Experience · A whole day
A day on Guayota's volcano
The National Park told through its stories: what the chronicles say, what is modern legend and what geology explains. Check the summit weather before you leave: it can be cloudy below and clear above, and the other way round.
- 6–8 happroximately
- 3places
- Yescar needed
The plan, step by step
In the morning
Up Guayota's volcano
The chroniclers say the Guanches placed Guayota, the force of evil, inside Teide. The version where he locks away the sun is a modern literary legend. The cable car climbs to La Rambleta; the summit needs a permit.
Around midday
The Roques de García
Remains of the wall that divided the two calderas of Las Cañadas. Roque Cinchado, with Teide behind it, is the picture on the old 1,000-peseta note.
In the afternoon
The Eggs of Teide
On the Montaña Blanca route, black lava balls on white pumice: pieces of the peak's last flows that rolled downhill.
Good to know
It is cold up there and the sun burns harder: bring a warm layer, water and sun protection even if it is fine below.
Goes with
A whole day
From the volcano to the Atlantic
Up to Teide in the morning, the whole island from La Rambleta at 3,555 metres, and down to swim at San Marcos in the afternoon. Only possible from the north.
A morning
A morning of mystery in Icod
A 27,000-year-old lava tube, a tree whose age nobody knows and the port the lava swallowed in 1706. For travellers who come looking for stories.
Finca Julia · Icod de los Vinos
And at the end of the day,
the terrace.
An old Canarian house on the hillside, with the Atlantic in front. Availability and price are on the official Airbnb listing.