Isle of Tenerife – Blog

In the last summer I traveled in my holidays to Tenerife Island.

My hotel was located in Playa de las Americas, this is in the south of the island.

I was shocked, because my first impression of the south was like an desert. If the trees and plants don´t get water from the resorts, then nothing would grow up there. But it looks very nice.

The name of our hotel was “Los Hibiscus”, a very nice location. There you can find a swimingpool and the rooms are with balcony. The beach was only 10 minutes away from the hotel.

The beach has black sand, but at some bays they put white sand, so it looks like classic beaches. Because of historical reasons, the island arised by volcano activities, the sand has it´s black colour.

At my first night I found some cockroaches, but you have to know, they live here longer then any human and are very shy. It´s pretty normal in these warm regions to see cockroaches.

At my second day of the holdays i made a dolphin tour, and it was very nice. Included in this dolphin tour is a shipping near the stone coast at Los Gigantes a very huge (500 meters high) mountain at the coast. After some minutes we saw many dolphins. This was my highlight of the travel to tenerife island.

Last year i was very excited, about my first holidays in Tenerife. I heard very much of this island and so I started to make my own impressions of this island. So first of all I can say, that my holidays in tenerifa were awesome. Tenerife is not just an island for hanging around in the beach and doing nothing.

Of course, many people went to Tenerife because of this, but you don’t have to do this. Tenerife has many options do make your holidays. What I liked very much, was the many beach-bars in Tenerife. My holidays were about 2 weeks and I could nearly every evening, went to another bar. It was awesome! But also the landscape was very beautifully in Tenerife. Most oft the people over there, just hang around on the beach, like I said it before. But for me, it was not enough.

Tenerife hast more to give than the beaches and the sea and everyone who makes his holidays over there, have to check out the landscape in Tenerife. And also it’s so amazing, cause the flight to Tenerife and also the hotel was very cheap. I looked in the Internet at a many flight-portals and I found a lot of really cheap flights + hotels. So I would rather you to do this at the same way.

The onliest thing you have to look at, is to find the right site for that. Maybe you can make a test in the Internet and ask there for good sites. Cause a lot of this sites aren’t very seriously. But I don’t want to put a bad taste in this, cause Tenerife is really awesome and I would make my holidays over there, every time again.

Tenerife is one of my favourite vacation locations. The climate is mild and springlike all year round and there are many things to see and to do on the island. I like to combine a few relaxing days on the beach with some sightseeing and adventure and Tenerife offers many options.

Me and my family enjoy staying at Puerto de la Cruz. The town has a long tradition as a tourist center, well known for its relaxing atmosphere. During the daytime the sand beach and the lush, tropical gardens of the city invite for some hours of sunbathing and swimming. In the evenings the restaurants in the area around Plaza del Charco offer good food and family entertainment.



One of my familie´s favourite passtimes is hiking and we find Tenerife to be an ideal place for this acitvity. The Anaga mountains in the northeast offer many romatic hiking paths that we enjoy because of the breathtaking scenary and the untouched nature. Hiking is popular on the island and guided tours can easily be arranged. We have always felt safer on the guided tours and of course there is the benefit of getting explanation about local vegetation and wildlife.

The Pico Teide is with about 3,700 meters the highest mountain in Spain. Hiking here is for experts but there is a cable car that takes visitors up to a station near the mountain top. The view from here is fanastic. You can see all of Tenerife but have a view also over the Atlantic ocean and the neighboring Canry Island.



While on vacation on Tenerife, a trip to the island´s capital of Santa Cruz is a must. There are many historical sights that remind us of the island´s ancient history and it´s native inhabitants, the Guanches. Many parks offer the opportunity to relax and downtown we find the best shopping on the island.

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 excursions such as whale and dolphin watching. Other sport marinas on Tenerife are situated in Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas.

On a sailing cruise ahead Tenerifes coast you can get a new perspective of this beatiul piece on earth. You can take a bath in hidden bay’s, which can hardly be reached without a boat or a yacht.

If you want to live a little adventure during your holiday on Tenerife you have the possibility to take a sailing trip to one of the surrounding isles like La Gomera or La Palma.

Tenerife and the whole Canary Isles are an adequate territory for sailing holidays and sailing cruises. Near the sport marinas you can find lots of hotels and holiday-apartments.