La Palma Island Day Trip from Tenerife

Itinerary of the La Palma Island Day Trip from Tenerife:

• The tour starts from collecting in the ferry terminal of Los Cristianos at 8:00 AM where you meet your tour guide and other tour participants.
• If you stay in other locations of Tenerife South like Costa Adeje, Las Americas, etc, you will have to come to the port of Los Cristianos by yourself using a taxi or public transport, or simply walking if you don't stay too far.
• Once we are all together, we board on the ferry to start our journey to excursion tenerife La Palma island. On the ferry, you can have a breakfast or just coffee (not included) or simply enjoy the ocean and the island's view as the ferry getting you to La Palma Island.
• Once we docked in Santa Cruz de La Palma, island's capital town, we take seats in a comfy mini-coach and start our exploration of the island. Along with the La Palma Island Day Trip from Tenerife, you will visit the following significant attractions of La Palma tours:

SANTA CRUZ excursion DE LA PALMA. We will have a walking mini-tour to discover the island's capital founded by Alonso Fernández de Lugo on May 3, 1493. The town by itself is worthy of cultural interest because of its historical and artistic value. Santa Cruz de La Palma is a typical colonial-style town. An interesting fact is once upon a time it was the 3rd biggest harbor of Spain after Seville and Antwerp.

LA CALLE REAL (Calle O’Daly and Calle Pérez de Brito) to get to PLAZA DE ESPAÑA offering you an incredibly beautiful architectural ensemble in Renaissance style in the entire Canary Islands with on Town Hall, the Church of El Salvador, the public fountain, and the oldest civil statue in the Canary Islands.

MERCADO DE LA RECOVA with its typical palm products and where you can taste the sugar cane juice, called “guarapo”, squeezed at the moment from sugar canes grown on the island.

THE BALCONIES OF AVENIDA MARÍTIMA that constitute the greatest example of Portuguese-style balconies that are preserved in the Canary Islands and that today are the most photographed and painted in the entire city.

Once the bus is back we will pass next to the CASTILLO DE SANTA CATALINA of the XVII century and BARCO DE LA VIRGEN, emblem of the city that nowadays is a naval museum and one of the most important scenes during the Bajada de la Virgen festivities.

BOSQUE DE LOS TILOS, declared biosphere reserve already in 1983 “the first in the whole of the Canary Islands” when walking between water galleries, we visit an exuberant laurel forest, until we reach the famous waterfall that will leave us breathless. The most daring will be able to bathe under the force of its refreshing waters! SAN ANDRÉS, a beautiful town that hides an interesting past between the old sugar mills and the infinite banana plants that today make up its landscape and where we will have the chance to visit places like: CHARCO AZUL, considered one of the 10 best natural pools in Spain. Just seeing it makes you want to take a dip!

DESTILERÍA RON ALDEA, a family business that continues to produce, in a traditional way since the sixties, very high-quality rums. Here we will have the opportunity to visit the old factory, to know its products and also to taste them.

SANCTUARY OF THE VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES, which is located in the upper area of Santa Cruz. The church of the patron saint of the island inside preserves the oldest Marian image in the whole of the Canary Islands, a terracotta carving with precious jewels, the most valued in the entire archipelago.

Along the tour, we will have a traditional lunch in a local restaurant.

Once our ferry docks back in the port of Los Cristianos, here our La Palma Island Day Trip from Tenerife ends leaving you with a lot of nice memories.

WARNING! The itinerary of LA PALMA Island Tour may vary, depend on the tour guide, ferry schedule and the day of the tour.