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If you rent a car on Tenerife without this specially designed guide, you run the risk of missing the very best parts of the island. Real Tenerife Island Drives is about showing visitors to Tenerife that there's much more to this island than just the sun soaked beaches of the coastal developments. There's history, beauty, culture and tradition set in a landscape that varies from lava strewn crater, through pine coated forest and vine covered terraces to coastal banana plantations, rocky shores and fine sand, palm tree lined beaches.

Throw into the mix a culture where fiestas are as important as work and you'll find fireworks, traditional costumes, bullock-led carts, goat filled streets and an atmosphere of fun and celebration somewhere on the island just about every week of the year.

Having 'Island Drives' is like having your own personal tour guide in the car with you. Why? Because 'Island Drives' has been written by people who actually live in Tenerife and have spent four years as travel writers exploring the island.


There are many towns and villages on Tenerife that remain shy of the standard tourist trail and unseen by most visitors. Even those that are firm favourites with tour companies have unseen corners just a stone's throw away from unsuspecting groups of visitors.Take a look at some of Tenerife's lesser known beauty spots waiting to be discovered when you explore Tenerife.

Arico Nuevo | Garachico | La Laguna | La Orotava Los Realejos | Los Silos | Parque García Sanabria | Tenerife beaches

Tenerife - Off the Beaten Track


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The Virgen del Carmen

During a month where the sea-based activities figure highly on many people's agendas, it seems an appropriate month to hold the fishermen's fiestas. In fishing communities across Tenerife around the 16th, fishermen carry images of the Virgen del Carmen to the sea and load her on to waiting fishing boats. One of the biggest celebrations takes place, as it so often does, in Puerto de la Cruz when the whole day (14th July this year) is one long water party. Buy your fiesta T-shirt and join in the wet 'n' wild fun, but not before you read our report about what to expect...

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Walking/Hiking Tenerife

Tenerife’s countryside boasts an incredible variety of different terrains and scenery. With fascinating routes through dense forests, plunging ravines, ‘other worldly’ volcanic landscapes and unspoiled coastlines, Tenerife is a walker’s paradise; ideal for people who enjoy making the effort to really delve below the surface of the places they visit. Discover the best of Tenerife’s great outdoors with our mini guide to the places to go walking and hiking on Tenerife. NEW - Orotava Valley route - NEW

Going Native in Tenerife

The authors of Real Tenerife Island Drives are pleased to announce the publication of ‘Going Native in Tenerife ’.
200 pages crammed with in-depth reviews of towns and villages across Tenerife as well as the island’s history, culture, traditions, food and drink, language, climate, extensive calendar of fiestas and not least, suggested itineraries for quick visits, holidays, temporary residence and a whole lifetime of enjoying the best of what Tenerife has to offer.
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Weather in Tenerife
Even in the land of eternal spring, you notice when summer begins in earnest. Temperatures rarely drop below 30 degrees during the day...and that's in the north. At nights you realise that those colourful hand held Spanish fans aren't just ornaments. Spanish mainlanders descend on Puerto de la Cruz in their droves. The only place to cool down is on Tenerife's beaches, so July is all about fun and frolics at the seaside.
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TENERIFE MATTERS

Discovering Tenerife's hidden delights and getting to know its people and customs, they've used their accumulated knowledge to design a series of road journeys that take you off the standard tourist trail and into the heart of Tenerife to experience its dramatic scenery, historic towns and prettiest hamlets.

On Tenerife, the ratio of altitude (sea level to 3718 metres) to surface area (86km long, 56km wide) provides a multitude of micro-climates, and the volcanic make-up of the land offers unrivalled drama in its scenery.

With 'Island Drives' you can move through spectacular landscapes from snow to sunbathing in a half day journey.

Packed with information, anecdotes and stunning photographs, Island Drives is your key to a great holiday in Tenerife.

All that's left now is to order your copy of Island Drives, book your Flights to Tenerife and prepare to discover a vibrant, fascinating and friendly island rich in history and culture.

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All About Tenerife

When it comes to reliable information about Tenerife, the team here at Island Drives are constantly travelling the island to parts that visitors and even most residents never see, trekking along goat trails in the mountains, treading the streets of every town and village, revelling at fiestas until dawn (all in the name of research) and spending endless hours translating reams of sleep inducing Spanish text.

In the About Tenerife pages we share some of our extensive personal knowledge of the island of Tenerife, much of which is entirely overlooked by information sources, tour groups and even the most reputable travel guides...

Carnaval, Climbing Mount Teide, El Médano, Fiesta San Andrés, Fiesta San Roque, Hearts of Tejina, Kite Festival, Los Gigantes, Midsummer Madness, Pirates in Tenerife, Puerto de la Cruz, Puerto's July Fiestas, Restaurants in Puerto de la Cruz, Santa Cruz, Siam Park, Walking on Tenerife

**CHECK OUT OUR NEW LOOK 'ABOUT TENERIFE' PAGE - JULY 2009**



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Former Boney M singer, Anne Peters at Jazz Festival 2008
Last chance to catch The Pretenders at the Auditorium on July 6. Apart from that there are the usual range of sounds to satisfy all musical tastes. The Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Mas Heineken brings cool jazz to Santa Cruz, La Laguna & Puerto and film buffs are set to have their spines well and truly chilled at the 'Alien' Movie themed third Film Music Festival.
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