Mount Teide and Tenerife North with 5 Course Tasting Menu Shore Excursion

Would you like to enjoy a day in touch with nature, and entice your palate with the best gastronomy offered by Tenerife’s north?. On this experience you will enjoy impressive landscapes and contrasts.

On our way to Tenerife´s highlands you will discover the treasures of the Corona Forestal Nature Park, while pines scents awaken your senses and fill your lungs with fresh air.

Atop the island, the landscape turns into volcanic cones, craters, lava, dikes, elevated rock formations and a large variety of endemic flora and fauna. Teide National Park is one of the great wonders of the world and it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Home the majestic Teide stratovolcano which, at 3.718 metres above sea level, is the highest peak in Spain.

The tour will continue with a visit to the Orotava Valley, where you will discover the best-kept secrets of centuries of rich agricultural tradition. From the field to the table, you will enjoy a delicious lunch at a traditional restaurant.

Stop At: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands

At the meeting point, located by the Port´s Marina. We will briefly make an introduction of the tour before leave the city heading to Tenerife´s highlands.

Duration: 15 minutes

Pass By: La Esperanza, La Esperanza, Tenerife, Canary Islands

On our route to the highlands of Tenerife you will discover the treasures of the Corona Forestal Nature Park, while pines scents awaken your senses and fill your lungs with fresh air.

Stop At: La Tarta del Teide, 38300 La Orotava, Tenerife Spain

Overlooking the pine forest, the beautiful views are worthy of the best photos. On most days, the trade winds drive little fluffy clouds across the sky: a fresh breeze that gives us life. Here you will be amazed to see the ‘sea of clouds’, a visually impressive phenomenon sure to blow your mind.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Teide National Park, 38300, Tenerife Spain

Atop the island, the landscape turns into volcanic cones, craters and lava, dikes and elevated rock formations. At these heights it boasts a large variety of endemic flora and fauna. Teide National Park is one of the great wonders of the world, and it is for this reason that it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Here the majestic Teide stratovolcano awaits you, which, at 3,718 metres above sea level, is the highest peak in Spain.

Duration: 2 hours

Pass By: Orotava Valley, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife Spain

The tour will continue with a visit to the Orotava Valley, where you will discover the best-kept secrets of centuries of rich agricultural tradition, through the production of grapes, cereals, potatoes, chestnuts and tropical fruits, shaping a landscape of lush green areas and stone terraces everywhere across its slopes.

Stop At: Restaurante Guachinche Bodegón Casa Matías, Cam. de los Guanches, 2, 38300 La Florida, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

From the field to the table, you will enjoy a delicious lunch at a traditional restaurant where some of this area’s most typical Canary Island dishes are prepared in an authentic environment.

Duration: 1 hour

Sample Menu

• Roasted goat’s cheese with “mojo” and homemade jams
• Sweet potato mille-feuille with wreckfish and red “mojo”
• Chickpea stew
• Wreckfish with onions, “pretty potatoes” (papas bonitas) and green “mojo”
• Canary-style rabbit in salmorejo sauce
• Gofio Mousse with palm honey