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List of closed walking routes on Tenerife 2023
While the risk level of fires is currently at Grade 0, many trails in this area remain out of bounds. This is a list of closed walking routes on Tenerife due to the summer’s fires. […]
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Why Tenerife is a top hiking destination
There are numerous facets which combine to create the most satisfying walking routes, not all are to do with simply wandering along wonderfully scenic paths. There are additional factors, and Tenerife scores highly on many of these. […]
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Long distance walking routes on Tenerife
You don’t need ready-made long distance trails if you want to walk for a number of days in a row, following a trail which takes you from where you want to start from to where you want to end. Tenerife is a big enough island to have any number of possibilities for long distance paths. […]
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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. […]
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The best festive season walks on Tenerife
All the walks we’ve referenced in the past have been ones which were easy for us to get to from the north, so not much use to anyone staying in other areas of Tenerife. To rectify this, here are some suggestions for festive season walking routes around the island. […]
Featured Walks
Masca Barranco isn’t the only ravine walk on Tenerife
News that ‘improvements’ to the Masca Barranco walking route are taking (much, much) longer than anticipated and the path is unlikely to be open before summer 2020 means that the route is out of bounds for yet another Tenerife walking season. […]
Featured Walks
About short walking routes in Tenerife and the Canary Islands
Climbing in and out of valleys and ravines is an unavoidable feature of walking in the western Canary Islands as I’m sure anyone who’s walked in Anaga or Teno on Tenerife, or on La Gomera, El Hierro, and La Palma will agree. […]
Featured Walks
The best walking experience on Tenerife
Possibly the best singular walking experience we’ve had, the one which surprised and wowed us the most, is one which isn’t actually included in our Real Tenerife Island Walks routes. […]
Featured Walks
Ten things about climbing Mount Teide on Tenerife
It is quite simply the ultimate walking route on Tenerife, and possibly all of the Canary Islands. To hike to the summit of the highest Spanish mountain, Mount Teide is quite an achievement to have on your hiking CV. […]
Featured Walks
Walking through the historic half of La Orotava
Over the years, La Orotava became our favourite town on Tenerife. It’s one of those towns we never tire of wandering around. From a photographer’s point of view, there’s always, always that better shot to get. And for anyone interested in wandering atmospheric, historic streets, La Orotava offers a deep well of riches. […]
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Nature routes on Tenerife for wheelchair users
The path, now completed, turned out to be one of Tenerife’s wheelchair friendly ones, designed to make areas that would otherwise be almost impossible to reach accessible to people with mobility difficulties. […]
Featured Walks
Tenerife Walking Festival 2019
We recently received emails from both a PR company in the UK and also the Tenerife Tourist Board with information about the upcoming Tenerife Walking Festival which runs from 21 to 25 May. […]
East Tenerife
Island Walking Routes for the east of Tenerife
A question which comes up now and again is “do you have any walking routes for the east of Tenerife?” The simple answer is no, we don’t. Although that’s not strictly true, the Malpaís de […]
Equipment
Ten tips for walking on Tenerife
For first time walkers on Tenerife, it might help to have a picture of what it’s like to actually walk on the island, so here are ten things to take into consideration before heading out on the Tenerife trail. […]
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Six of our favourite rural watering holes on Tenerife
When we select walking routes to include in our guides we like them to possess certain ingredients. Ingredients which we want from a walk, the sort of things which elevate them to be more than just a nice walk with lovely views. One of these ingredients is, whenever it’s possible, that there’s somewhere amiable nearby to enjoy a post-walk beer. […]
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Start the New Year with easy walking on Tenerife
Over the years we categorised our favourite routes so that when friends of varying walking capabilities visited we could pick out routes to suit, often these would be the ones which also worked for getting fitness levels back up post festive season i.e. relatively easy Tenerife routes of under 10km. […]
Featured Walks
Six scenes of the Roques de Garcia walking route on Tenerife
There are a few iconic shots on Tenerife and the view of Roque Cinchado with El Teide in the background is one of them. So much so it made it onto a Spanish banknote (in Peseta days). […]