Looking for whales, finding dolphins
By DW
06 January 2019 |
3:45 pm
Hardly anywhere else on earth is as good for whale watching as the Canary Islands in the Atlantic. DW reporter Christina Deicke went on board to get a glimpse of these marine giants in their natural habitat.
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