El Hierro Day Trip from Tenerife - Bus & Ferry Tour

Our El Hierro Day Trip from Tenerife is a perfect option to discover the westernmost, smallest and the less-visited island of Canary archipelago. We pick you up early morning from our pick-up points located very close to the popular hotels along the coast of Tenerife South, from the resorts of Los Cristianos, Playa de Las Americas, Costa Adeje, and Playa Paraiso. The coach with your guide takes you to the harbor of Los Cristianos wherefrom we take our ferry to the port of La Estaca in El Hierro.

El Hierro is the last piece of land in the Atlantic ocean before you cross it to South America and the island by itself is extremely interesting, because of its unique nature combining volcanic scenery and endemic rainforest, but also El Hierro possesses one of the most unusual seabeds on the planet!

That's are just some of the reasons why the island of El Hierro (what literally means 'the Iron' in English) was declared at the Nature Reserve and Global Geological Park by UNESCO. Another interesting historical fact is, that just before 1885 El Hierro was counted as the prime meridian used on the maps to navigate the ocean.

The El Hierro Day Trip from Tenerife offers you a perfect day adventure as a mix of experiences with a ferry ride to this ferry island and the coach tour of El Hierro. The way from Tenerife to El Hierro by ferry will take us 2 hours and 45 minutes and once we arrived, our coach is already waiting for you to take you to the extremely scenic and interesting ride around the island. Along with the excursion on El Hierro, we will stop and visit the following places:

- Mirador de Isora - this elevated viewpoint offers you scenic views on the coastal area of El Hierro island called Las Playas.

- Mirador de Jinama - this viewpoint discovers you panoramic views of the Valley of Golfo.

- Natural Reserve of Frontera - this a pearl of El Hierro, endemic rainforest - one of a few preserved rests of the huge laurel forest that was covering all Atlantic islands, South of Europe and North of Africa millions of years ago.

- Church of the Frontera - also called Iglesia de La Candelaria, a 200 hundred years old beautiful church and here we have time to walk a bit and have cup tea or coffee.

- La Maceta Pools - here we stop by the tidal pools formed with lava and forces of the ocean. We wouldn't swim here, but this natural attraction is worth to stop and admire.

- Local Restaurant - here we stop to have a typical lunch of Canary Islands and, surely, local wine - this is included in the El Hierro Day Trip from Tenerife price!

- Punta Grande Hotel - just another attraction we will visit. This tiny hotel has the title of the Smallest Hotel in the World!

- Mirador de La Pena - here we do a very nice photo-stop offering an impressive view on the Rocks of Salmor. What's interesting, this viewpoint was projected and set up at this place by architect Cesar Manrique famous for connecting his art with the beauty of nature of Canary Islands.

- Quesadillas Bakery - here will be our last stop to see how locals do traditional cheese sponge cake and moreover, you will have the opportunity to taste it by yourself!

At the end of the tour around El Hierro, we come back to the port where our ferry already waiting for us to take us back to Tenerife. On arrival at Los Cristianos, our bus is waiting to take you back to your Hotel. You can be sure, you will always keep in your memory the El Hierro Day Trip as one of the best experiences in Tenerife!