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Location: Avda. de Austria, San
Eugenio Alto (Costa de Adeje)
Telephone:922
715 266 / 922 714 270
Fax: 922 714
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Hours: Open Daily from 10:00 to 18:00
Water slides for adults and one for children, the "Rio Bravo", Kamikazes, soft slides, twin, dolphinarium, spiral, trampoline, children's castle, and pool with waterfall are some of the many attractions.
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| Bananera Jardines del Atlántico (Banana Gardens of the Atlantic) |
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Location: South Highway to Valle San Lorenzo, km. 1,400.
Telephone: 922 720 360
Fax:
922 720 522
Hours: guided visits at 10:00, 11:30, 13:00, 15:30 & 16:15
hrs.
Free bus service (guagua) from Los Cristianos, Américas Beach and Ten-Bel.
An exhibit of Tenerife's different traditional crops with special attention to the banana. Includes a museum of farm implements.
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| Bananera El Guanche (Banana Plantation) |
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Location: Carretera Botánico, 43. La Orotava.
Telephone:
922 331 853/ 922 330 017
Hours:
Open from 9.00 to 18.00 hrs
Exhibits of traditional crops such as the banana; numerous species of cactus, plants and tropical fruit trees.
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Location: Casa Museo Insular
de la Vid y el Vino.
North Highway, km. 21. Exit to El
Sauzal.
Telephone: 922 572
535 / 922 572 542
Fax: 922 572 744
Hours: Tuesday to saturday
from 11:00 to 20:00. Sunday and Festive 11:00 to 18:00hrs.
Monday Closed.
In El Sauzal borough, La Baranda is a 17th Century estate house now owned by the Tenerife town council and used to promote quality wines of the island as well as being home to the Museum of Vine and Wine; contains a hall for projections and exhibits, restaurant and bar and an old wine vat in the central patio.
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| Centro de Las Orquídeas (Orchid Centre) |
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Location: Highway to La Galga, nº 3. Arona.
Telephone:
922 765 566
Fax: 922 765 850
Hours: Winter, open daily from 10:00 to 18:00hrs.
Summer: Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00hrs.
A collection of more than 400 species of orchids and other carnivorous plants.
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Location: C/Germinal, s/n. Pinolere. La Orotava
Telephone: 922 33 67 33
Fax: 922 32 26 78
The Pinolere Ethnographic Museum is located in the Ethnographic Park of the same name and is part of the Pinolere Cultural Project promoted by the Canary Traditions Day Cultural Association. This 3,000 square metre space recreates the past agricultural environment as seen through the architecture and socio-cultural artefacts of ordinary life in the Orotava Valley: threshing floors, ovens, tile roofed houses, corrals, thatched houses ("pajares"), and medicinal plant garden; divided into two distinct thematic areas with a common connection - its own surroundings - the Pinolere Integral Nature Park.
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Botánico de La Orotava. Hijuela del Botánico |
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Location: C/Tomás Pérez,
s/n. La Orotava.
Telephone:
922 330 050
Address: Open daily from 09:00 to 14:00hrs.
Located in back of the La Orotava town hall, the Hijuela del Botánico is a romantic garden (4.000 sq.m) created in 1788 by the 6th Marquis of Villanueva del Prado.
Of interest for the variety of palms, bromeliads, arums and mulberries (moracea) as well as trees notable for their size, age, beauty or remote origins.
The Garden, as a scientific institution, engages in international seed exchanges, maintains a herbarium especially dedicated to the flora and vegetation of the archipelago.
It was declared a Historic Garden on July 29th, 1994.
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| Las Gangarras Country House |
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Location: Buzanada, Arona.
Telephone: 922 766 423/ 608 012 689
This is a typical Canary country house designed to illustrate the cultural identity of the people.
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| El Loro Park (Parrot) |
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Location: Punta Brava, Puerto
de la Cruz.
Telephone: 922
373 841
Fax: 922 375 021
Hours:
Open daily from 8:30 to 17.00hrs
El Loro Park offers a new concept in zoos as well as many other attractions. The largest collection of parrots in the world within its 120,000 sq.m grounds.
Shows featuring dolphins and sea lions, one of Europe's largest aquariums, a bat cave, an orchid house, and a penguin house with 200 residents in an environment reproducing their natural habitat in the South Pole.
Free bus service every twenty minutes from Martiánez beach (Colón Avenue).
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| El Drago Butterfly House (Mariposario) |
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Location: Canarias
Avenue, s/n. Icod de los Vinos.
Telephone:
922 815 167
Hours: Open daily from
9:30 to 18:00
This is a tropical garden with a covered enclosure where almost 100 species of butterflies from every continent can fly freely while the visitor enjoys them in this natural setting.
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Location: El Ramal, 35. La Orotava.
Telephone: 922 333 509
Hours: From 9:00 to 18:00
Subtropical garden in the centre of La Orotava valley with a collection of plants and animals as well as a restaurant and cafeteria-bar.
Camel rides (or ponies for the little ones) through the gardens.
Free bus service from Puerto de la Cruz and Playa de Martiánez Beach (Colón Avenue).
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Location: Junto a la Iglesia Parroquial
de San Marcos, en Icod de Los Vinos. Plaza de la Constitución,
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Address: 922 815 631
Hours: Open daily from 10:00
to 18:00
The main attraction in Icod de Los Vinos is the world famous 'Millennium Dragon Tree' (Drago Milenario) and one of the Canary's most important natural symbols of its culture and history.
The dragon tree (Dracaena Draco Canariensis) considered the oldest in the archipelago, (its real age has been put at 800 years), measures 17 metres high with a base circumference of some 20 metres.
Especially educational for the visitor is the garden that surrounds the tree with native plants including little dragon trees, thistles, spurges, etc.
The church plaza nearby contains other botanical species labelled for easier identification.
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| Águilas del Teide Ecopark |
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Location: Arona. Access by road from Los Cristianos to Arona and a further 3km on.
Telephone:
922 753 131 / 922 753 001 / 922 753 063
Fax:
922 753 062
Hours: Winter: 10:00
to 18:00. Summer: 09:00 to 18:00
Offers a trip through 72.000 square metres of lush vegetation with a truly outstanding collection of birds of prey.
As well there are penguins, hippopotamus, pelicans, and crocodiles, among others in an environment that reflects their natural habitats. |
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Location: San Roque Lookout,
Vilaflor.
Telephone: 922 709
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This is a faithful representation of the lifestyle of the Guanches (natives), including folk presentations and handicrafts.
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Location: Arona. Access by South Highway - Exit 26. Llano Azul, Los Cristianos.
Telephone: 922 795 424
Fax:
922 791 783
Hours: From
10:00 to 18:00hrs
Interesting collection of cactus, succulents and exotic birds.
The Amazonian flora is housed in a climate controlled greenhouse with brightly coloured butterflies, birds and animals.
Humming birds flitting among the tropical plants are the main attraction.
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Location: C/ Chacona, s/n, Güímar.
Telephone: 922 514 510
Fax: 922 514 511
A group of six scaled pyramids in the Chacona district.
This is a trip through the cultures which includes the Chacona House Museum, auditorium, cinema, theme shop and cafeteria.
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Location: Camino Sitio Litre
s/n, Puerto de la Cruz.
Telephone:
922 382 417
Fax: 922 384 051
Hours: Open daily from 9:30 to 18.00.
At more than 200 years of age, this is the oldest garden in Tenerife and part of a private mansion that dates back to 1730.
The owners have decided to open their magic garden to the public to share its marvels such as the large collection of the orchids of Tenerife and the oldest and largest dragon tree in Puerto de la Cruz.
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Location: Llano Azul, Arona.
Telephone: 922 790 720
Hours: Open from 9:30 to 18:00hrs.
This is a zoological garden in the south of Tenerife that specializes in the care of primates.
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