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Tenerife Marco Polo Pocket Travel Guide
Tenerife is home to Spain's highest mountain. Find your favourite guanchinche, where locals know which family restaurants serve their own wine and which mountain trails avoid the crowds. Updated 2025.
Skip the overpriced restaurants in Las Am ricas and crowded cable car queues. This local expert guide reveals traditional guachinches in La Orotava where farming families serve homemade Canarian food with their own harvest wine, authentic fishing villages like La Caleta where Casa del Mar has served the freshest catch for 40 years, and mountain trails through ancient laurel forests that feel prehistoric.
Navigate Tenerife's incredible diversity with Marco Polo's signature pull-out maps connecting coastal villages to volcanic highlands. From north coast guachinches where locals gather for grilled rabbit with salmorejo sauce to hidden black volcanic beaches where Atlantic waves crash against dramatic cliffs, experience authentic Canarian island life.
What You'll Discover:
Secret Tenerife authentic dining - family-run guachinches serving traditional rabbit, fresh local cheeses with honey, and homemade harvest wines
Tenerife navigation mastery - Marco Polo's pull-out map with mountain routes, coastal connections, and village access
Authentic Canarian food culture - guachinche customs, local wine traditions, and farming family recipes passed down generations
Tenerife cultural confidence - Canarian customs, volcanic knowledge, and essential Spanish phrases for connections
Budget-friendly volcanic adventures - free national park trails, local transport wisdom, and money-saving secrets
Perfect for nature lovers, couples, or adventure seekers wanting authentic Spain - this guide reveals why locals call their restaurants "guachinches" and open them only during harvest season. From sunrise hikes through ancient forests to evening meals where wine flows from family barrels, discover the Tenerife tourists rarely find.
Tenerife is more than package holidays and volcanic tours - it's morning mist rolling through laurel forests, gatherings in family guachinches sharing harvest stories, and the deep satisfaction of eating and drinking somewhere where the ingredients and people are passionately local. Find your way with Marco Polo.
Contents
36 Regional Overview
38 The Northwest & Teide National Park
42 Puerto de la Cruz & Around
50 La Orotava & Around
54 Icod de los Vinos & Around
56 Garachico & Around
61 Parque Nacional del Teide
66 The Northeast
70 Santa Cruz de Tenerife & Around
76 La Laguna & Around
81 Tacoronte & Around
83 Bajamar & Punta del Hidalgo & Around
84 Montañas de Anaga
86 The Southeast
90 Candelaria
91 Güímar & Around
93 El Médano & Around
96 Vilaflor
98 The Southwest
102 Los Cristianos & Around
107 Playa de las Américas/Costa Adeje & Around
116 Los Gigantes & Around
