Teide Tenerife Volcano

The eruptions that took place 150.000 years ago marked the actual relief of the entire island. That period the Teide was much bigger than in the actuality, but the peak broke and fell down to the sea, creating the Cañadas the Tenerife. Thanks of new eruptions there is the Teide as we know in the present.

Cristobal Colón wrote in one of his diaries, when he was near Tenerife, that "there was fire in the highest mountain”. This corroborates that the Teide has so many eruptions in the close centuries, not milliard years ago.

In the year 1954 the Teide and all the circus which is around it is called the National Park of the Cañadas of Tenerife, although is know as National Park of the Teide. From here it started a campaign to convince the UNESCO of declaring it Humanity Patrimony, that it did en June 2007.

You can sleep in the Mountain shelter of Altavista, with capacity for fifty mountaineers, and a cable railway that comes from 2.350 meters to La Rambleta, at 3.555 meters, in just a few minutes. Walking to the peak is forbidden, although you can get a special permission in the offices of the National Park of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

The Teide volcano creates a strange visual aspect in the island because the weather is soft during all the year and, in winter, you can enjoy with a snowed landscape at the top. The Teide also divides the island of Tenerife in two different parts not only in the weather, also in the flora and the fauna you can search.

Once you come to La Rambleta (where the cable railway ends), if you want to go up to the top by the path Telesforo Bravo, you must to have a special permission. You can deal with the permission personally at the National Park Office or try it by fax, email or post. It depends on the way you choose to get the permission the time on advance you have to do that. You have to note there are some days the cable railway doesn't work doubt of the wind: the wind can never been more than 80km/h.

• By post: one month before the date you have chosen.
• By fax or email: one week before the date you have chosen.

You can deal with the permission just in the Teide National Park Office:
Oficina del P. N. del Teide
C/ Emilio Calzadilla, nº 5 - 4ª planta
Phone number: 922 290 129 - 922 290 183 ; Fax: 922 244 788
E-mail: teide@oapn.mma.es
38002 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Timetable: 9am to 2pm from Monday to Friday (you must take the ID of all people who are asking for the permission, in each one you can ask for 10 people).

The permission let you go up to the peak one day and in a special time and you cannot change it. Once you ask for your permission it depends if there are places to go up (a determinate number of people can go up in the different timetables) and, once you have received, you won’t be able to go up if the Park Administration has closed it for anything.

There are different timetables to do the activity and you may pay attention to the timetable of the cable railway to be at the time to go up by the Telesforo Bravo:

• From 9 am to 11 am.
• From 11 am to 1 pm.
• From 1 pm to 3 pm.
• From 3 pm to 5 pm.

You don’t have to forget you walk under your own responsibility.