With its beautiful sandy beaches, breathtaking mountains and moderate climate, it’s no wonder that Tenerife is the most visited of the Canary Islands. In fact, over 5,000,000 tourists visit this amazing island each year.

Just over fifty years ago Los Cristianos was still a small fishing village, then a Swedish broadcaster suffering from MS found its climate had curative effects, shared his discovery with the world and the rest, as they say, is history

Dangling from coils of rope, workmen in hard hats drilled into the cliff face as curious tourists pressed to see through the metal fence sealing off Los Guios beach in Los Gigantes on Tenerife’s west coast [...]

Deflated, utterly deflated, I’d lift my bucket having lovingly packed it with sand and tapped it on the bottom with my little spade but it would crumble at the edges , less like a castle and more like a disaster. Then the tears and tantrums would come, a bit embarrassing as I was 29 at [...]

The cost of hiring sun beds and that all important umbrella can quickly mount up over the course of a week or two’s vacation. So here’s our top 10 of the cost of hiring a sun bed and parasol at Tenerife’s most popular sun worshipping venues:

Lying at the western end of Costa Adeje, Playa del Duque is separated from the rest of the resort by a large rock jutting far out into the sea which acts as a natural curtain lending the beach an air of detached exclusivity[...]

They say “it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good” and while much of Tenerife broiled in the excessive calima heat … the wind catchers of El Médano pumped up their kites and took to their boards.

Spectacular and dangerous, they often go hand in hand, something that Los Gigantes became painfully aware of on 1st November 2009 when part of the steep rock face above the beach tumbled down killing two women. With the legal repercussions dragging on and the beach still sealed off, summer has arrived and whilst the tragedy [...]

Tenerife has invested a great deal of time and money in the importing, sifting and general manicuring of sand to create beaches which, whilst they may not be the best in the world, are exceedingly pleasant places to be[...]

Wind and sea erosion sound like good reasons to worry but in El Médano they take everything in their stride and find the positives. A walk along the wooden slatted promenade in this haven of bare footed surfing dudes soon reveals good reason to trust in nature. The sandstone coves carved by the sea are [...]