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PDF Canary Islands Tenerife (PDF Chapter) Edition 6th Edition, Jan 2016 Pages 42 Page Range 120-163, 216-234 COVERAGE INCLUDES: Useful Links • Santa Cruz de • Santiago del Teide Tenerife Want more guides? • Masca Head to our shop • La Laguna • Los Gigantes & • Puerto de la Cruz Puerto de Santiago Trouble with your PDF? • La Orotava • Los Cristianos Trouble shoot here • Icod de los Vinos • Playa de las Need more help? • Garachico Américas & Costa Head to our FAQs Adeje • Parque Nacional Stay in touch del Teide • Las Galletas Contact us here • Punta de Teno • Candelaria, Güímar • El Médano © Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd. To make it easier for you to use, access to this PDF chapter is not digitally restricted. In return, we think it’s fair to ask you to use it for personal, non-commercial purposes only. In other words, please don’t upload this chapter to a peer-to-peer site, mass email it to everyone you know, or resell it. See the terms and conditions on our site for a longer way of saying the above – ‘Do the right thing with our content’. ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd Tenerife% 922, 822 / POP 890,000 Includes ¨ Why Go? Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the striking (and slightly saucy) grand dame in the Tenerife .......................123 archipelago family. Attracting over 10 million visitors a year, La Laguna .................. 130 the island’s most famous southern resorts offer Brit-infused Puerto de la Cruz ........135 revelry and clubbing, combined with white sandy beaches La Orotava ................... 141 and all-inclusive resorts. But step beyond the lobster-red tourists and what you’ll find is a cultured and civilised island Icod de los Vinos .........144 of extraordinary diversity. Garachico ....................145 This potpourri of experiences includes tropical-forest Parque Nacional del walks and designer-shop struts; dark forays into volcanic Teide ............................146 lava; a sexy and sultry Carnaval celebration that’s second Los Gigantes & only to Rio, and a stash of museums, temples to modern art Puerto de Santiago ..... 151 and creaky old colonial towns. But above all else, this is an Los Cristianos, Playa de island of drama, and nothing comes more dramatic than the las Américas & Costa snow-draped Pico del Teide, Spain’s tallest mountain and Adeje ...........................152 home to some of the most fabulous hiking in all the country. Las Galletas ............... 160 Candelaria ...................161 Güímar & Around ........162 When to Go El Médano ...................163 ¨ December to February is pleasantly warm, except on El Teide where deep winter can see snowfall closing the mountain. ¨ Springtime (March to April) is good for hiking and Best Places to Eat wildflowers. Surfers will find the best waves in March. ¨ In the summer months from May to September, expect ¨ Guaydil (p133) around 11 hours of daily sunshine with an average of 28°C in ¨ La Hierbita (p128) August; a few degrees cooler during the surrounding months. ¨ Tito’s Bodeguita (p140) ¨ As autumn turns from October to November, temperatures fall around the ideal 21°C mark and there’s fewer tourists; some hotels may drop their prices slightly. Best Places to Stay ¨ Hotel Alhambra (p227) ¨ Hotel Adonis Capital (p226) ¨ Hotel Sun Holidays (p227) 121 History ROAD DISTANCES (KM) The original inhabitants of Tenerife were Puerto de la Cruz 74 primitive cave-dwellers called Guanches, who arrived from North Africa around 200 Los Cristianos 158 140 BC. Tenerife was the last island to fall to the Puerto de Santiago 73 40 27 Spanish (in 1496) and subsequently became Parador Nacional de Teide 128 90 64 40 an important trading centre. As such, it was subject to invasions by marauding pirates and, in 1797, from the British in the battle of o Santa Cruz, when Admiral Nelson famously lost his arm (served him right, really). Santa Cruz de la Tenerife Puerto de la Cruz Los Cristianos Puerto de Santiag In 1821 Madrid declared Santa Cruz de Approximate distances only Tenerife the capital of the Canaries. The good and great of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria re- mained incensed about this until 1927, when Naviera Armas (Map p124; % 902 45 65 00; Madrid finally split the archipelago into two www.navieraarmas.com) runs an extensive ferry provinces, with Santa Cruz as the provincial service around the islands from Santa Cruz de capital of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and Tenerife. ¨ Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria El Hierro. As economic links between the (from €31, 2½ hours, 21 weekly) Canaries and the Americas strengthened, a ¨ Morre Jable, Fuerteventura (from €70, 6½ small exodus of islanders crossed the ocean, hours, one daily) notably to Venezuela and Cuba. In later years TENERIFE ¨ Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (from €62, affluent emigrants and Latin Americans re- 11½ hours, one daily) versed the trend, bringing influences that are ¨ Arrecife, Lanzarote (from €72.50, 11 hours, still evident in the food and Latino beat of one daily, Monday to Friday) the music of today’s Tenerife. % Fred Olsen ( 902 10 01 07; www.fredolsen. G es) has three to six daily ferries from Santa Cruz etting 8 Getting There & Away to Agaete in the northwest of Gran Canaria (€36, AIR 1¼ hours), from where you can take its free bus onwards to Las Palmas (35 minutes). Two airports serve the island. Tenerife Sur TH (Reina Sofía; % 922 75 95 10; www.aena.es), Ferries from Los Cristianos E about 20km east of Playa de las Américas, R Ferries come in and out of the Los Cristianos E handles international flights, while almost all & AW port day and night. Naviera Armas and the fast- inter-island flights (plus a few international and er, but more expensive, Fred Olsen operate from mainland services) use the older and smaller here. Tickets are available from travel agents or Tenerife Norte (Los Rodeos; % 922 63 56 35; A from the main Estación Marítima building. Y www.aena.es). Binter Canarias (% 092 39 13 92; www.bintercanarias.com) connects the Routes operated by Naviera Armas from Los island with the rest of the archipelago. Cristianos include the following: ¨ San Sebastián de la Gomera, La Gomera BOAT (€30, one hour, three daily Monday to Friday, Ferries from Santa Cruz one Saturday, two Sunday) Buy tickets for all companies from travel agents ¨ Santa Cruz de la Palma, La Palma (€41, 3½ or from the main Estación Marítima Muelle hours, one daily Sunday to Friday) Ribera (Map p124) building in Santa Cruz (from ¨ Valverde, El Hierro (€49.50, 3¾ hours, where the Fred Olsen boats leave). Naviera Ar- 5.30pm Sunday to Friday) mas has its base further to the south. Routes operated by Fred Olsen from Los Cris- Trasmediterránea Acciona (% in Madrid 902 tianos include the following: 45 46 45; www.trasmediterranea.com; Estación ¨ San Sebastián de la Gomera, La Gomera Marítima Muelle Ribera) runs a weekly ferry at (€32, 50 minutes, three daily Monday to Friday, 11.30pm every Friday from Santa Cruz de Tener- two daily Saturday and Sunday) ife that makes the following stops: ¨ Santa Cruz de la Palma, La Palma (from €42, ¨ Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria two hours, one daily Sunday to Friday) (from €22, 8½ hours) ¨ Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura (from €26, 20½ hours) ¨ Arrecife, Lanzarote (from €28, 24 hours) 122 D Santa Cruz de la Palma 020km e# 010miles Playa Playa de Roque San Faro de de los de las Troches Roque Anaga Bodegas Ù# #õ Punta del HidalgoÙ# #\ A T L A N T I C #\ #æ #\ Benijo Bajamar #\ O C E A N #\ Taganana Almáciga Tejina #\ El Socorro #\ Anaga #\ #1 #\ Tegueste Mountains Ù# Igueste San Andrés #\ ##\5 Playa de las #\ La Laguna El Sauzal #\ #– Teresitas Tacoronte /·TF-5 La Matanza ##]4 f# de Acentejo #\ El Puerto de La Esperanza Santa Cruz de /·TF-5 #\ D Buenavista Guincho Playa de a la Cruz #\ Tenerife San Marcos #7 v Tenerife Norte Las Palmas del Norte Garachico a /·TF-5 La #\ t 0¸TF-24 (Los Rodeos) de Gran Canaria Ù# o Las Cruces Genovés Orotava r Airport #\ #\ ##\\#\ O 0¸TF-42 #\ a Punta 0¸TF-445 Icod de los l #\ Aguamansa 0¸ d e #\ de Teno TF-436 Vinos V a l l e Candelaria Parque Rural #æ 0¸TF-82 Montaña El de Teno ##\6 Masca Pico del #\ #\ Portillo Güímar #\ Puertito Teide Blanca Barranco #\ Santiago (2750m)#ïVisitor Centre de Masca del Teide (3718m) R ö# R R Observatorio del Teide Acantilados de #æ Los 0¸TF-38 ¤# los Gigantes Pico Viejo Parque Nacional #\ El Escobonal #\Gigantes (3070m) #3 #\ #\ TENERIFE TENERIFE Puerto de del Teide Fasnia Roques de Roques de #ï #\ Santiago #æ Cañada Blanca Icor #\ 66#\ García Fasnia Ù# Llano de ÿ# Visitor Centre 0¸TF-28 Playa de la Guía de Parador Ucanca 0¸ #\ Arico Viejo Arena Isora TF-21 Nacional #\ Santa Cruz 0¸TF-82 Arico #\ Porís de Abona #\ de la Palma Barranco del Vilaflor Nuevo G Hig D Infierno etting Grandilla /· Playa de las #\Adeje #\ TF-1 GaviotasÙ# de Abona H #\ Arona lig Tenerife Sur 66#\ Playa de Costa Adeje Playa de las (Reina Sofía) Ù# 2 El Cabezo H #Américas TH #\ Airport ts Los Cristianos #– #\ El Médano E D R Faro de la #\ Costa del E #õ San Sebastián Rasca Las Silencio de& AW la Gomera; Galletas A T L A N T I C Puerto de la O C E A N Estaca (El Hierro) A Y Tenerife Highlights 1 Do a Darwin and check 3 Hike around the fabulous 5 Visit La Laguna (p130), out the magnificentAnaga moonscape of Parque and the best-preserved mountains (p134), the oldest Nacional del Teide (p146) historical quarter on the island geographical region on the 4 Check out the great wave 6 Be overawed by tiny island of the Auditorio de Tenerife Masca (p150) and its 2 Roll out your party gear (p126) in Santa Cruz de extraordinary setting for a night on the town at the Tenerife 7 Enjoy the salty sea breezes neon-framed hot spots in of the charming resort of Playa de las Américas (p152) Puerto de la Cruz (p135) 123 8 Getting Around oMuseo de la Naturaleza y TITSA (Transportes Interurbanos de Tenerife el Hombre MUSEUM SA; www.titsa.com) runs a spider’s web of bus (www.museosdetenerife.org; Calle Fuente Morales; services all over the island, as well as within adult/child €3/1.50; h9am-7pm Tue-Sun) This Santa Cruz and other towns.