The Real Tenerife is an online magazine devoted to the Tenerife that many websites and travel articles ignore, the Tenerife where most Canarios live; a place which is rich in history, culture and gastronomy. It is for discerning travellers seeking to discover the more authentic faces of Tenerife and the other Canary Islands.
The hill town of Santiago del Teide is, to put it bluntly, a mess. Despite nestling in one of Tenerife’s most picturesque valleys, it is not a particularly nice environment. Not at the moment anyway. And that’s because of the Anillo Insular. The Anillo Insular The Anillo Insular is a ring road linking the south and north of Tenerife via the west of the island rather...
‘That’s not Mexico,’ I exclaimed. The location at the start of BBC’s Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue was instantly identifiable. ‘That’s Abades on Tenerife.’ When I Googled it, AI disagreed, insisting only Gran Canaria appeared in the series, Jardín Canario de Viera y Clavijo to be exact. Not for the first time, nor the last, AI was wrong. The leper village that...
Every so often we like to do a round up of some of the more interesting questions we've been asked, or have seen being asked on travel forums such as Tripadvisor. Here are ten Tenerife questions from September which piqued our interest.
Los Realejos straggles its way up the Orotava Valley, the two mini centres of Realejo Alto and Realejo Bajo connected by steep streets which deter all but those with a curiosity to find out 'what might lie along this road'.
This week a handful of 'signs' online quite clearly led to the same topic – the difference between resorts in the south, predominantly the main southern trio of Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas, and Costa Adeje compared with Puerto de la Cruz.
El Muñeco de Nieve may not actually be the ugliest, but it was recently voted as being in the top 20 ugly roundabouts in Spain.
