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Though largely given over to the tourist industry, LAS GALLETAS still has the feel of a small coastal town with a handful of shops, bars and restaurants scattered along the seafront and inland along its main pedestrian street. Beside Las Galletas the large COSTA DEL SILENCIO resort now forms a couple of miles of almost uninterrupted development containing numerous expat businesses - mostly restaurants and bars. In the absence of any real beach, growth here is spurred on by the success of the complex-oriented holiday, as begun at Ten-Bel in the 1960s, and an apparently boundless demand for holiday and retirement apartments in southern Tenerife. Certainly, it's not the peace along this stretch that encourages tourism, its name - meaning "Coast of Silence" - something of a misnomer since the opening of the nearby international airport in 1978. Yet it's only at peak flying times that you notice the planes - for the most part it is the continual din of pneumatic drills and cement mixers on the numerous building sites that is most likely to disturb the peace. For this reason alone, it is worth avoiding the eastern end of town on most weekdays. Just beyond the noise of these building sites, however, is the small protected area around Montana Amarilla , which provides a respite from development as does the undeveloped rocky outcrop containing some spectacular cacti just beyond. While to the west of Las Galletas, Rasca Nature Reserve offers a similar arid landscape and is a good location for hikes west to Montana Guaza , centre of another nature reserve.
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