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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
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. […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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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). […]
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Seven links to the past to see walking on Tenerife
The mention of Anaga’s terraces got me thinking about other links to the past which we’ve become so used to seeing that we barely register them. There are many remnants of the past to be found in the Tenerife countryside, here are six more. […]
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Walking route from Tenerife’s north coast to Mount Teide
We often receive queries about long walking routes on Tenerife, and also about whether it’s possible to walk from the coast to Mount Teide. […]
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Six scenes of the Teno Alto walking route on Tenerife
There are a handful of walking routes on Tenerife which instantly would spring to mind if we wanted to impress visiting friends who enjoyed a jaunt in the countryside. Teno Alto in the west of the island one of them. […]
East Tenerife
Six scenes of an Afur walking route in Anaga on Tenerife
For another in our ‘Six scenes…’ series we turn our attention to Tenerife’s remote north east and our favourite walking area on the island, Anaga. […]
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Why Masca Barranco had to be closed
The straw which broke the camel’s back was a group of walkers who, despite an orange level weather alert for heavy rain and strong winds, still decided to tackle the Masca Barranco. […]
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The merchant trail between San Miguel and Granadilla de Abona
Even though we knew about the camino real, built in the 16th century to connect Santa Cruz with southern towns as far as Adeje, we didn’t know where exactly to pick it up to head north east. […]