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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
The Tenerife Walking Festival is an opportune way to introduce your boots to this challenging and rewarding terrain… […]
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. […]
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… […]
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… […]
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… […]
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… […]
Stepping out of the Teide Parador at 8.30am, our feet crunch on the frosty surface where the sun has not yet crept to warm the earth. Behind us, Mount Teide blazons in the afterglow of her crimson sunrise… […]
Gran Canaria has been doing it for four years, La Palma has been at it for six years and little La Gomera took its first steps in 2013 but for Tenerife, 2015 will be its first time… […]
Given that the Knights Templar were denounced by the Catholic Church in the 14th century, it’s a mystery as to why the tombs are in the floor of a 16th century Dominican church. And it’s not the only mystery La Laguna holds… […]
Before Columbus stocked the Santa Maria with supplies from the neighbouring island of La Gomera and set sail on his atlas-changing voyage, the wild and remote Canary Island of El Hierro was the very edge of the Ancient World… […]
If you’re planning a walking holiday to Tenerife or to any of the Canary Islands and are wondering whether walking poles are essential, here are a few of the things we’ve learned over the years to help you make an informed choice. […]
Asturias boasts an exquisitely green countryside with an abundance of rivers and, in the Picos of Europe, snow topped mountains, glacial lakes and a ruggedly savage terrain where bears and wolves still roam… […]
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