Accomodation - La Hidalga Rural Study Center

Proyecto Ambiental Tenerife LA HIDALGA RURAL STUDY CENTRE
KEY FACTS:
Free accommodation: Simple multibedded in converted peasant tenement dwellings. Three shower blocks with eleven showers and five wash basins. Five toilets. Kitchen and facilities. Extensive relaxation areas on a large, but intimate, landscaped site. Resource Room, see attached details.
	Situation: In an orange grove surrounded on three sides by the majestic 2000mtr high mountains that form the Guimar Valley and with the Atlantic and Gran Canaria facing. 12 Km from Santa Cruz and 56Km from the mass tourism of the south. Local facilities: Easy walking distance of local bars, supermarket, garage shop and bus stops. Nearest villages apart from tiny hamlet of La Hidlaga are Arafo and Guimar some 2km distant and Candelaria about 5km away, ten minutes on the bus.
MEAL ARRANGEMENTS - LA HIDALGA. There are facilities for making snacks and drinks. Breakfast - rolls and preserves, cornflakes, milk and tea/ sugar -will be provided and you will be able to help yourself. Evening meals are also provided and this year we will be preparing these ourselves in order to create more flexibility. Cooking, washing - up and cleaning will be on a rota basis and organised by the on-site co-ordinators. Cleanliness is next to God, and it keeps the rats away!! ELECTRICITY. 220 volts. Most UK appliances will need an adapter as sockets take round two pin plugs.
RESOURCE ROOM: Fully equiped to handle upto fifty people. Facilities: Whiteboard 3m x 2m Lecture Stage 3x Pentium computers with work stations. Two with CD writers. Scanner Colour printers x2. Word office suite, Adobe Photoshop, Video capture chip, Databases: Pilot Whale Photo I/D Bottlenose Dolphin Photo I/D Risso Dolphin I/D Social Behaviour data, pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins Pollution Monitoring data Marine Habitat Survey data 3D Seabed Maps Management Survey data Military maps of Tenerife OHP Slide projector Laminators, A3 & A4 Book binder Video cameras x2 Underwater video camera x1 Cameras with 300ml/ 400ml telefoto lenses x3 GPS x3 Stop Watches x2 Dictaphones x3 Television Video players x2 Lap top computers x2 Specialist dive survey equipment including quadrats etc. Digital theodolite with tripod Spotter telescope. Specialist pollution monitoring equipment.