Roque Bermejo, which could be translated in old Spanish as the “Red Rock”, on the easternmost tip of the island of Tenerife, the closest to the European continent, at the foot of the lighthouse of the Cape of Anaga, is the perfect example of what were coastal farms in the Anaga Peninsula. Remote points connected to the rest of the island by sea, as the journey through the steep and forested mountains of Anaga was much more tiresome and long than the maritime alternative.
The Erjos ponds in the highlands of northwest of the island, part of the municipalities of Los Silos and El Tanque, are the most important wetlands on the island of Tenerife. A unique landscape, whose heyday comes after winter rains and that were formed in a waterproof ground arisen as a result of withdrawals of fertile soil for the "sorribado" of coastal areas to form export based plantation areas.
At Tonazaro, you cannot avoid being surprised by the brutal natural cut, the giddiness of its stone walls and its privileged situation as a natural lookout over the lands of the southwestern coast of the island.
The Monte del Agua (The Mountain of the Water), located in Teno, in the north-western side of the island of Tenerife, is along with the forests in the Anaga Mountains, at the other end of the island, the best example of Laurisilva in the Island of Tenerife.
The park, built by public subscription in the twenties of the last century, houses a wonderful collection of exotic plants brought from all five inhabited continents. These exotic collection of plants, along the nearly one hundred years of history of this magnificent Tenerife corner, have become, due to their variety and development, the base of a true magnificent botanical garden, a top world garden of free entry and public enjoyment.
Los Roques de Garcia are a series of rock formations at the base of Mount Teide at 2100 meters altitude, separating the two basins that made originally the Teide National Park, World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which rise at the height of National Parador (National Hotel) over the Plains of Ucanca.
Punta de Teno, is the westernmost end of the island of Tenerife, the most solar exposed area of the island, the area with the largest number of hours of sunlight per year and the nearest point to America.
Sitio Litre Garden is considered the oldest garden in Tenerife. It was Archibald Little, who after inheriting the property from his uncle in 1778, decided to transform it into a palatial recreational home, a true Tenerife mansion, by making the garden richer and much larger.
"Casas de Chinamada" is a tiny troglodyte village in a remote part of Anaga in the northeast of the island of Tenerife. It is a place characterized by its virginity. A rugged environment. A hundred percent natural. A show of ravines, rocks, cliffs, terraces of subsistence agriculture and endemic vegetation, all chaired by the majestic Mount Teide in the distance.
On the north coast of Tenerife, just outside of Puerto de la Cruz, once you pass Loro Park, drive into the Hotel Maritim entrance until the end of the road at the height of the Acapulco apartments and park the car there. There on the most distant point from any building in the front line under the shade of a huge ficus robusta, you enter the path that will lead us to Los Roques.
With 1561m of altitude, the Chinyero is eerily black, located at the foot of the northwestern slope of the majestic Mount Teide on the island of Tenerife. Chinyero was the last volcano to erupt on the island.
It is a coastal, winding, narrow road, one of those roads that you know that lead to one end, and that is, indeed, what Igueste de San Andrés is about, one of the ends of the island. One of those places where the road ends.