and helpful also speaking English very well. I had arrived late (4:30 pm) I have been told there's not enough time to have a longer tour, and also been recommend to sit in to the auditorium to watch a 15 minute video about the history of the place. So because I had 20 minutes I decided to walk around I will see when I have to get back to the show... In fact that 20 minutes was more than enough to walk around the so called piramides, examine as could as possible (there aren't so many chance to get close to...) photos been taken, show seen, than the next 15 minutes was enough to see the botanic garden and one piramid closer which is on the other side, next to the garden. Conclusion do not expect classical piramides, these looking like South American, just makett size, a botanic garden is okay, could be way much better. Only one thing was surprising on an Island bus tour I saw so many anandoned walls built same way, some as high as one stair of the piramides. That Island more mysterious than I thought. It definitely worth to visit. Easy to access by public transport, just check the returning schedule before go. I walked down to the highway to avoid a to times...