Orientation
Tenerife is symbolically divided into three parts: the green north, sunburnt south and volcanic center, crowned by the mighty Teide volcano. Numbering little more than 2000 km2 of the area of the island is the largest in the archipelago – in practice it means, that it is about four times smaller than the Opolskie Voivodeship, and four times larger than Warsaw, making, that in a few days you can visit practically the entire area.
North and South are so different, like water and fire. On the north, where it often rains, mainly islanders live and relax. The most charming and traditional towns and villages are also located there, such as the first capital, The lagoon, famous for its beautiful 17th-century tenement houses, la Orotava or the fishing port of Garachico. The sunburned south is less populated, not counting, of course, several million tourists a year, who in search of sun come to the resorts of Los Cristianos and Playa Amćricas. Difficult conditions did not favor settlement, therefore, there are fewer monuments of architecture or art. Many people choose to stay in the south of the island, because of the guaranteed sun and good weather and the possibility; arranging day trips to various parts of the island.
Arrival
Plane
Tenerife is the only island, which has two airports. The first built on the island – rodeos – more often called Tenerife Norte, by the end of the years
80. XX w. handled all air connections. When, with the development of mass tourism, the airport near Santa Cruz was no longer sufficient, it was decided to build a second port in the south of the island. Reina Sofia opened in 1978 r 'known rather as Tenerife Sur, took over most of the flights – today supports 8 million passengers a year, while Tenerife Norte approx. 4 mln. Tenerife Norte airport – rodeos (tel 922635635, www.aena.es), 10 km of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, serves as an airport for islanders – it handles some scheduled flights to Spain and the rest of the world, and basically all flights between the islands. From Tenerife Norte you can fly to virtually any island in the archipelago. Binter Canarias and Islas Airways connect you to Lanzarote (BC ok. 10 daily flights), Fuerteventura (BC ok. 6 daily flights), Great Canarię (BC ok. 15 daily flights; It's ok. 3 flights per day), La Palma (BC ok. 10 daily flights; It's ok. 7 daily flights), La Gomera (BC ok. 3 flights per day) oraz El Hierro (BC 6 daily flights). Information on the island can be obtained from the tour desk upon arrival (tel922635192; pn.-pt. 8.00-21.00, sb. i nd. 9.00-17.00).
From the airport, you can easily get a bus to Santa Cruz de Tenerife (#102, 107, 108; ok. 20 min; 1,5 €), La Laguna (#102, 107, 108), the orotava (#107 i 108) i Port of the Cniz (#102; ok. 40 min; 4,50 €). Deciding to go by bus, you have to pay attention to it, in which direction the vehicle is going – e.g.. # 107 stops at the airport twice: going from Santa Cruz to Puerto de la Cruz and on the way back. Taxi (tel922258806) to Santa Cruz it costs approx. 15 €, do La Laguny (8 €), to do Puerto de la Cruz ok. 30 €.
Tenerife Sur airport- Queen Soffa (tel922759510, www.aena.es) situated approx. 20 km north of Los Cristianos i 30 km from Playa de las Americas, basically all charter flights, most of the so-called. low-cost airlines and some scheduled flights. There is a tour desk on site (tel922392037; VII — IX pn.-pt. 9.00-19.00, sb. 9.00-12.00, X-VI pn.-pt. 9.00-21.00, sb. 10.00-13.00).
The most popular means of transport from the airport are, of course, travel agency buses, picking up holidaymakers going directly to one of the previously booked hotels. Individual tourists, however, will not stay on the ice. The airport is connected by buses to the world by public transport buses, although you have to admit, that they don't drive that often, as if it were to be wished. Line #340 commute to Puerto de la Cruz (4 calls a day; 1 at. 25 min; 8 €), line #341 from Santa Cruz de Tenerife (from 5.00 do 1.30 every hour or so; 50 min; 5 €), #487 do Los Cristianos (from 8.10 do 00.15 every hour or so; 30 min; 1,50 €) i Beach of the Americas (45 min; 1,85 €). Taxis are also available (tel922635635). For the course to Los Cristianos, the taxi driver will ask approx 20 €, do Playa las Americas ok. 25 €, of the Giants 45 C, the Santa Cruz 60 €.