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Ten of the best hikes on Tenerife
It occurred to me that, apart from in an appendix in our Walk this Way Tenerife hiking guidebook, we’ve never actually listed what we consider to be the best hikes on Tenerife on this website. […]
Spain
Featured Walks
Climbing Alto de Guajara in Teide National Park
Legend talks of a young Guanche princess named Guajara who, on hearing of the death of her husband in the Battle of Aguere, chose to throw herself from the top of a mountain rather than […]
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Six of the Best Tenerife Walks That Are Easy to Access
Since the beginning of the year, we’ve been re-walking many of the routes in our Walk This Way Tenerife guide to make sure they’re still accurate and up to date. We’ve been taking a friend […]
Featured Walks
Checking Out Walking Routes in La Orotava
“After 100m turn left up the steps signposted Camino de los Guanches and Llanos de Chimiche on the PRTF-35”, I read aloud. We were standing at the foot of the steps and there was no […]
East Tenerife
Tenerife Walking Festival 2016
The Tenerife Walking Festival is an opportune way to introduce your boots to this challenging and rewarding terrain… […]
Featured Walks
Los Organos Walk in La Orotava Remains Closed
We recommend that you follow ‘The Guanche Way’ or ‘A Glimpse of Rural Life’ routes instead, both detailed in our Island Walks series and in Walk This Way Tenerife. […]
Featured Walks
Walking and Wine in Vilaflor
Following a cobbled path that climbed gradually into the meadows above the village, we skirted fields of old vines secreted amongst the proliferation of grasses and wild flowers that had sprung into life with the winter rains… […]
Featured Walks
Walking In Sunshine in the Anaga Mountains
At the edge of the forest, clouds of vapour rose from the dense canopy coating the sheer faces of ravines, drifting in columns between the serrated layers of peaks that rose skyward… […]
Featured Walks
Behind the Screens on Walking Tenerife
Routes we like best are the ones that are not on the radar of the walking groups, the ones that take unexpected twists and turns, that traverse paths that once formed lifelines between communities but have long fallen into disuse. Those are the routes that give us most pleasure… […]
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Following Waymarks When Walking on Tenerife
With the island enjoying a burgeoning interest in hiking and the Tenerife Walking Festival about to take its inaugural steps, the island has seen a massive increase in the number of information boards and the official waymarking of routes. These are the ones you’ll encounter… […]