Product Description

This travel guide to Tenerife has been updated, and includes revised essays and new photographs. It also features an updated, practical "Travel Tips" section, with details on places to stay, eat out and have fun. All the tours and sights with the guide have been re-tested by a local expert.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2600872 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 270 pages

Customer Reviews

A highly informative and comprehensive tome.
My wife and I had never been to Tenerife and this book was invaluable in helping us to see beyond (and escape from) the white-washed walls of Playa de las Americas, and into the past history of the island.

We took the Insight Guide and the AA Essential guide with us, along with the Discovery Walking guides. The AA Essential guide was a useful 'top level summary' of the Islands attractions, and if size matters and you are time-limited then this small thin book would do the job. The Discovery Walking guides were also suitably light, and offer more than just directions, often giving perceptive local details not contained in either of the 'branded' books.

If your thirst for knowledge is greater, then the "Insight Guide to Tenerife (and the Western Canary Islands)" provides some diverting reading. When I got bored with the novel, I picked up this book and read a feature. I particularly enjoyed the autobiography extracts from the Victorian artist Marianne North, which included some of her paintings. The feature on the Canarian Dog was also enlightening, and having read it we 'suddenly noticed' these imposing mastiffs.

My only criticisms? The travel tips section is a little thin (less than 20 pages out of 302), but that said we did use it to successfully book two overnight stays, and after all you have to leave something to chance discovery. In 'What to Wear' it said 'There is no need to pack thick clothing'... not true if you find yourself in a stiff breeze at the base of Mt Teide waiting for the sunrise - with puddles of water frozen solid around you!