If you’ve spent the morning learning to surf at El Medio, you already know one little stretch of Tenerife quite well. You know where you first managed to stand up, where you left your sandals and where to find our terrace afterwards. Over lunch at Ocean Freaks Café, the question often turns to tomorrow. What else would you like to see?
Canaguia is a local video travel guide to Tenerife, available in English, Spanish and German. We like it for a simple reason: two people can leave the same surf lesson with very different ideas of a good day out. Here are two places to start.
Teide: a day away from the coast
Canaguia – la guía en vídeo de Tenerife (canaguia.com), por Ralph Weyerstrass
After a morning spent watching the water, the volcanic landscape around Teide is a change of scene. Start by deciding what you actually want from the day. Is it a walk, a stop at a viewpoint, or a few hours taking photographs? That choice makes it easier to decide how much ground to cover. If you’re travelling with someone who didn’t surf, let them pick the first stop.
Los Gigantes: a different view of the Atlantic
Canaguia – la guía en vídeo de Tenerife (canaguia.com), por Ralph Weyerstrass
If you’d happily spend another day by the ocean, make the cliffs of Los Gigantes the focus. At El Medio, you might have spent half the lesson looking over your shoulder for the next wave. Here you can take your time and look up. For a relaxed afternoon, we’d pick one place to see the cliffs, leave time for a meal and save Teide for another day.
Build a plan that fits your holiday
Canaguia’s free trip planner asks 23 short questions. A few make a real difference in Tenerife: are you driving or taking the guagua, who’s coming along, and do you prefer a quiet pace or a full day? You can also tell it how much you care about beaches, water activities and food. It suggests an itinerary without asking you to register.
Try it together over coffee after your lesson. Start with how you’ll get around, pick one place everyone wants to see, and leave a little room for whatever you find along the way.