Tenerife travel guide
Tenerife is the largest of the seven Spanish Canary Islands. The island is an extremely popular tourist destination partly because of its year round high temperatures and sunny weather. Tenerife has...
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Holidays in Tenerife
Have you discovered Tenerife yet? Many UK holidaymakers describe Tenerife as their dream holiday island. So, what is it about this island which makes it so popular with the UK holidaymakers?
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Golf del Sur
Situated on the south coast of Tenerife and very close to the Reina Sofia airport, Golf del Sur as its name suggests, is primarily a golfing resort. There are numerous world-class courses on offer, but...
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Los Cristianos
The popular resort of Los Cristianos lies in a sheltered bay in the south-west corner of the island of Tenerife, merging into the more glitzy purpose-built resort of Playa de las Americas.
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Playa de las Americas
Playa de las Americas is Tenerife’s busiest tourist playground, a purpose-built hedonistic haven for holidaymakers of all ages who come here for fun in the sun.
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Playa la Arena
Playa la Arena is today one of three separate resorts (Los Gigantes, Puerto Santiago and Playa la Arena) that have merged into one. Playa la Arena is the most modern of the three and has a beautiful long...
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Puerto de la Cruz
Puerto de la Cruz is located on the north coast of Tenerife and is the main tourist centre of the island.
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Tenerife Island
The Canaries are a group of seven islands situated in the Atlantic ocean, above the tropic of Cancer, 1,500 kilometres south of the Spanish mainland. From ancient times these islands have been associated...
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Canary Islands International Jazz and More Festival
The Canary Islands International Jazz Festival is held in a range of venues such as town squares and theatres throughout the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, La Palma and Lanzarote.
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La laurisilva
The laurisilva wood that covers the Anaga highland and other parts of the north of Tenerife is considered by scientists to be a genuine living fossil. This forest which 20 million years ago covered all...
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Las Canadas
The Teide National Park was created in 1954. It has a surface area of 135 square kilometres which includes the great volcanic crater 2,000 meters high where the volcanic cones of Pico Viejo and the Teide...
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Mount Teide
The Teide volcano is the most characteristic feature of the landscape. This great mountain which today dominates the whole island and from the summit of which all the islands can be seen, arose about 600,000...
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Walking over the Teno ridges
This walk covers the highlands of Teno until it reaches the sea at a natural beauty spot. The highland of Teno is an area of great natural wealth which harbours many native plant species.
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Excursion to Barranco del Infierno
Barranco del Infierno in the locality of Adeje is perhaps the most impressive ravine in Tenerife. Its narrow course passes between vertical walls which become covered by abundant and exotic vegetation...
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Garachico
This town, founded in 1499, which had been at one time the most important part of the island was buried in 1706 by a volcanic eruption which ended its days of splendour. At present Garachico is a town...
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Icod de los Vinos
This pretty spot lies 22 km west of Puerto de la Cruz in the north of the island. Its delightful old part has a special charm as it combines like no other the traditional architecture of the colonial past...
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La Orotava
Lying in the fertile valley of the same name, the streets and buildings are monuments to it past cultural splendour. The old part of the town replete with the manors of traditional Canary architecture...
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San Cristobal de la Laguna
San Cristobal de la Laguna is the historical town par excellence of the Canary islands. It was founded in 1497 on the shores of a lake which finally dried up during the last century. For centuries it was...
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