{"id":14001,"date":"2014-11-18T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=14001"},"modified":"2026-11-07T19:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:41:56","slug":"tenerife-la-gomera-walking-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=14001","title":{"rendered":"Tenerife & La Gomera Walking Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-IMG_5495\"<\/a>Sally <\/a>and I decided that it was about time we gave the two wheels a rest and give the \u00a0Scarpa boots & Leki poles an airing\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 Sally’s\u00a0criteria was it had to be warm and hilly! Since Mr T would only allow her two weeks of and it was November we came up with the Canary islands, \u00a0particularly Tenerife and La Gomera. So of we flew with Easyjet from Gatwick. Only to discover on arrival that Ryanair passengers from Stansted were collecting their baggage in the airport \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

A quick taxi ride (\u20ac30) and we were at the docks and straight on the awaiting ship (\u20ac56 each way) making it a smooth passage to our apartment in San Sebastian<\/a> booked a couple of weeks ago on booking.com. We booked the rest of the accommodation as we went, invariably\u00a0the night before we arrived\u00a0(Yep, I’m that organised).<\/p>\n

The walking & weather were excellent every day with some\u00a0days outstanding like the walk down the Masca Valley &\u00a0Las Poyatas to El Cedro (here is a cool site with trail lists<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Here is a table of all our walks with links to the GPS\/GPX tracks we did and my photographs:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
2014 Date<\/th>Place<\/th>Hotel<\/th>Route gpx (Strava)<\/th>Photos (G+)<\/th>Steps (Fitbit)<\/th>Miles (Fitbit)<\/th>Ascent feet (Fitbit)<\/th>KCals (Fitbit)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mon 3 Nov<\/td>La Gomera - San Sebastian<\/td>Apartamentos San Sebasti\u00e1n<\/a><\/td>San Sebastian to El Cabrito<\/a><\/td>45 Pics<\/a><\/td>31121<\/td>14.27<\/td>2320<\/td>4247<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue 4 Nov<\/td>La Gomera - San Sebastian<\/td>Apartamentos San Sebasti\u00e1n<\/a><\/td>San Sebastian to La Casetas loop<\/a><\/td>62 pics<\/a><\/td>31200<\/td>14.31<\/td>2180<\/td>3861<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed 5 Nov<\/td>La Gomera - San Sebastian<\/td>Apartamentos San Sebasti\u00e1n<\/a><\/td>Gran Rey to Arure<\/a><\/td>74 pics<\/a><\/td>22555<\/td>10.34<\/td>3350<\/td>3116<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu 6 Nov<\/td>La Gomera - San Sebastian<\/td>Apartamentos San Sebasti\u00e1n<\/a><\/td>San Sebastian to Laja via GR131-Stage1<\/a><\/td>80 pics<\/a><\/td>26724<\/td>12.25<\/td>3670<\/td>4334<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri 7 Nov<\/td>La Gomera - San Sebastian<\/td>Apartamentos San Sebasti\u00e1n<\/a><\/td>Hermigua El Cedro loop<\/a><\/td>70 pics<\/a><\/td>25997<\/td>11.92<\/td>3070<\/td>3583<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sat 8 Nov<\/td>Tenerife - Santiago del Teide <\/td>La Casona del patio<\/a><\/td>Explore TF65 around Santiago del Tiede<\/a><\/td>43 pics<\/a><\/td>25676<\/td>11.8<\/td>1400<\/td>3549<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sun 9 Nov<\/td>Tenerife - Santiago del Teide <\/td>La Casona del patio<\/a><\/td>Santiago del Tiede to Masca Beach<\/a><\/td>91 pics<\/a><\/td>26259<\/td>12.04<\/td>1440<\/td>5007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon 10 Nov<\/td>Tenerife - Teide<\/td>Teidi Parador<\/a><\/td>Walk to cable car onTiede<\/a>
\nTiede walk below summit<\/a><\/td>		80 pics<\/a><\/td>15047<\/td>6.9<\/td>660<\/td>7394<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue 11 Nov<\/td>Tenerife - Teide<\/td>Teidi Parador<\/a><\/td>Circular walk below Tiede<\/a><\/td>50 pics<\/a><\/td>27031<\/td>12.4<\/td>1360<\/td>4771<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed 12 Nov<\/td>Tenerife - Teide<\/td>Teidi Parador<\/a><\/td>Hike up Tiede to top station of cable car<\/a>
\nPortillo information centre walk<\/a><\/td>		46 pics<\/a><\/td>25265<\/td>11.59<\/td>4510<\/td>4168<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu 13 Nov<\/td>Tenerife - San Miguel<\/td>Hotel Rural<\/a><\/td>Roques de Garcia loop<\/a><\/td>102 pics<\/a><\/td>27432<\/td>12.58<\/td>2660<\/td>3775<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri 14 Nov<\/td>Tenerife - San Miguel<\/td>Hotel Rural<\/a><\/td>San Miguel - The Camel trail<\/a><\/td>82 pics<\/a><\/td>32875<\/td>15.08<\/td>440<\/td>4568<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sat 15 Nov<\/td>Tenerife - Golf del Sur<\/td>Royal Park Albatros<\/a><\/td>La Laguna town walking<\/td>45 Pics<\/a><\/td>18212<\/td>8.35<\/td>350<\/td>2909<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sun 16 Nov<\/td>Tenerife - El M\u0117dano<\/td>Flight home<\/td>Montana Roja<\/a><\/td>64 pics<\/a><\/td>16646<\/td>7.65<\/td>850<\/td>2918<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Totals<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>934 pics<\/td>352040<\/td>161.5<\/td>28260<\/td>58200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

I can recommend the island for walking & don’t be put of by the horrors of Los Cristianos \/ Playa de Las Americas ( where I ended up renting a car to make a fast escape) & Los Gigantes. The beaches behind the airport are excellent & quiet. The local bus service is also good although the first buses don’t leave until 10am from San Sebastian.<\/p>\n

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Sally and I decided that it was about time we gave the two wheels a rest and give the \u00a0Scarpa boots & Leki poles an airing\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 Sally’s\u00a0criteria was it had to be warm and hilly! Since Mr T would only allow her two weeks of and it was November we came up with the Canary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,30,31,33],"tags":[],"wpgpxmaps_activity":[],"class_list":["post-14001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-travel-blog","category-travel-blogging","category-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100298,"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001\/revisions\/100298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14001"},{"taxonomy":"wpgpxmaps_activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpgpxmaps_activity&post=14001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}