The Tenerife Walking Festival will take place from May 21st to 25th 2019. This is a Hiking Festival open to nature lovers from all over the world. The Festival combines daily hikes along some of the natural places of the Island with a program of cultural, social and gastronomic activities.
You can join the Tenerife Walking Festival with your group of hikers, with the family or even alone.
Departure point
All routes will depart from Puerto de la Cruz town centre: Plaza de Europa Bus Stop. Half an hour before the departure time you will meet there with the Tenerife Walking Festival team. check it on the map
Departure time
The departure time for the Tenerife Walking Festival routes is 08:30 hours, except the routes which have a specific departure time.
Accommodation
Tenerife and Puerto de la Cruz accounts with a large accommodation offer, from five star hotels to more economic options, from resort type accommodation to rural hotels or cottage houses, you will find the accommodation that will suit your taste.
You will find full information about accommodation in Tenerife at the accommodation section on this webpage
Picnic
The Tenerife Walking Festival can arrange your dayly picnic for the routes. I has an additional cost of 6€/person. In case you require it, please confirm it when you register. The picinic includes: a sandwich, a piece of fruit, a bottle of water, a sweet
Note: in the case you have any alergy or gastronomic requirement, please let us know at the “notes” section of the registration form.
Hiking Shoes and clothes
Using a proper hiking shoes is required by the organization. The guides must take care of the safety of the participants, so, if your shoes are not appropriate for hiking, he/she might refuse your participation on the route for your own security.
Please bring water, a small backpack and confortable clothes. We also recommend you to bring sunscreen.
Languages
The official lenguages of the Tenerife Walking Festival are: Spanish, English, Germand and French.
Groups
The groups will have a maximum of 25 people and a minimum of 20. In case there are less than 10 people, the organisation reserves the right to relocate participants to another route or cancel it.
Reccommended airport in Tenerife
There are 2 airports in Tenerife (Tenerife Norte Airport y Tenerife South Airport). Considering that Puerto de la Cruz is the departure point for all the routes, we recommend you to fly to the Tenerife North Airport. From there, you can take the public transportation or a taxi to Puerto the la Cruz.
Registration
You can register on the Tenerife Walking Festival by completing the Registration form of this web, where you will find all the information about the services that includes the registration.
The registration on the Tenerife Walking Festival costs 30€ per person, you have to add this amount to the routes prices that you will participate (at least 3).
Discount for the routes: Federation Members
Federation members
All Mountain Federation members of a 3€ discount when registering for the Tenerife Walking Festival Routes.
Please make sure you click on the Federation box to benefit from this discount.
Please notice that the organization will ask your valid federation id when you pick up your registration package at the festival hospitality desk.
Tenerife Walking Festival participation rules
You can check the Tenerife Walking Festival rules on the following link. To join the Tenerife Walking Festival, you must accept all the organization rules.
“Tenerife Walking Festival Rules“
Free visits in Puerto de la Cruz
The registration at the Tenerife Walking Festival includes guided visit to some points of interest in Puerto de la Cruz:
- Lago Martiánez – following César Manrique’s footprints – 9:00h Sunday 27
- Puerto de la Cruz garden visit – 11:30h Sunday 27
The Festival organization will send you full information about the dates and timetable of the visits a few weeks before the Festival starts, so that you can register.
These visits are free of charge for the Tenerife Walking Festival participants.
Tenerife Walking Festival Environmental Commitment: “Zero footprint”
The Tenerife Walking Festival is an event fully committed with the preservation of our local environment and conscious that the climate change is one of our biggest challenges on the XXI Century.
The Ecological footprint is a the metric that allows us to calculate human pressure on the planet and come up with results on how our activity affects our environment.
So, using the international footprint standards, the Tenerife Walking Festival will calculate the event impact over the environment.
Once we have the results, we will organise a tree plantation, using endemic species, with the objective to reach the zerofootprint.
With the plantation of endemic species, the Tenerife Walking Festival will help to the recovery of the local forests and will show its commitment with the fight against Climate Change.
Speeches
The Tenerife Walking Festival will account with some conferences about nature, hiking….
Shortly you will find detailed information about the speeches on this web page.
The attendance is free for the people registered on the Tenerife Walking Festival.
TWF 2018 Information Point
From the 23rd to the 26th of May from 10am to 7pm, at Plaza de Europa (Puerto de la Cruz).
