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. […]
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. […]
There’s a wonderful diversity of walking in the west and south west, including a route which would probably be in our top three walking trails on Tenerife. […]
circumstances had contrived to make Sunday the best day for making sure a couple of our Teno walking routes were up to date.
First stop was a shortish but delightful walk around the Erjos Pools. […]
Although gaining in popularity and reputation all the time as an excellent walking destination, Tenerife’s multi-personalities are still dominated by its fun in the sun reputation… […]
The west of Tenerife is a bit like nature’s supermarket, offering the equivalent of aisle after aisle of yummy ingredients. There are historic towns such as Garachico, one of the prettiest in all of the Canary Islands, and… […]
Although surface water isn’t common, there are places on Tenerife where streams trickle constantly through narrow ravines, occasionally creating jade pools in hollows in elephant skin coloured boulders. […]
The Masca Barranco is beautiful but there’s a danger of it being ruined by people who simply don’t have a respect for the countryside. […]
One of the natural highlights of the winter on Tenerife is to see the countryside perked up by the addition of delicate pink almond blossom. […]
Last March we enjoyed two of the best hikes on Tenerife we can remember, witnessing two of our favourite areas for walking, Anaga and Teno, at their glorious best. […]
Whereas lots of routes are about views, charming hamlets, sweeping valleys etc. descending the Masca Barranco in the heart of the Teno Mountains unlocks other… […]
Despite being one of the ‘greener’ islands, Tenerife is lacking in the surface water stakes. Living here we’re deprived of rivers and streams. Most of our water… […]
The walking in the Teno Mountains is right up there with our favourite walking areas on Tenerife for a number of reasons. […]
It was late March when we returned and the hills and valleys had burst into a cacophony of colour like no other I have seen on the island in all the years we’ve lived here. […]
Emerging once again into the sunlight, we were stopped in our tracks by a carpet of blue tajinaste flowers, resonating in shades of lilac as the breeze rustled through the profusion of flowers. […]
Geographically, the Santiago Valley doesn’t lie too far from the major holiday resorts of the south and south west of Tenerife, but in looks and nature, it’s a thousand miles away from them. […]
The group completely blocked the path and, as we tried to manoeuvre around them, not one of them budged to let us actually use the path. It meant we would have had to scrabble around the edge to proceed. […]
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