Tenerife, La Gomera & La Palma

Private transfer from Tenerife airport. Santa Cruz’s palm-lined ramblas and the auditorium on the sea, then up to San Cristóbal de La Laguna — the island’s old university capital and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, whose grid of colonial streets became the blueprint for cities across the Americas.

• Santa Cruz seafront & Auditorio
• La Laguna UNESCO old town
• Colonial mansions & convents
• First Canarian dinner

Overnight: La Laguna or Santa Cruz

The Anaga massif is the island’s oldest corner — knife-edge ridges cloaked in laurisilva, the fog-fed laurel forest of the Tertiary era. We walk among moss-hung trees in the Bosque de los Enigmas, drop to the hamlet of Taganana between the cliffs, and eat fresh fish at a beach shack on Benijo’s black sand as the rollers come in.

• Laurisilva forest walk
• Cruz del Carmen viewpoints
• Taganana village
• Benijo black-sand beach lunch

Overnight: La Laguna or Puerto de la Cruz

Above the clouds into Teide National Park — a UNESCO-listed volcanic wilderness at 2,000 metres. The cable car climbs to 3,555 metres for views across four islands. We walk among the Roques de García and the lava fields of Las Cañadas, and stay for sunset and stargazing: Teide’s sky is among the clearest in the world, protected by law.

• Teide cable car to 3,555 m
• Roques de García walk
• Las Cañadas lava landscapes
• Sunset & guided stargazing

Overnight: Parador de Teide or Orotava valley

The hamlet of Masca, clinging to a knife-back ridge inside Tenerife’s most dramatic gorge — long hidden, once a pirate refuge. Then the north coast: Garachico, the island’s loveliest town, rebuilt after the 1706 eruption, with natural lava pools; and Icod’s thousand-year-old dragon tree, sacred to the Guanches.

• Masca gorge & village
• Garachico lava pools & old town
• Drago Milenario at Icod
• La Orotava historic centre (optional)

Overnight: Los Cristianos area

The morning ferry to San Sebastián de La Gomera — where Columbus took on water before crossing the ocean. Into Garajonay National Park, a UNESCO site protecting the finest surviving laurel forest on Earth. At a mountain restaurant we hear the silbo gomero, the whistled language that carries across the ravines and is still taught in every Gomeran school.

• Ferry Los Cristianos–San Sebastián
• Garajonay laurel forest walk
• Silbo gomero demonstration
• Columbus wells & old town

Overnight: La Gomera

La Gomera unfolds in giant ravines. Valle Gran Rey drops through palm-terraced walls to black-sand coves; Agulo, a red-roofed pocket of a town on a shelf above the ocean, gazes at Teide across the water. Late ferry back to Tenerife.

• Valle Gran Rey terraces
• Agulo village & Teide views
• Mirador de Abrante glass balcony
• Return ferry to Tenerife

Overnight: Los Cristianos or Santa Cruz

The short hop to La Palma. Santa Cruz de La Palma is one of Spain’s best-kept secrets — a perfectly preserved 16th-century port town of wooden balconies, cobbled streets and Indiano mansions built on Americas trade. The replica of Columbus’s Santa María and the Naval Museum tell the story.

• Crossing to La Palma
• Santa Cruz de La Palma old town
• Wooden balconies of Avenida Marítima
• Plaza de España Renaissance ensemble

Overnight: Santa Cruz de La Palma

The Caldera de Taburiente — an eight-kilometre erosion crater with walls nearly two kilometres high, the island’s green heart and a national park since 1954. We walk from the Mirador de los Brecitos among Canary pines and waterfalls, or take the rim viewpoints of La Cumbrecita if you prefer a gentler day.

• Caldera de Taburiente walk
• La Cumbrecita viewpoints
• Canary pine forests
• Los Llanos de Aridane

Overnight: western La Palma

To the island’s summit at 2,426 metres: the Roque de los Muchachos hosts one of the world’s most important observatories, including the largest single telescope on Earth. Then the route of the volcanoes south along the island’s spine, to the edge of Tajogaite — the volcano born in 2021, Europe’s newest land — and down to the salt pans and lighthouse of Fuencaliente, where vines grow again on the lava.

• Roque de los Muchachos observatory
• Gran Telescopio Canarias (exterior)
• Tajogaite 2021 volcano edge
• Fuencaliente salt pans & Malvasía tasting

Overnight: Santa Cruz de La Palma

A last stroll through Santa Cruz de La Palma — coffee under the balconies, a final look at the Atlantic — before your private transfer to the airport. Ten days, three islands, from the roof of Spain to the newest land in Europe.

• Final morning in Santa Cruz de La Palma
• Private transfer to La Palma airport

Overnight: End of tour