- Staying in farm hotels such as the Hotel Rural Casablanca helps support farmers and preserve traditional architecture.
- Tour operator First Choice has introduced a range of Greener Holidays, family escapes in island hotels that look after their environment and local community. One such hotel on Tenerife is the Iberostar Bouganville Playa.
The Real Tenerife
About this holiday
If you don't venture outside resorts like Los Christianos or Playa de las Americas the chances are you won't come across the real Tenerife.
Yet you only have to explore a short distance to find yourself on an unspoilt island with a distinct regional culture. For such a small island, Tenerife has an astonishing amount of space set aside as national or regional park. There are well-maintained walking tracks and most parks are served by regular buses. You can download visitor maps from www.webtenerife.com
Take a picnic into the pine forests and hike across the lunar landscape of Mount Teide National Park. Feeling lazy? A cable car takes you to the summit of Teide, highest mountain in Spain.
Lose an afternoon wandering around La Laguna, a colonial settlement now protected as a World Heritage Site.
