Isle of Tenerife – Blog

Last month I discovered a really good company, which is organizing excursions and sports activities all around the isle of Tenerife.

The young and innovative company is called patea tus montes, what means more or less: hike through your mountains.

José and his team are offering their service since 1996. Their headquarter is located in La Orotava, in the North of the isle.

With patea tus montes you can hike all over the isle. Excursions are offered round Mount Teide National Park, the vulcanic landscape, in the Anaga mountains and Teno and many other interesting places on Tenerife. With the professional guides you get a lot of background information about fauna, flora and geological conditions of the isle.

We got some instructions from José before we entered the cave

José and his team are offering as well adventurous trips through caves and vulcanic tubes, which you can find with frequency on the isle of Tenerife. I participated on an excursion to the vulanic cave of San Marcos. It was really exciting, but with José the whole group felt quiet secure deep down inside a vulcanic tube. We got a lot of information about the origin and charcteristics of such a vulcanic tube.

Inside the cave of San Marcos

Nena and Ivan inside the vulcanic tunel system of San Marcos

After we went down to playa de San Marcos and we learned how to kayak! We learned the basic instructions and how to act in case of danger. We had so much fun out there with the kayaks. Some of us got dropped into the water.

If you want to make a tour by mountainbike on Tenerife, you can join patea tus montes. They offer mountainbike tours and trips with kayaks. The tours are organized in different levels for beginners and advanced learners.

Patea tus montes arranges as well climbing trips on Tenerife. If you join an excursion with patea tus montes you get all the necessary equipment provided. The trips include transfer and professional guide.

If you are interested in excursions, hiking, climbing and mountainbiking, you can find more information on the homepage of patea tus montes:

www.pateatusmontes.com

Dive and Sea Tenerife is one of the best diving schools situated in Amarilla Golf in the south of Tenerife. The diving school is based at San Miguel Marina, which is the newest marina on the island.

Dive and Sea Tenerife chose a variety of different locations which best match your experience level so that you can enjoy your diving experience. You can visit dive sites in the north as well as in the south of Tenerife. The diving school provides quality equipment for you to use on your dive.

Dive and Sea Tenerife offer Scuba Diving Courses for beginners and advanced divers.
One of the most popular courses is the open water course. With this level you can dive anywhere in the world up to 18 m of depth.

The courses offered range from Discover Scuba, open water, advanced, rescue diver leading through to your dive master, specialities and ERF. Dive and Sea Tenerife also offer Dive packs at very competitive prices you can find a huge amount of courses and activities in the Dive and Sea Tenerife diving school. You can start your diving course from only 10 years old.

Dive and Sea Tenerife also offers Snorkelling trips, Boat excursions, and Boat Taxis to interesting locations along the coast of Tenerife.

If you are interested in booking a diving experience in Tenerife, you can find more information and details about prices and courses on the homepage of Dive and Sea Tenerife:

www.diveandseatenerife.com

The Official Test Centre is a windsurfing centre with a difference, which has been co-founded by Tris Best (Britisch Test Editor for magazines) and Australian Ben Wood.

The Official Test Centre is situated in the South of Tenerife, in El Médano. The centre stocks equipment from nearly every major windsurfing brand. The equipment is available to test for all the key disciplines from wave to crossover and from freestyle to freeride.

Equipment in the Offficial Test Centre

In El Médano the surfing conditions are ideal and you can find three superb sailing areas. On the beach of El Médano you can enjoy realistic coastal freeride conditions. One of Europe’s best wave sailing arenas – El Cabezo – is situated as well in El Médano.

The OTC (Official Test Center) provides equipment from more than 18 important windsurfing brands. You have the opportunity to test all kind of equipment for different disciplines before you decide which one to buy.

In the OTC you can test the equipment and enjoy a relaxing holiday surrounding.

For more information,
email: info@otc-windsurf.com,
phone +34 922 179 401 or log onto: www.otc-windsurf.com

Tenerife Dogs is a website dedicated to helping Tenerife’s hard working dog rescue shelters and is a mine of useful information about all things doggie on the island and world-wide. The site was set up by Nikki Attree, a digital artist, and her pooch Basil – who explains the idea:

“Not all dogs land on their paws like me, and some even find themselves roaming the streets – for them it’s ‘dog eat dog’ ! … so Nikki set up this website to support all the kind humans who help those poor abandoned pooches find a new home.” On the site you’ll find all the latest news from Tenerife’s rescue centres:

Live Arico, Dingo Dogs and K9 … as well as contributions from local vet Miquel Los Santo (who runs the ‘Animal Centre Sur’ in El Medano), and Sharon Haslam – a dog trainer and commitee member of K9 … along with plenty of wooftastic and plain barking mad stories.

It has to be a ‘must read and bookmark‘ for all Tenerife’s doggie people.
www.tenerifedogs.blogspot.com

The Loro Parque is a huge zoo in Puerto de La Cruz, situated on the North of the isle of Tenerife. This attraction has been founded by Wolfgang Kiessling and his father.

This Park is like a botanic garden and a zoo. Herre you can find many attractions beside a huge variety of animals. Early Loro Parque has been a zoo for lots of species of birds an parrots, some of them in danger of extinction. Nowadays it is one of the most famous and visited tourist attractions on the isle of Tenerife.

If you visit Loro Parque you can get immersed in the fascinating world of animals. One of the highlights in this zoo are different animal shows, which you can enjoy in Loro Parque. The latest attraction is a show with Orcas, who have been braught to the zoo in 2006. As well you can enjoy a great show with dolphins, sea lions and parrots with their trainers. Another thing you should not miss in Loro Parque is Planet Penguin. Here you can see different species of pengiuns. A special part has been formed into a perfect habitat for some of them. The climate of the Antartic has been formed with tons of ice and snow. You really feel like in the Antartic if you see how its continuately snowing.

one of the orcas in Loro Parque

Dolphin show

Sea lion

Penguins in Planet Penguin

In Loro Parque you can observe lots of animals, a very special habitant of this zoo ist a white tiger.

White tiger

The whole surface of this park is more than 135.000 m². In Thai Village, an originally thai village has been built inside Loro parque, you can buy some souvenirs and other things. It’s easy to get there, from the center of Puerto de la Cruz you can take a train for free, which is bringing you to the entrance of Loro Parque.