Car Rental Tenerife - Exploring Tenerife
Away from the beaches, Tenerife has a remarkable countryside, with mountainous rainforests, inland deserts, stunning coastal scenery and quaint rural villages.
The Villa de la Orotava lies in a banana plantation valley, with interesting old archictecture. In the Orotava mountains there are hiking paths - some of which reach the great Cañadas del Teide, a protected National Park area.
Despite its great beauty, the panoramic Anaga Mountain region is still relatively unexplored and has several rural villages. The Parque Nacional de las Cañadas del Teide includes an enormous volcanic crater 48kms in circumference, out of which rises Mount Teide (Spain’s highest peak).
The Cliffs of the Giants (Acantilados de los Gigantes) are remarkable sheer rock walls that plunge into the ocean, located a quarter of the way down the west coast of Tenerife.
The ethnographic park, 'Pirámides de Güímar' contains the rare stone pyramids whose disputed origins bear resemblance to similar ones found in Peru.
Los Cristianos, once a fishing village, is one of the most popular resorts on the Canary Islands. The most popular beaches include, Playa de Las Teresitas, Playa San Marcos, and the well developed, glitzy, Playa de Las Americas. Lago Martianez is a good freshwater alternative.
