Pico del Teide Tour (advance booking)

This Tenerife Tour will leave in the morning from your hotel in Tenerife South. We will head to Buzanada to visit Aloe Park (formerly known as Jardines de Atlantico). The park has 40,000 meters of aloe.

Here we can also admire its “finca”, a farm surrounded by beautiful plantations of bananas and aloe vera. Infact you can find many varieties of fruit trees (oranges, papaya, avocado etc.). Moreover, you can also admire the traditional animals of the “finca” like camels, donkeys, goats and ducks.

Finally, we will conclude the visit with a tasting at the park bazaar.

From here we drive to San Miguel de Abona. Then the Teide Tour will continue to Granadilla and from there go up to Vilaflor at an altitude of 1,400 m. Vilaflor is the highest village in Tenerife.

Here the Tenerife Excursions will make a brief stop to see the Gordo Pine. This is the largest specimen of the Canary Islands, with a height of 45 meters.

Finally the Teide Tour arriva at Teide National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mount Teide is a dormant volcano. It’s the highest point in Spain and the third largest volcano in the world. The Teide National Park has been a protected zone since 1954.

The drive up to the Teide National Park is an experience in itself. Indeed, along the way you can admire Alpine scenery and tons of wildlife. About half way up the terrain abruptly transforms into a surreal, lunar-like landscape.

The weather here can be dramatically different from the rest of the island too. Infact in the winter you can encounter freezing temperatures and snowfall. While in the summer however, temperatures are more consistent with the rest of the island, at around 30-40 °C.

Next, we will make a brief stop in Retamar. This is  a vantage point from which you can admire breathtaking views of the islands El Hierro, La Gomera, and La Palma.

Afterwards the Tenerife Day trip will head towards Las Canadas del Teide. We will visit the volcanic rock formations of Los Roques and be enchanted by the majestic view of the Pico del Teide. The result of erosion of an ancient volcanic dyke, Los Roques is one of the most well known geologic features on Tenerife’s Mount Teide.

From here we head to Verdo del Teleferico Teide to get the cable car that will take us to reach the Pico del Teide.

For this Tenerife excursion you are required to make reservations and payment in advance. This is in order to reserve the cable car tickets.

In addition, to visit the mouth of the volcano, it is also mandatory to reserve the specialist guide who will accompany visitors to the volcano.

For these services you will need to book at least two weeks in advance to receive all of the necessary permits.

During the Teide Tour return journey to the hotel we will stop again in Vilaflor. Here we will visit one of the most exclusive wineries to taste local products (tapas, cheeses, meats) and taste the delicious local wine.