10 Unique Things to Do in Tenerife
1: Visit a 1000-year-old tree Known linguistically as The Drago Milenario, the 59-foot tall Dragon tree of Icod in Tenerife is the largest of its kind and has become a…
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Walk this Way, Santiago del Teide
As we emerge from the stifling heat of late summer and the first rains of the autumn feed the earth, turning brown to green and filling the air with the…
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Walk this Way, Puertito de Güímar
Now summer is officially on us and before the thermometer loses its head entirely, it’s the ideal time to explore Tenerife’s east coast. Around Puertitio de GüÃmar the default setting is sun and …
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Walk this Way, Cruz del Carmen to Chinamada
The Anaga Mountains are like nowhere else on Tenerife. Here, life goes on in much the same way it has for centuries, completely oblivious to the developments of the resorts on the rest of the island. This month, we leave the ‘valley deep’ of Masca and head to the “Mountain high’ of the Anagas for some truly heady, spring hiking trails.
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Walk this Way, Masca
Barranco del Infierno hung up its hiking boots and closed to the public 18 months ago. This month we stop mourning the manicured splendour of Adeje and head instead to the Jurassic jewel of Masca […]
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Top Ten-erife Days Out
Tenerife may be one of the world’s most popular winter sun getaways, but when the novelty of lying half naked on the beach while the folks back home are shivering in their boots wears off, where can you go to see something more than sun, sand, sea and theme parks?
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Walk this Way, GuÃa de Isora to Chirche
This month we take an excursion away from the sun-soaked beaches of the south west coast to discover the ghosts of a past in the hills above them.
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Walk this Way, La Caldera
From the wide forest pista (path) of La Caldera a trail snakes up through the forest, ever higher until it reaches the ridge and the world below opens up at your feet. You can sit on flat rock chair, dangle your legs and tuck into egg butties in front of a wide screen vista that makes you glad to be alive.
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Top Ten-erife Museums
When you decide to do a feature on Tenerife’s top ten museums, you have to ask yourself two questions: Firstly, are there actually 10 museums in Tenerife and secondly, who cares?
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