Walking on Tenerife

by Dillon, Paddy

• ISBN13: 9781852847937
• ISBN10: 185284793X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-05-12
• Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited

Summary

The latest in Paddy Dillon's series of guides to the Canary Islands, this guide covers all the best walking to be had on this hugely popular island, including routes along the GR131. With distance and difficulty ranging from short and easy to long and arduous there is suitable challenge for walkers of all abilities here, on 45 routes that highlight Tenerife's beautiful landscape.

With the high-altitude Parque Nacional del Teide and lush laurisilva forests of Anaga, Tenerife has excellent natural scenery all over the island. The highest mountain on Spanish territory, El Teide, is also located here. The routes are marked by a network of new signposts. Shorter routes can be linked together, with further traditional routes linking mountain villages. The book also includes details of the island's bus services and local facilities to help readers enjoy walking on the island to the full.

Author Biography

Paddy Dillon is a prolific outdoor writer with over 60 guidebooks to his name, as well as more than a dozen booklets and brochures. He writes for a number of outdoor magazines and other publications, and produces material for tourism groups and other organisations. He lives near the Lake District and has walked in every county in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; writing about walks in every one of them. He has led guided walks and walked extensively in Europe, as well as in Nepal, Tibet, Africa and the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the US.