In 2023, a wildfire devastated an area covering 14000 hectares along Tenerife’s cumbre, spreading further down northern slopes than southern ones. Where it can be difficult to visualise a number, official maps made it abundantly clear how much of the island was affected. Wildfires are, unfortunately, not uncommon in places with warm climates. We’ve witnessed plenty...
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...
A review on our Walk this Way Tenerife guidebook questioned our claim that Tenerife was still not known as a walking destination. When we initially wrote the book, despite there being plenty of other walking guidebooks on the market as the reviewer pointed out, we firmly believed the island didn’t have the reputation for walking it deserved. Why did we think...
There are a couple of memorable ways to get stars in your eyes in Teide National Park. One of them is to go on a stargazing and tapas trip to Mount Teide. On a chilly November early evening we huddled around the lower cable car station with a group of travel writers from across Europe waiting to take a trip with a difference up Teide . We’ve walked up the...
Most coastal towns and resorts on Tenerife have a promenade of sorts. Some are short, some are long and some are more functional than pretty.
The mountain dominates Teide National Park. It dominates much of Tenerife, in fact it dominates the Canary Islands. The scene which brings people to a halt on islands like La Gomera and Gran Canaria is as likely to be Tenerife's Mount Teide...
Here, we often see reference to the islanders' own perception of their identity as being much more closely aligned to their African neighbours than to their Spanish sovereigns but in reality, the connection is far more South American than African. Not so Cape Verde...
We didn't realise how important walking/hiking was to Tenerife until we read some official statistics provided by Turismo de Tenerife recently.
Why are there a collection of small stone buildings in the centre of the volcanic plains in Teide National Park? It's the question we asked ourselves when we...
Rather than tell you about how good walking in the upper Orotava Valley is, we thought we just show you instead.