On Tenerife you can find lots of restaurants, taverns and so called "Guachinches" distributed all over the isle. The Guachinche restaurants are typical for the canary isles and here you are served typical canarian dishes and specialties from the region. The ambience in the guachinche is something really special. Normally those kinds of restaurants are established in garages or old canarian houses. It happened often to me that I wanted to visit a guachinche and didn't have any idea where to find one. As well as if you live for a longer time on the isle you don't know even the half of the guachinches and typical restaurants existing here. Now there is a site, on which you can get wonderful insider tips about guachinches, restaurants and taverns. The site is called "De Picoteo por Tenerife", which means something like ...

This photo I made in Playa Jardin, the beautiful beach in Puerto de la Cruz in the North of Tenerife.

Unfortunately I don't know how the name of this flower is, so if you know it, please make a comment!

For who wants to know the amplitud of the atlantic ocean and the variety of the Canary Islands, a sailing trip round the isles would be an adequate holiday alternative. There are different possibilities to hire a sailing yacht with skipper for a group of friends or the whole family. There are different sport marinas on the isle of Tenerife where you can dock with your own sailing yacht and fill up your water and fuel deposits. One of these marinas is situated in Radazul a few kilometres from Santa Cruz. Another marina ist situatet in Los Gigantes on the south-east coast of Tenerife. Here you can dock your yacht or rent some sailing yachts. Another possibility is to participy in an organized sailing cruise with professional skippers. You can choose different trips with meals included. From the marina of Los Gigantes are starting other kinds of ...

La Paz is a noble residential area in Puerto de La Cruz with many habitants from Germany. Accordingly there are many german restaurants and coffee bars, shops and other facilities in La Paz (in english: peace). Nearly all the german shops are situated in the Canary Center, which is a shopping passage. Beside noble boutiques and other shops you can find here as well physiotherapists, traditional healer and medical consults (Deutsches Ärztehaus). The visitor can find a large variety of products, articels and services and can be attended in german or english for better understanding. In the Canary Center there are as well shops selling arts and crafts, lace and other souvenir articles. As well a jewelery is situated in the Canary Center. Who wants to enjoy german gastronomy can try different specialities in a tipical gourmet shop in the Canary Center. A health food ...

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 ...