For visitors who want to get dressed up, get down and get slightly drunk with the locals type of carnival or maybe even just to experience the best parades...
For visitors who want to get dressed up, get down and get slightly drunk with the locals type of carnival or maybe even just to experience the best parades...
This year we decided it was time for a change and instead of heading upwards, turned westward along the coast to Buenavista del Norte.
Follow our photo guide to the Fiestas del Carmen and the Día de la Embarcación in Puerto de la Cruz to enjoy a wet, wild and wonderful Tenerife tradition.
In tourist terms June on Tenerife is one of the low-key months, but relating to what's going on around the island it's one of our favourite months.
Just about every fiesta requires a fiesta queen, so each town may end up having a few queens over the course of a year. Additionally every town on Tenerife that holds a carnival will...
Tenerife's carnival parades are a fiesta feast for the eyes and the street parties are a hedonist's heaven but carnival on Tenerife comes with accessories that excite me nearly as much. One of these is the California food stall in Puerto de la Cruz.
Let's get one thing straight, the closing parade in Santa Cruz, Tenerife isn't actually the end of carnival. It's a technicality, a religious thing to do with giving things up for Lent on Shrove Tuesday...
There are clowns driving cars to my side and my rear. Okay there are often clowns driving cars around me but this time they are actually dressed as clowns.
Barely hours after the gala for Election of the Carnaval Queen was over we were back in Santa Cruz and in the gardens of the Hotel Mencey to interview...
The problem with carnival (carnaval) on Tenerife is that once it begins it demands your attention lock, stock and barrel – well if you allow yourself to be...