Product Description

Comprehensive walking guide book to Tenerife's best walking, published 5 October 2006 replacing our popular '35 Tenerife Walks' guide book. 43 fully detailed walking routes with 1:25,000 scale maps and GPS Waypoints. All 43 routes researched by the authors in 2005/6 making this the only up-to-date Tenerife walking guide book; a real 'Rolls Royce' of a walking guide to the authors' home island. Full GPS information for Waypoint navigation with 'pin-point' accuracy. Large scale map sections for every walking route adapted from Tenerife Hiking Map. Walking routes cover the North (Orotava Valley), Central High Altitude (Las Canadas and Paisaje Lunar), West (Masca/Santiago del Teide), South (Adeje, Arona & coastal routes) plus all new routes in the Anaga. Fully detailed walk descriptions for the 43 routes, with GPS Waypoints, plus notes and comments on Pico del Teide, Montana Blanca and Barranco del Infierno including booking conditions. Large scale maps for each walking route plus regional locator maps and island map. All walking routes rated for 'Effort', 'Time', 'Distance', 'Ascents & Descents', and 'Refreshment' opportunities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45746 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-05
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

outstanding range of routes and all accurate
I'm just back from 3 weeks on Tenerife, walking most days with Walk Tenerife and the Hiking Map. Walk Tenerife offers a wide range of walking routes covering the main walking regions of the island including the Anaga.
Having hiked a couple of coastal routes; Barren Grandeur and Life in the Raw including refeshments at Pepe Y Lola bar in El Puertito, some mid range; Taucho Tour, Fantasia, Queen of the South, and Table Mountain, a couple in the west; True Grit and Saddle Up with its spectacular peaktop viewing point, plus Mighty Guajara, Fortelleza, Rocks de Garcia and both Pasaje Lunar routes do add in the Agua Agria pista option on the western route (its not in any other book), plus Cruz del Carmen Circular and Chamorga Circular spectacular but a tough ending with a 700 metre ascent up the twisting barranco and thank goodness the bar was open when we finally arrived.
Thats quite a lot of routes and they all worked perfectly. We had great weather most days (Feb) making for a superb adventurous winter break. It all worked for us so I would certainly highly recommend both Walk Tenerife and the Hiking Map by the same authors; you won't find anything better either in Uk or on Tenerife.

Excellent guide book for walkers
This excellent book really made our holiday. There are plenty of walks or varying types, lengths etc. and the style is easy going yet accurate. I like the maps which are really clear and better than anything else I have seen for walking on Tenerife. This book took us in several adventures to parts of the island which we would never had found without it.

We already had books and maps from this publisher for Madeira and Mallorca and were pleased to find that the same high standards of research and information applied to the Tenerife book. Highly recommended!

Not for keen hikers
I bought the 'Walk! Tenerife' guide to provide me with ideas and way-descriptions of walks in Tenerife, where I spent the first week in January. I found the guide picked a few nice walks, and most walks I did according to the book I enjoyed. What I then found is that
1. Many of the walks, especially in the Teide area, are the ones that are marked by the national park authorities anyway, so can be done with a leaflet that you pick up at the Info places.
2. A lot of the walks are concentrated in the same area and are even overlapping (e.g. Tamaimo area), so in truth you do not get 43 seperate walks, but rather variations.
3. There is quite a few excellent walking opportunities, paths that are marked on the map (it belongs with the guide) with grey dashed lines (e.g. in the Anaga region) that are left aside and would give the option of circular walking and also more demanding walks.
4. Most walks are rather short, so I often did 2 in one day.
5. The map shows only sections of Tenerife and there is better ones available that show the whole island in one. That makes it easier to put the walks into context.
5. The descriptions of walks seem to focus more on describing the scenery than waymarks for orientation. I often didn't even read through it but just followed the map and isntinct.
6.The essence: Keen walkers get yourself a decent 1:25.000 walking map (even available at the kiosks on the island, or from amazon) and possibly one of the walking guides for more advanced hiking (e.g. Tenerife: The Finest Valley and Mountain Walks, Rother Walking Guides - Europe), had very good experience with that in La Palma.
And believe me, you do not need GPS tracking for walking in Tenerife!